Dialects, and moussaka

Over dinner, suz and I discussed the dialects of midwestern buffy watchers, who happen to have grown up in Chicago land. I know I havent mentioned suz before here, cuse, well although I live with her, at times we clash so hard that all I can think of is grumpy things to say about her, but she is not mean, or evil, but in fact one of the coolest people I know. And tonight we were having one of those conversations that you have with a long time best friend, half in a language only the two of you share, and only a third out loud, about something as inane as Chicago-English.

Now I love languages, I love to taste them, feel them on my tongue, play with the grammer, compare one to another. Things like the similarities between the word puppis, which in latin means prows, as of ships, and the norwegian word for breasts, pupper, tickle my funny bone. Hell, its not like Im a trained antro-linguist, or what every they call themselves, I dont know if they at all relate to one another, but its still funny. So when suz started talking about the Chicago accent, I more than willingly began to mumble along with her, words like Minnasota, and thirty, and shut up, and shit, and cant over moussaka and greek fries. She had pointed out that although the classic "Chicago-accent" is portrayed as something along the lines of "'ey you, go ge' me da pehper!" or "da baihrs, and da buhlls" a level to which normal chicagoans dont normally stoop, one does hear a lot of softened, or non-existant internal and terminal t's. Yes, people, if you fit in that, "Im from Chicagoland" bracket, I want you to say to yerself those words I previously mentioned, and Im sure you can think of more. They sound more like d's to you? And dont forget all those funny vowels, hrm try cars, or milk, for example.

I dont myself know if this is just Chitownish or midwestern, or what, but think... if yer from Minnesota, how do you say it? Yeah, nice hard t.

Another ideosyncratic dialect marker, as has been pointed out to me by my brudder-in-law, bubu, we of the midwest love to use inappropriate, and unnecessisary, prepositions. Prime example, "Im goinging to the store, wanna come with?" That with is entirely useless, but without it the sentence seems obscenely naked... a point on which both suz and I agree. And I am avidly against missusing prepositions, they are the bane of my existance, as well as people who missuse whom.

I will not rant about these gramatical errors, cuse, gosh, Im just as bad as the next schmoe, and its not really important in the light of the rest of my problems. Just yesterday, I recoded someone's webpage, so I could read it.

Sigh.