Comments | shake_the_stars: Way Deep Down South, Yo, We Play This Game

shake_the_stars

Way Deep Down South, Yo, We Play This Game

May 01, 2010 00:15

I have nothing constructive, insightful, or otherwise apropos to say, so here, have this meme I ganked from a_t_rain.

( Fun with Dialectology! )

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samanosukesgirl May 1 2010, 05:27:32 UTC

The piece of furniture that seats three people:

Chesterfield.

shake_the_stars May 1 2010, 05:32:40 UTC

Also "settee", and "divan".

samanosukesgirl May 1 2010, 05:33:33 UTC

Or, "a drunk's haven".

shake_the_stars May 1 2010, 05:36:19 UTC

Or "bed" if you're the lolmom.

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duokinneas May 2 2010, 00:37:20 UTC

15.) The little insect that curls up into a ball:

I think this is referring to what I call sow bugs or roly-polies. Little segmented gray bugs that look like miniature worms with extra legs. If you bump them with the toe of your shoe or your finger, they roll up into a ball. Which is also how they look when they die, if you don't totally squash them.

Or, y'know, one of these. ^^6 My explanation kinda sucked, now that I think about it.

shake_the_stars May 2 2010, 02:23:52 UTC

After I checked the dialect map linked from Wikipedia, the predominant name in this area seems to be either "pillbug" or "roly-poly". Huh. I never noticed those, though I am sure we have them in Indiana.

We also have CICADAS OF DOOOOOOOM OH FUCK RUNRUNRUNRUN THEY'RE COMING AFTER YOU!!!!11!!!oneone!!!!1!, but I think those are called cicadas wherever you go, and also we only have them every seventeen years.

duokinneas May 2 2010, 04:33:02 UTC

I only ever noticed them because my brother and I were the messed-up, earthworm-dissecting kids who tried various methods to get the roly-polies to curl up. The older I get, the less attention I pay to little crawling critters unless they're doing something to directly offend me. It's probably better that way...

...because as a kid, the one time I saw cidada shells, I was panicked and I hated them. This was in Kansas, mind. We don't have cicadas in Idaho, and if we do, I've never heard nor seen one. Maybe it's never been the right year. But OH MY GOD. CICADAS. I hate them! I totally would run! They're gross! **squirms**

shake_the_stars May 2 2010, 04:47:20 UTC

H was a rotten little kid who did things like drop things on stag beetles to see how long it would take to crack their shells and try to put cicadas into their cast-off shells. He said once of his misspent youth, "I'm sure I'll be VIP in Hell." Being of a slightly more altruistic cast (oh, how the tables turned when we grew up), I almost discovered a mummy and then didn't. (Have I told you that story? I don't remember ( ... )