tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post3917349788759078735..comments2024-02-21T12:11:32.886-05:00Comments on Bats Left/Throws Right: I Seen It On Teevee *, Vol. IJames Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-4425337607322850702009-07-16T04:15:23.332-04:002009-07-16T04:15:23.332-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.CMikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13481861530761114492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-44388980629475116632009-07-15T23:43:05.739-04:002009-07-15T23:43:05.739-04:00Thank you. Rivers is the poor man's Phylllis D...Thank you. Rivers is the poor man's Phylllis Diller without the self-esteem, and in a perfect world Maher would be fielding heckling from weightlifters on Long Island.<br /><br />Unlike Maher, I'd prefer not to go to hell (at least because I deserved it), so I won't add "in the parking lot"Juliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09652601001680591056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-1217826694235382282009-07-15T21:55:56.813-04:002009-07-15T21:55:56.813-04:00Good Grimm! I haven't really thought about Who...Good Grimm! I haven't really thought about Whorf and Sapir in decades. (Sounds like the name of a law firm now -- slip and fall, mesothelioma, etc. Add "hypothesis" and it sounds like something from primal Star Trek.) I used to assume that people had sliding dialects, ie, they used formal English in business and in writing and were less rigid about subject/verb agreement and verb Grace Nearinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07414685202654408290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-36905842475596441082009-07-15T14:26:54.913-04:002009-07-15T14:26:54.913-04:00Nice take on Maher, DR. I always did despise that...Nice take on Maher, DR. I always did despise that smug little prick.Ivan G Shreve Jrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04067177808320053382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-4946343019596508912009-07-15T14:17:35.324-04:002009-07-15T14:17:35.324-04:00"Seen" is "done seen" in more ..."Seen" is "done seen" in more formal Midwestern speech.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-85746336904061803452009-07-15T13:04:01.486-04:002009-07-15T13:04:01.486-04:00There is something remarkably odd about this "...There is something remarkably odd about this "seen" thing. I come from a middle class family, all but one of whom had at least a year or so of college if not a graduate degree, and we grew up speaking relatively proper American english. Yet one of my sisters speaks Okie english, and she's not being sarcastic or ironic; this is her understanding of modern grammar. <br /><br />StringonaSticknoreply@blogger.com