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Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Ghetto Hikes

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I'm 28.  I have a full time job leading urban kids
on nature hikes. I simply write down shit they say.
ghettohike@gmail.com

 

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                           "Hey!
                          Somebody gimme some toast.
              This tree leakin' Smuckers out the side."
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     Tim W
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5 comments:

  1. DougM2/1/12, 2:05 AM

    These're mine, get them other Smuckers.
    (not actually foul language)

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  2. Rodger the Real King of France2/1/12, 6:29 AM

    oooooooooooooh
    yur fired Doug :)

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  3. Anonymous2/1/12, 9:35 AM

    Doug, I believe you meant to say, "Deys mine...".

    Casca (Certified Ebonics interpr4tor)

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  4. DougM2/1/12, 11:10 AM

    Casca, I don't do "Ebonics."
    I often do my whatchacall village hardware-store feller here in So-Central NC. It's just schtick, mainly as self-entertainment or emphasis.
    Living in rural North Yorkshire, UK, taught me to love local manners of speech. It's like traveling the World by ear. Some sound delicious to me, and some sound downright ugly, but most of them are interesting.
    Nowthcalinian may not be the prettiest patois; but it's slightly melodic, earthy, unapologetic, and intelligible (I divide it into four localisms: mountain, sandhills, coastal, and urban).
    Suburban and rural folks of color around here usually speak a pleasant, rounder style of Nowthcalinian than white folk (history bein' what it is).
    City-trash dialects (what I call "Urbonics," because it includes all races) just irritate the bejeezus out'a me.

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  5. Kristophr2/1/12, 12:46 PM

    DougM: languages change. Can't be helped.

    Cockney ( and by extension, nearly all Australian speech today ) was British 19th Century Urbonics.

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