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[dean_m]

Brother Paul,
 
I think I have to agree with you about having it in a private venue.  I think it would be more productive too.  Plus we get to choose that bee-ah and the wine.
Paul you are always welcome to stay at my place.  Your only expense would be the plane ticket over.  
Congratulations on your new found employment too!!!
 
Talk soon,
 
Dino the artist formerly known as

[jet_powers]

Bro Paul TBO,
 
You've got the Bostonian accent almost right! You only drop the R at the end of a word and add an AH wherever else it appears, as in the famous quote,  You can pahk the cah in Hahvahd yahd and put a quahtah in the metah. There is also a curious twist I'm not sure the native realize they do. When a word ends with an A they tend to replace it with ER as in, Linder bought a new cah. It's a Honder. She drove it to Florider with Petah. And yet it's still called English....
 
JP
 
PS- Oh yeah, so sometime in April ANEC brothers?

[dean_m]

Let's all through out some dates and see what works for everyone.  I don't have my book in front of me right now but I'll check when I get home tonight.
 
Peace,
Dino

[cdf]

All this Bos-talk is makin' my ears homesick.
 
Br. Paul TBO,  since you went to the trouble of learning the language, you really gotta go there ;-)
 
What great forum, on this and other threads not only have I read about music and instruments today, but economics, linguistics and physics as well ;-)

[David Houck]

Speaking of dialects.  In the summer of '72 I went on a road trip.  Back then, lots of people still hitchhiked in the US.  I had an old van and picked up a number of hitchhikers.  We were driving through New York City and picked up two hitchers from Brooklyn.  I didn't understand a thing they said; but there was a guy from Jersey with me and he translated.  And yet, as JP said, it was still English.

[elzie]

April works for me. Dino, you pick the date that's convenient for you and let us know! Will it be just us bass players or is family welcome? Day or night? etc......
 
Since you have the kids, we can plan around your schedule  Either way, it will be fun and I am looking forward to it! Maybe I'll have to brew some beer for it.....
 
 
Paul II

[bracheen]

Ya'll lost me with the dialect.  I'm used to droppin' the g from words.  I don't reckon I've had to change a R to an AH.  
Learn somethin' new every day here, dontcha?  
I'm learnin' Flemmish, Elvish, Yorkish (?), and now I'm fixin' to start on Bostonish.  
 
Sam
 
(Message edited by bracheen on March 06, 2004)

[elzie]

Sam, what you call Bostonish we call propa English;)
 
 
Paul The English Majah

[palembic]

Brother Sam,
 
at my new workspot (well ...for the next 6 months) there is a girl singing in a Choir doing songs from The Lord Of The Ring. Well ...it is a kind of Musical I think where new songs were written for. She complained about the weird laguage she has to learn by heart. When she brought a piece of sheetmusic (Danno it was good music LOL) I saw it was written in ...Elvish!
I said to here that there were places she could learn it and pointed out the sites indicated here on a former thread. The whole office was astonished when they saw the site and the learning book.
huh ...huh ....kinda cool!
 
Paul the bad one
 
PS : now ...I didn't show off with my stockings language

[bassman10096]

I saw a webnews headline sometime in the past week that a university somewhere is registering students for a course in Elvish language.
 
Bill

[1stbass]

About this get together, How about Philadelphia, not a bad town, and lots of good food and beer.
 
So what do you guys think?

[bracheen]

Bill, you're kidding right?
 
Paul TBO, congratulations on the job!  Maybe you can get your new singer friend to stop by and introduce herself.  She can be the Honorary One.
 
Paul TGO, New England has been speaking English for longer than the rest of the country, hence the name. The rest of us had to learn it from youse guys.  Or is it you'uns?
 
Sam

[dean_m]

Hey Paul TGO,
 
Any Wed or Thurs in April works for me with the exception of the 8th.  We can do maybe a Saturday but I would need to know way in advance.  Whoever else in the ANEC wants to get involved, chime on in too.  Where would you like to have it?  My place or yours???
 
Dino

[bassman10096]

Sam:  No joke about the elvish lessons.  And here I thought 1970's-style, new age liberal arts education was dead...  
Bill
 
(Message edited by bassman10096 on March 11, 2004)

[bassman10096]

 
 
(Message edited by bassman10096 on March 11, 2004)