Notices tagged with balmur

Bradley M. Kuhn Richard Fontana

@fontana, #jimjag don't live in #Balmur, hon. He lives up der near #Bel_Air. That's Herferd county, hon, not Balmur city nor county.

Bradley M. Kuhn Brett Smith

What really surprised me from #maddog's blog was that he's from my hometown, #Balmur. I can't believe I never guessed this from his accent!

Deb Nicholson Bradley M. Kuhn

As a side note, I was really hope to find more notices tagged #Balmur.

Bradley M. Kuhn Deb Nicholson

@eximious, #MD would've been "South" if it wasn't north of DC & Lincoln had to desperately hold it. #Balmur was major hub of slave trade.

Bradley M. Kuhn Free as in Freedom , Richard Fontana

@fontana,ISTR a few times, very briefly, on !FaiFCast I've spoken with my full-on #Balmur accent. I think it was only a few sentences,though

Bradley M. Kuhn disturbing

Even more amusing tangent: #Balmur sounds freakishly like #Balmer of #Microsoft. That's !disturbing. Ok, I'm clearly too tired to work. :-/

Bradley M. Kuhn

Meanwhile, amusing tangent: only people from #Baltimore spell it #Balmur, to match phonetic spelling of standard locals' pronunciation.

Bradley M. Kuhn Denver Gingerich

@ossguy,I just assumed #Brooklyn was most popular spelling;OTOH,my mother's from Brooklyn section of #Balmur, so I always saw it so spelled.

Bradley M. Kuhn Osama Khalid

@osamak, Usually, non-native speakers have a harder time detecting accents. Plus, I've worked *very* hard to lose most of my #Balmur accent.

Bradley M. Kuhn Richard Fontana

@fontana, BTW, #Goucher was an all womens' school which changed that in the 1980s. It was the #Balmur version of #Simmons in some ways.

Bradley M. Kuhn Richard Fontana

@fontana, I agree it isn't a good thing. I was describing why I felt so strongly the need to accent minimize. #classism #bigotry #Balmur

Bradley M. Kuhn Richard Fontana

@fontana,Likely more than *I* was victim of #bigotry. I attended prep school in #Towson; my #Balmur accent revealed lower-middle-class-ness

Bradley M. Kuhn Richard Fontana

@fontana, The main reason I changed my accent is that I felt people w/ heavy #Balmur accents didn't sound edumacated. I wanted to sound so.

Bradley M. Kuhn Richard Fontana

@fontana, #Balmur is south of the Mason-Dixon, but we were on the North's side in the Civil War. Syllable-dropping is all Northern!

Bradley M. Kuhn karen sandler , Denver Gingerich

I confused @ossguy & @kaz last week by making reference to #Essex (meaning one near #Balmur, not in England): http://ur1.ca/4ibyg

Bradley M. Kuhn Richard Fontana

@fontana, and before you say "WTF?!?!", note that there is a #Brooklyn in #Balmur: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn,_Baltimore

Bradley M. Kuhn Richard Fontana

@fontana, note there are a variety of different accents around #Balmur. I was imitating how my grandmother spoke,which was a Brooklyn accent

Bradley M. Kuhn Richard Fontana

I had a whole phone call w/ @fontana where I spoke fully like an unedumacated person from #Balmur. Hopefully gave him a good sense of accent

Bradley M. Kuhn Richard Fontana

@fontana, ok, no problem. We can talk tomorrow. I did leave you a voicemail just now in full #Balmur accent so yous can hear how bad it is.