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My Linguistics teacher is starting an online blog. I have to go check it out later. My teacher's pretty cool (and nice!); I think I'm going to take his poetry class next year for spare credits.

I told a joke in that class today, while we were discussing how people try to enforce change on language or language rules, in this instance about ending a sentence with a preposition. They all laughed at my joke. I'd heard it from my mother-- like most language jokes it works best when spoken aloud, with appropriate accents/inflections.

Two women were sitting beside each other on an airplane.
The woman next to the window turned to the one beside her, and said charmingly in a Southern accent:
"So, where y'all from?"
The other woman turned her head and looked at her and said quietly:
"I am from a place where you are taught not to end a sentence with a preposition."
The woman next to the window thought about this for a moment. Then she gave the other woman her best smile, and said sweetly:
"So, where y'all from, bitch?"

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

:g: I loved it too. It works much better when spoken aloud-- make sure you say "y'all", and give a half-beat before "bitch" (which is said clearly and with the vocal equivalent of italics).

[saava.livejournal.com]

Oh! Oh! Like, "Out for a walk, bitch.