rrgirl on Let’s drop the big one and see what happens:
DP is from tornado country, not the snow belt. I hope he brought his long gutcheez.
Pittsburgh English
Pittsburgheseok, I listened to DP today. he’s at the Clevelander Hotel interviewing football players…I’m feeling about as bright as a half-frozen walleye with a mouthful of shiney plastic and hooks.
Tornado country?
You’ve got me there. Have lately been missing parts of the live broadcast and trying to fill in the gaps with the podcasts.
I cannot see how “underwear” morphs into “gutcheez.” Perhaps if one uses BabelFish to translate from English to Russian to Japanese to Portuguese to Dutch to Korean to Greek and then back to English?
One of my favorite tv shows of all time (no, not “American Idol”) is The Story of English. It was interesting listening to people in different American regions speak and have to read the subtitles because I had no idea what they were saying.
I liked the language bit DP did on the show yesterday, translating “useful” phrases from English into Spanish for Super Bowl fans who are in Miami for the week: “Which way is the nude beach?” I wonder what Mrs. Patrick thinks about that one. A good phrase for a baseball fan — or GM — down in the Miami area would be “Can you tell me where to find a left-handed Cuban defector with a 98-mph fastball?”
You don’t care for football? Take heart: right after the Super Bowl ends attention will shift to NCAA basketball and March Madness. And, more important to me, spring training.
I like to play “guess the regional accent.” DP flaunts his twang. I had him from west/southwestern Ohio before I’d read his bio. that’s an easy one, and it’s what I meant about tornado country. he has a wonderful ear for mimicry, though, and I’d guess he could drop the plainsman voice if he wanted to (David Letterman got rid of his twang.) KO seems a little timid with regional speech – he plays with inflections (Chicago, Texas, Joisey) but I like to listen to him play with tone and volume and characters. wouldn’t it be fun to hear his genuine regional voice? and, count me among those who would listen to him read the phone book.
so I don’t try to follow the sports coverage. I love to listen to their voices. and since they have something else to say pretty often…that’s what I’m smiling about most afternoons.
the Pittsburgh dialect is hard to imitate and most people wouldn’t recognize it unless they’d been to the Mon Valley; Meryl Streep, Robert DeNiro and Christopher Walken didn’t bother with it. huh. isn’t Clairton Bill Cowher’s hometown? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Deer_Hunter
Comment by rrgirl — 2 February 2007, Friday @ 00:45:34 |