This is why I don't get much sleep

[kickaha]

Last night, around, oh... 1am or so, ginkgo busts out the following:

Me: So I pointed (Name deleted to protect the innocent) to the torrent site to get the Doctor Who episode he missed last week, and he said "My god, there must be almost every episode on here." I almost responded with "Pert'near"[1].

She: Don't you mean "Pertwee near"?




[1] Pert'near is a SW VA expression that is a contraction and bastardization of "pretty near". ginkgo's family and my family both have roots that end up within a couple dozen miles of each other in that area, and somehow this phrase has survived.

Comments

[night-monkey.livejournal.com]

Some people call it a kaiser blade. You call it a....?

[icebluenothing.livejournal.com]

That's insanely awesome. :)

Pert'near is in my vocab, too. I blame my father being from Aberdeen. But it's such a useful word!

Of course, I will also strongly defend the linguistic necessity of "y'all," since English doesn't have a proper second-person plural pronoun ....

[georgmi.livejournal.com]

I added "pert' near" to my vocabulary on purpose several years ago. Not sure whether it's *just* because I'm lazy, or because it's often useful to appear slower than I actually am. (Yes, yes, the response to that is obvious and lacks both creativity and impressiveness.)