What’s troubling you

[All U Get]

Hi guys,

Grab a drink and listen. We have been doing some repairs and maintenance between Dr. visits and decided to do a quick cruise Downeast. So off we go to Vinalhaven then Burnt Coat Harbor. It has been a while since we picked up a mooring other than ours so my wife missed on the first pass but we got it tied and then off to the little market. When we got back on the boat I suggested lobster from the Coop and we dinghied over. We had a good meal and I figured everything is fine. Wrong.

The next morning my wife was still in the mood so I had to ask, “What’s wrong”.

They’re not using proper grammar.

Well kick me in the butt and call me stupid but I missed the total observation. “Who and when “. “The store and lobster coop, they used the wrong verbiage”. I could sense the boat sinking below my feet so I just nodded thoughtfully. I told my wife to call her friend and have a talk.

Next morning we’re off and after a few hours we hear a distress call, a sailboat caught a lobster buoy and was drifting towards some rocks. The woman talking with the USCG was stressed and wanted help immediately. We noticed that it was a boat that had moored next to us the night before. After many exchanges and instructions the woman replied “Roger that “.

And I said “Isn’t that a dangling participle?

I didn’t think I would need fleece in the middle of August but the icy stare I got could freeze up Penobscot Bay. So if you’re cruising south this year and think you see a boat with frost on the deck, that’s us.

 

[justsomeguy]

The next morning my wife was still in the mood so I had to ask, “What’s wrong”.

On my boat, if she's "in the mood", I don't question nothin'!

Oops...

 

[jssailem]

On my boat, if she's "in the mood"

I'm probably on the wrong boat.

 

[Benny17441]

Don't complain, you are just lucky to be alive.

 

[rgranger]

Well that is unfortunate....

Sunday night, I stopped into a Wendy's with my family. I ordered the new avocado salad and my wife and daughter each ordered a combo. The girl behind the counter gave us three cups to take to the soda fountain. I said to the girl...

"You gave us an extra cup. I did not order a drink"

To which the girl replied

"Seniors get free drinks"

If cold stares could kill, I'd be in jail right now for that poor child's death.... and if you could laugh yourself to death, my wife would also be a goner.

 

[rgranger]

Hey! I bought some beer at the dollar tree tonight and the girl carded me

Too bad my wife was not there to witness that!

 

[All U Get]

OK, I dug a little deeper. The issue was a lobster sign that said ''Them's good eaten'' or something like that. Anyhow, while I was picking up the lobsters from the coop sorter, my wife was listening to several young men discussing their catch. The jargon was local and I'm sure they weren't expecting the school marm overhearing their conversation. But as always it doesn't come out until we're miles away and I got to connect the dots. Kinda like Archie Bunker listening to Edith. Who would have thought this all started when we started sailing last week that I didn't know all my wife's friends were doing a 'wine and movie' get together and I broke it all up.

 

[agprice22]

Language lives. We cannot take offense, or we are living a cognitive delusion, believing things “should” or “should not” be the way only we think is proper. Common sense does not exist because there has never been a moment when “everyone” actually knows or agrees.
I deal with these sources of suffering daily with patients. I tell them they are using these ideas to suffer. Then I tell them they are welcome to suffer as long as they want! They laugh at how ludicrous that sounds, and they ask how to be happy. Then I tell them: if the way you see something causes you to suffer, find a way of seeing it that frees you to return to happiness. Change your perspective.

Do not tell your wife this. She will hate you.

 

[FDL S2]

There is a local radio commercial that expounds the rewards at a convenience store chain if you have a rewards card and the voiceover guy says "don't got a rewards card? Just sign up, it's free at any store." This horrible spoken grammar drives me nuts every time I hear it. I understand it's our local dialect and how people speak, but as a voiceover it just bothers me.
ETA my minor was English

 

[Meriachee]

Really?
Y'all (did I do that right?) gotta unnerstand that there are more important (impotent) things to get chilly over. Eh?

 

[PotomacDaysailer]

[...]
Y'all (did I do that right?) [...]

Yep.

 

[TomY]

People that live on Vinalhaven tell us, in a lot of ways, it's still the Wild West out there. The law is on the mainland, an hour away. Kids drop out of school and go into fishing. It's a world away just a half a dozen miles out at sea.

What bothers me more than the bad grammer, is dropping the "G". I hear educated announcers on a local radio station do that all the time. "Just sayin"

Then again, I enjoy hearing about "porchin' season" out on the islands. That begins after Labor Day when the natives take coolers and sit on the big porches of the vacant summer homes, and drink their bee-yah.

 

[All U Get]

Really?
Y'all (did I do that right?) gotta unnerstand that there are more important (impotent) things to get chilly over. Eh?

Yep, thirty days and we start heading south again. Here south of the line the refrigerators have two doors. Behind the right door you see wine bottles with cheese that I can't pronounce the name of, and salad dressing of many varieties. The left door has pickles, hot sauce, and sour milk. There's also something fuzzy in the corner that will get thrown out soon. My side is the left, of course, and soon it will be empty again.

Then I tell them: if the way you see something causes you to suffer, find a way of seeing it that frees you to return to happiness. Change your perspective.

Change of latitude, I think that's it, until we get going and meet up with the other cruisers. We have wine and cheese on the calendar for tomorrow, maybe I'll quote you as a fellow academic.

 

[All U Get]

Then again, I enjoy hearing about "porchin' season" out on the islands. That begins after Labor Day when the natives take coolers and sit on the big porches of the vacant summer homes, and drink their bee-yah.

Bingo... That's what we heard at the little store on Swan's Island. I missed it. ''Porchin' season'' is coming a few weeks.

 

[FDL S2]

Y'all, ain't, unnerstand, gotta, etc. none of those bother me, but for some reason "don't gotta" in that sentence does. I never said it was rational.

 

[Brian D]

Really?
Y'all (did I do that right?) ...

No, my understanding is "y'all" is singular and "ah y'all" is plural. From what I understand. I learned Southern when I lived n Virginia. But living in California, "dude" is singular and "dude" is plural. Go figure.

 

[kappykaplan]

"ah y'all" is plural

It's actually all y'all . ..

 

[agprice22]

My major was English. Poor grammar and vernacular bothered me, but my training in literature, Old English, Jewish, and Southern American, ... well, it lern’t me good!
I admit my children would not allow me to see their college papers. They learned I was too exacting on their High School papers! What can I say. I know all the comma rules, and I expected them to follow them.

 

[justsomeguy]

What can I say.

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And while I'm there...

What’s troubling you

 

[rgranger]

Ah! The finer points of y’all. In my house we have gone a bit overboard on the use of y’all and have codefied several variants. For example, the phrase “ I thought all of you would have eatened by now”. Becomes “ I thought y’all’d’ve eaten.”

I remember a time when my son called me from college to tell me that his next door neighbor in the dorm (a kid from New Jersey) had stuck his head in my son’s room to say “I have surrendered to the y’all”