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02-23-2008, 10:07 AM | #1 |
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again i wish i could purge threads but this is the best i can do. Last edited by antgirl1; 08-20-2023 at 11:07 PM. |
02-23-2008, 11:35 AM | #2 |
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I fixed the typo in the title. Yeah I *hate* when I make a typo in a title on another vBulletin, you can't fix it and it makes you feel stupid. I wish more mods would go ahead and fix those for people, especially when asked. But apparently most of them don't think its necessary. But I felt your pain.
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02-23-2008, 11:48 AM | #3 | |
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02-23-2008, 11:57 AM | #4 |
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Um...if the original poster wants you to. You don't need to worry about it if they don't seem to care. Why, did I refuse to do it once for someone? If I did I'm sorry. Unless it was because the typo was really, really amusing...Or the poster was annoying.
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02-23-2008, 12:04 PM | #5 |
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Actually, I was considering an extended trip to the Spam section tonight, gleefully correcting capitalization and turning "peple" into "people".
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03-03-2008, 02:09 AM | #6 |
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So far pretty good, though I've got one little suggestion; in nearly half a century of living here, having traveled to every corner of the state, and been around children of various racial and socio-economic backgrounds, I've never, not once-heard a child in South Carolina refer to his/her female parent as "Mom". Most kids here, regardless of their background, call their female parent "Mama", although some still use "Ma", and a few of the modern smart-alecky kids will call their mother by her actual name out of disrespect, but never "Mom".
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03-03-2008, 07:01 AM | #7 |
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Very good story, and I like the setting. I was stationed in Charleston at the Naval station. I know that and the weapons station up the Cooper River are closed down now. We rented a house out in Goose Creek. This story bring back some memories there.
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Still, though, the Low Country dialect heard in and around the Charleston area is very different from a real Southern accent, due to the huge numbers of cultures that went into that particular ethnic gumbo. The "Geechee" dialect is more properly classified as a "Creole" dialect, actually, with a lot of influence from West African, Caribbean and French languages and cultures. One thing to keep in mind as you write is the deeply-rooted cultural concept of family. In Southern culture, but especially in the African-American Southern culture, the only thing stronger and more important than family was one's religious faith. Sorta like the Hawaiian concept of "O'hana", once you're accepted as a family member, whether or not you're related in any way, you're family for life. I really don't think Jordan would ever have had any reason to fear that his mama would have objected to his new Imaginary Friend. After her initial shock at seeing this tall red being wore off, she would have simply accepted him as if he were just another one of her kids-a really, really TALL kid, and Wilt most likely would have been expected to call her "Mama", too. She in turn most likely would have referred to him in the presence of company as her "baby", 10-feet tall or not, simply because he was the youngest. That's just how things are, or at least, how they were 32 years ago. A lot has changed, and not for the better, since then, with gangs and drugs and the break-down of that sense of family taking hold since that time. Still, when I got lost in the worst part of the Charleston ghetto(and that's what it is, an old inner-city ghetto)last March, the only reliable directions I got were from a couple of Crips, who were showing off their "colors", leaving no doubt that's what they were, and this is probably the only city where even the GANGSTAS can be helpful and polite! pitbulllady |
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