Re: RC: Tennessee stud

["Truman Prevatt, Ph.D." <truman.prevatt@netsrq.com>]

Yep and if you went into the Tennessee valley speaking the perfect
Queens english, no one would understand a word you were saying.  Heck I
remember living there as a kid and some guy moved down from the East
someplace and it took several years to teach him to talk right :-).

R

CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 4/15/00 10:39:54 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> fasterhorses@gilanet.com writes:
> 
> << >A little horse colt playing round the door...
>  >And the Tennessee stud loves the Tennessee mare
> 
>  Here's a great example of what I was talking about!
>  Translation:
> 
>  A male foal playing around the door...
>  The Tennessee stallion loves the Tennessee mare >>
> 
> Yep.  And as with a great deal of colloquial language, it needs some
> understanding of the local language idiosyncracies to be understood on a
> universal level.  I guess that's my point--while there is nothing "wrong"
> with colorful and poetic language, the "correct" language is far better to
> use if one wants to be accurately understood by a varied audience.
> 
> Heidi
> 
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Truman Prevatt
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