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Much is made of the nasal tone of the residents, but what no one speaks to is the strange drawing out of those most banal words, a bellwether of regionalism.

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    • #signage
  • 7 months ago
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No to this.

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  • 7 months ago
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def:

brunch

   [bruhnch] Show IPA
noun

“It’s not quite breakfast, it’s not quite lunch, but it comes with a slice of cantaloupe at the end.

Origin:
1895–1900; br(eakfast)  + (l)unch
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    • #simpsons
    • #brunch
  • 11 months ago
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Hecho en Estados Unidos de América.

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  • 1 year ago
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Hey tough guy, call it what you want, just not to my face.

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    • #don't call it Frisco
  • 1 year ago
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For this, you should pay me.

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  • 1 year ago
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You’re so dramatic sometimes.

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    • #underfoot
  • 1 year ago
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I can’t wait to mutually be intelligible with our uplifting and heroic messages.

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    • #screen shot
  • 1 year ago
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I’d call it as gender neutral, but if you want to go ahead and make it masculine, you’re going to have a helluva time explaining it to the linguists.

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The name of the part of your brain responsible for your tripping over nothing. 

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  • 2 years ago
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Congratulations are in order

for that mighty historical lexicographer, Burrito Justice.
We harbor no such hopes for anyone ever getting the MittelHaight/LoWeAd memo.  And that’s just as well.

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  • 2 years ago
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Use of Z where an S would suffice, the hallmark of that which is “street.”  The typing of “street” with quotations being the hallmark of that which is “white.”

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Thank you, United States Post Office, for making us feel extraordinarily awkward for requesting stamps. 

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  • 2 years ago
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How’s that learning Japanese thing going?

Waga tamoto, kyo kawa kereba, wabishisa no chigura no kaya mo, wasurarenubeshi.

“Now that my sleeve has dried today, I am sure I can forget the many pains I have suffered.”

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  • 2 years ago
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Can we all agree that, in order to freshen the argument, we should substitute “beatnik” for “hipster” in all future invectives?  I thank you in advance for giving up your tired arguments. 
Hereafter, also refer to “weed” as “tea;” squares are squares and there are no substitutions. 

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  • 2 years ago
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