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Forum: Rants Topic: Central Wisconsin started by: ic0n0 Posted by ic0n0 on May 20 2002,01:44
I just spent the weekend in bountiful central Wisconsin, land of cranberry bogs and trees. I was visiting my brother’s girlfriend’s family (completed I know) but I was real surprised to hear the degrees of the “northern” accent I found it quite amusing. I was just waiting for someone to say, “Hay der city boy we don’t need your big city learning” I cannot help what I find funny. I had suppressed my laughter for 3 hours as I was introduced to some of her family, 4 guys with huge mullets and their wives with huge upward spiraling hair. Almost everyone had some kind of NASCAR related logo on an article of clothing. I was just shocked at the ruralness in the local speech, I must have stuck out like a sore thumb, I say dinner instead of supper, soda instead of pop, hey instead of hay, there instead of der, because instead of cuz, etc. etc. It’s a good thing I didn’t get into any political arguments whilst I was there, I might have been lynched.
Posted by Beastie Dr on May 20 2002,03:15
Jesus, you'd be surprised how fast the degree of "hick-ness" goes up outside of urban Milwaukee. Even in Mequon. And, yes, a political argument would have gotten you lynched, unless you were around Madison. The NASCAR symbol, for me, is equivalent with a sign that says "RUN!" I have never met anyone intelligent (or liberal, even moderate...hmmm...) who owns NASCAR clothing.
Posted by ic0n0 on May 20 2002,03:37
Thank the forces that be I do not talk like that, I place it on 5 successive generations of college degrees. Beastie I grew up in Hartland you know where that is? The accent of the rural Wisconsinite is ridicules, for outside observers the accent is not like the accents in Fargo it’s more like the guys on the old S.N.L skit at the Chicago bar, DA BEARS! Except in Wisconsin it’s the packers. Posted by Beastie Dr on May 20 2002,04:45
Ah, yes, Hartland. When I happen to pass through there, I keep driving. Partly because there's nothing worth seeing there, partly because I'm scared of the people who inhabit rural areas. Thankfully, I've never lived more than 5 miles from downtown. I live in Shorewood now, and before I lived on Weil + Wright (now THAT'S urban- we left when the drive-bys got too close). I cannot fathom living farther than 15 minutes from a mall.
Posted by Beldurin on May 20 2002,07:07
Indiana's almost as bad...we don't have the silly accent, but we do have ppl that say things like "I'm gunna go warsh my car." Gahh!!...where's my gun? You're too stupid to be allowed to breed!
Posted by ic0n0 on May 20 2002,10:29
Indiana has a silly accent too, ive been there a few times. I am not saying that wisconsin is any better but it seems to me to be a rural vs. urban thing. Posted by veistran on May 20 2002,18:33
one of my dad's sisters and his mother live in rural indiana (not incredibly rural, but pretty damn rural) and I despise going to visit them because they are such hicks. Posted by Nikita on May 20 2002,18:44
some guy I know (from Philly?) pronounces "water" as "w00ter" ... drives me into epileptic fits!
Posted by Wolfguard on May 20 2002,18:49
just wait till he goes to the ackamee (acme) to get his wooter
Posted by BlackFlag on May 20 2002,19:38
Wah-derWuh-ter Wud-der There's about a dozzen pronunciations of the word 'water' in philly. My friend Bryan can tell you every neighborhood you've lived in based on how you pronounce water. How philadelphians can detect non-philadelphians: ask them to pronounce "Roosevelt boulevard." Posted by Beldurin on May 21 2002,00:23
really, a whole dozzen of them? |