The Nonfiction Book Club

[MadMojoMonkey]

Nearly all of my non-fiction research is done online anymore.

I'm so glad you're teaching physics, not English.

I'm not 100% with commas, but other than that, it's a fine sentence.

Maybe a Missouri colloquialism in the use of anymore, though. Replace with "lately" if you like.

[Poopadoop]

I'm not 100% with commas, but other than that, it's a fine sentence.

Maybe a Missouri colloquialism in the use of anymore, though. Replace with "lately" if you like.

I'm sure Ong is dying to tell you this first, but it's the conjunction of the present tense 'is' with the past tense 'anymore' (meaning 'lately') that's the main issue.

E.g., you wouldn't say "She is talking a lot more with her friend Joe lately." it should be "She has been..."

Gotta keep the same verb tense in the same sentence.

[Poopadoop]

Maybe a Missouri colloquialism in the use of anymore, though. Replace with "lately" if you like.

Dialects are fucked.

When I lived in Pennsylvania people used to say things like "My cars needs washed." and they pronounced washed as 'worshed'.

Where I grew up in Southern Alberta, we would call the river valley the 'riverbottom' which sounds like you're describing a place under water.

[OngBonga]

Dialects are fucked.

Have you visited the Midlands? The area is largely made up of two types of people... Brummies and Yam Yams (I'm a Brummie). The Brummies, most people are familiar with the accent. Yam Yams sound similar, but they also say stupid things, like instead of saying "are you going out?", it's "am yow going out?". Hence, Yam Yams.

Brummie - Yam Yam

"It wasn't me" - "It wor me"
"Are you" - "Am yow"
"I didn't" - "I day"
"That's yours" - "That's yorn"

Honestly, I grew up with Yam Yams and still I struggle to understand what the fuck they're saying.

[Poopadoop]

Have you visited the Midlands? The area is largely made up of two types of people... Brummies and Yam Yams (I'm a Brummie). The Brummies, most people are familiar with the accent. Yam Yams sound similar, but they also say stupid things, like instead of saying "are you going out?", it's "am yow going out?". Hence, Yam Yams.

Brummie - Yam Yam

"It wasn't me" - "It wor me"
"Are you" - "Am yow"
"I didn't" - "I day"
"That's yours" - "That's yorn"

Honestly, I grew up with Yam Yams and still I struggle to understand what the fuck they're saying.

Where I grew up was about 50 miles from the US border. Our accent was broadly consistent with a Canadian accent in general, which I think is broadly consistent with the accent you would find in the US midwest (I mean accent in terms of pronounciation, not dialect or idiom, which does differ from the US in some fairly minor ways).

However, if you traveled to within about 15 miles of the border from where I lived, suddenly people started talking with western "cowboy" accents, like you would hear in Montana (the other side of the border), even though you were still in Canada. I never understood that.

[Poopadoop]

My favourite dialect story comes from when I studied in Oxford for a year. On about my third day there, I was walking down the street when I saw a woman on a bike with a baby about 2 years old in the baby seat.

The kid had ice cream all over his face, and in this super-posh accent he said "Mummy, wipe my face." She replied "I can't, we're on a bike." And his reply was (I kid you not) "Wipe my face, I say!"

I almost died.

[BananaStand]

My favourite dialect story comes from when I studied in Oxford for a year. On about my third day there, I was walking down the street when I saw a woman on a bike with a baby about 2 years old in the baby seat.

The kid had ice cream all over his face, and in this super-posh accent he said "Mummy, wipe my face." She replied "I can't, we're on a bike." And his reply was (I kid you not) "Wipe my face, I say!"

Are you sure you weren't just watching Family Guy?

[OngBonga]

Maybe a Missouri colloquialism in the use of anymore, though. Replace with "lately" if you like.

Yeah "anymore" is incorrect, though if it's a local dialect thing I'll let it pass.

Replacing "anymore" with "lately" makes it better, also "presently" or "currently". Better still, drop the word "anymore" completely, and don't replace it.