Comments on "Family dialect study" - Faerye Net

re: Waffle House

2008-05-21T11:24:35+00:00

Interesting, J9 (and welcome to my lair!). My sources call that…lessee, O’Brian has peppers, so I think Potatoes “Lyonnaise” or something.

My sources are Wikipedian, though, so they could easily be mistaken.

Waffle House

2008-05-20T23:57:31+00:00

This may be betraying my cultural origins, but I this is also the way “hash” is served in some parts of the south? In fact, I grew up eating fried potatoes that were about a quarter inch thick and pieces as big as half-dollars. More Potato, less grease, and very tasty. (Always comes with onions.)

taters

2008-05-20T16:57:42+00:00

I think sometimes they’re called country style or home style hashbrowns. Or something. Ask me when I start getting more than 4-6 hours sleep per night. But they’re called something. On some menu. Somewhere. I guarantee it.

Re: names

2008-05-19T19:21:20+00:00

(note that I do not respond to EMeta’s slashdot suggestion. Because it APPALLS me on every level.)

The slashbrowns (which I restored today in a moment of bravado before sending the thesis in) are in a homemade breakfast-food context, so it shouldn’t be too confusing. I have gone with the weird, for truly, it is NOT the only weird thing in the story, so why should I lull people into a false sense of normality?

Re: names

2008-05-19T17:40:29+00:00

Potatoes figure promptly in my novel-in-progress. Maybe the question is more about if everyone needs to get what you’re doing. (And I say this without any idea of what you’re doing.)

But you can also put stuff back after graduation if you choose.

names

2008-05-19T06:45:18+00:00

Just make sure each sliver is skinny and has four eyes & call them slashdots.

Crikey!

2008-05-17T21:53:49+00:00

Potatoes really bring out the commenters here’bouts. These ‘home fries’ do sound remarkably similar to slashbrowns. Also, tasty. I haven’t had dinner yet.

I’m not sure I can hold out against the Slashbrown contingent when Leslie is in their ranks…nor can I ever bring myself to argue that I don’t have the right to invent words.

Hmm. Maybe Jack and future readers will have to learn my crazy lingo!

No subject

2008-05-17T21:35:25+00:00

You mean we aren’t supposed to make up the words?

(I love “slashbrowns” and think you ought to keep it.)

l.

Home fries?

2008-05-17T11:40:37+00:00

It sounds like your grandmother is making “home fries.” Really, really, really tasty-sounding “home fries.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_fries

Non-words

2008-05-17T01:09:31+00:00

Nothing that a couple of single quotes can’t legitimize. :)