By Guest Writer Pappy Enoch
Location: University of Richmond Island, Sleeping Off the New Year’s Cheer

Since Ol’ Wiggly dun given mee a (slighty used) new F-150 Ford truk fo’ Xmas, I are reeturning his favur by ritin’ a New Year’s Blob. 

In this-hear segmint o’ “In a Strange Land” (an’ in my persunul blob) I are a-gonna tell y’all how tu beekum eggspert virtool hillbillies in a fake wirld like Secund Life.  In providin’ this-hear service tu soresiety, I draws upon my eggsperienunce as a well traned linguinifist. Here goes nuffin:

Rule Wun) Don’t evur let no verbs n’ subjects agree:

Egg-sample: (city boy) I am going to the store .
(kerreckt) I are a-goin’ tu that-there store.

Rule Tu) Look back up thar at my sentunce,  n’ obbsarve how I dun changified the verb intu what the linguinifists calls a “phrasal verb”: awl yu needs tu add am the “a” befo’ the verb, or if’n yu means in the future, you says “a-fixin’ tu”

Egg-sample: (city boy) It will rain soon.
(kerreckt) I tells yu whut, ol’ son, it are a-fixin’ tu rain rite soon.

Rule Tree) Yu am almost thar! Yu kin see how it are dun now. 

Final fixerments include a-changin’ the spellin’ frum time tu time tu keep thangs intermerestin’, gitten rid o’ egg-straineos letters, n’ addin’ sum letturs, funny sounds, even hole silly-bulls to make the sound kum out rite.

Egg-sample: (city boy) My family is from Richmond.
(kerreckt): My famberly are frum that-thar big ol’ town name o’ Richmound.

Finul Rule) I encourage ya’ll tu do sum ree-search on this-hear topick in ordur tu figger out hillbilly slang.  Yu check out whut ol’ Buddy Don Duncan sez thar as a start tu speakin’ good Inglish.

Then yu tu kin join mee in takin’ ovur the fake wirld o’ Secund Life so as we kin make it a less sirius n’ mo’ fun-time place fo’ awl the avamaters (ersphehully purty gal avamaters n’ mee).

Happy New Year now, yu here?

Be sure to check the “In a Strange Land” Archive for old posts

Let me think about it….
Di

Yu dun fine, ma’am. Furst-rate hill gal in mah book.

Will yu marry mee?

Howdy Pappy - I am a-fixin’ to bergin my hillbilly linguimistations (gud one huh?). I am a-hopin’ more gud fokes suchin as ourselfs wll pik ‘em up sum good ole boy languamage an have mo fun in SL!!
(how’d I du??)
XXOO
Dianna

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