Re: [OT] Regional Idiom
From: Indy <kochte@s...>
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 12:19:07 -0400
Subject: Re: [OT] Regional Idiom
"laserlight@quixnet.net" wrote:
>
> >Back in college an online debate over "soda" vs. "pop" lasted years
and
> >threatened to crash the servers.
>
> To wrench this back onto topic, I was thinking about Brother Jedidiah
> Quesinberry, who definitely has his own distinctive Appalachian idiom
and
> would have appeared in FMA Sheep I if any such event had ever happened
> (which it didn't). This in turn brought to mind all those Yet Another
> Confederate States In Space clones. We sometimes see FT ships for
them,
> but I don't recall seeing any SG organizations for them.
> So let's assume a population of deer/possum/coon hunters and wannabe
> Winston Cup drivers, and add reverence for General Robert E Lee, JEB
> Stuart, Stonewall Jackson, and Moseby's Raiders. Mix in a touch of
desire
> to be different from the NAC and former US. What do you get?
Chris DeBoe or Jerry Han, not sure which.
Mk