Not quite Jen - I think 30% slipped over my head. Now if you used an Ausie slang book maybe.

LOL BigK, yes, there were quite a few kiwisms in there. As I was typing it I was thinking "Who talks like this???? Nobody I know lol"

We "across the ditch cousins" do share quite a lot of slang though don't we and always have.

BTW BetrayedCajun, Starfish is from where you're from. She calls everyone chere. I LOVE it.

For sure Jen

BC

About a two maybe three beer trip. And I wanna go to Pat's ...

Larry

I suspect that those who need spell checking the most are the least likely to use it.

Everywhere in Texas is a 2 or 3 beer trip. That could mean going to the gas station down the road.

My STBX is from San Angelo. BIL is in Midland, he's the sports editer for the paper. I also have an Uncle in San Angelo and a very good friend that owns the Scrub Pub and a ranch in Miles. We banged up my truck pretty good bouncing off Mesquite trees at 3 in the morning after boiling 3 sacks down at the TANK.

I'll be going that way fairly soon. My good friends just had a baby and I'm dying to get out there.

I actually lived there myself for a year. That's how I met STBX. I worked for Delta back then.

Oh...you talking about Pat O's...you talking about the piano bar....you talking about singing David Allen Coe tunes at the top of your lungs at 2 in the morning?

I think she is in Texas now so it should be "Yall chere".

Yep, collecting everybody's sewage.


and chicken wings

Tu ma fait crier mon frere.

Pat O's is a fun place but new compared to Pat's over in Henderson (1948). Best seafood/swampfood in the world. I went there before he (Pat Huval) built the bad imitation of the Arc de Triumph. I guess they now have another one in Lake Charles. Pat's is the original and inspiration for all sorts of good and bad seafood joints, including Landry's and Papadeaux as good ones.

Have you given the horse a second coat yet?

Larry

You're shouting I am your fat brother? I better cut back on those wings and beer.

Brother in fact, not fat. Ola!

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Larry

you make me cry, my brother

you both missed it

Do not load that google spell checker it slows down your process'.

If you are really worried about spelling just leave word open. Type up your response there. Hit spell check then copy and paste here.

It will catch Grammer errors as well.

I however have perfect spelling.

Eye no ewe could two if ewe try.

I don't disagree with keeping a word processor open and cutting and pasting from it although I am suspicious of Word. I hate Word. And not everyone can afford it.

But I see no way for Google spell check to do anything to slow you down since it doesn't activate until you left click the appropriate places. In fact, you can bring up task manager and confirm that statement in the processes window.

Er, did you type your response in Word? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Larry

crier = shout, scream or cry. That's why I didn't pick up on it since cry is old usage, apparently. Hey, come to think of it, isn't Acadiana really Court French from sometime back? Don't Frenchmen from France have an attack of the vapors when they hear it today?

Larry

Yes they do. Since we are 400 years removed from France and about 240 years removed from Canada our French is a tad dated. It's also about 20% Indian. When we arrived in Canada and also in Louisiana we couldn't exactly call the mother land and ask what to call things we'd never seen before. Not to mention modern inventions since we became American. We were also under Spanish rule for a while and also have heavy German and African influences.

So Cajun really has become it's own language and culture. That's why it's so unique.

Cajun's were also very isolated, so different parts of the state use words and phrases very differently. Sometimes neighboring communities get confused talking to each other.

My mom's first language was French. She's from Pointe-Aux-Chene, La. When she comes visit in Lafayette she laughs alot listening to the French stations on the radio. She understands them perfectly, but the language is so different. Kind of like Americans talking to the British or Australians.

So there's your Cajun lesson for the day.

Next week - Boudin

Sorry frog-

The English teacher in me can't let this one alone:

It's grammar, not grammer. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

BC


Oh! You have SEEN a Frenchman have an attack of the vapors, have you. It is one of the funnier events in the known universe. Kinda a mix between Jerry Lewis and Scarlett O'Hara, but you gotta see it to believe it.

I know where Pointe-Aux-Chene Bayou is, but not the town.

Larry



Larry

Not necessarily...considering there was a spelling error in the initial post that started this thread...I'm surprised no one has noticed it...



Hint: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/precedure