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This here is a southern dialect in the US of A, partner! Try some appalachian dialects, ow lawd 'av mercy. Ain't nobody gon' understand them folk but the devi
by godmodus 10y ago
This here is a southern dialect in the US of A, partner!
Try some appalachian dialects, ow lawd 'av mercy.
Ain't nobody gon' understand them folk but the devil trees they live under.
spits into a bucket and continues carving a squirrel mantlepiece
- mathgeek 10y agoY'all crazier than a rabid squirrel! To answer the original question: the article is explicitly humorous whike also using the correct language for the topic. It's meant to be "harder to read" as a way to add a layer of wordplay.
- throwanem 10y agoIt also, for those familiar with the semiotics of American English dialects, subtly invokes the "Hold my beer - hey, y'all, watch this!" stereotype of rednecks.
- chiph 10y agoIt's what makes Huntsville Alabama so entertaining. Equal parts rocket scientists and rednecks. "I wonder what would happen if I ran my small-block Chevy on some hydrazine? Because Nitrous injection is for wimps." (Hydrazine is highly toxic and dangerously unstable unless handled in solution.)
- Bartweiss 10y agoPrecisely - I took it as a joking accusation that he considers this sort of thing reckless, cowboy chemistry.
- godmodus 10y agoTIL "semiotics" Nice.