Don't fall in the fire...
The 23rd made a year since this Blog began. So, Dance around the campfire, hang around a while. At the moment this post is being influenced by a very sluggish internet...the Recalcitranet. I won't give you a speech. I could. Instead I havn't kept up with much of any of my fellow Bloggers latley... Only Spotblogging...Yes, I claim that term...Reading Blogs every now and then...So, I would like to share some links to some intersting stuff that I have read latley.
APPALACHIA FIRST! Elvis Drinkmo had this to say. How 'bout that, you thought us Mountain Folk were backwards. Nope. Turns out were just isolated.
Going further south to the has better Laws than us, State of Georgia, Three Score and Ten More had something to say regarding Farm Life. Made me think of Napoleon Dynamite. Hey...he had nothing to prove, but, he got off his ass and worked instead of waiting for a hand out!
Forgotten Words
As I was growing up I lived in the Upstate of South Carolina. But, the real home was an hour away. I spoke differantly from most children. I used words like Gaum. The American Heritage Dictionary qoutes it as being regional, an alteration of gum. Meaning to smudge or smear. Websters goes slightly further giving more of the meaning of it, saying that it is Old English. It means to being thick gum like, messy, stuck in place, something that would relate to that. (I've heard it has a Melungeon influence, being a Turkish word. No, that's not a lost Indian Tribe. But, I doubt it. There are no Mulungeons here.) So, a fellar could say he's messing and a gauming...He's eating messely. Or, it's all gaumed up. It's a mess, malfunction or so on. It is not rude! It's used in common form. This is somethng for outsiders...out landers or so on, people without roots here find this unique. When you show them the word in the dictionary, it stuns them.
OK...you know the song qoute above is from a certain band...what song? Let's just see how much of a Heathen you are?
Happy "Birthday to me...and to you"(Blog of course)
Appalachian Intellectual
posted by Hill Billy Rave | Thursday, January 26, 2006
6 Comments:
Happy Anniversary!
Wait Come back! I wasn't through with the darn post..it was only half done...Oh I hate the Recalcitranet!
"I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralysed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something - a great deal - to do with how we live our lives and whom we end up speaking with and hearing; and that we can deflect words by trivialization, of course, but also by ritualized respect, or we can let them enter our souls and mix with the juices of our minds."
~~Andrienne Cecile Rich~~
Happy Blog Birthday!
Why Thank You Janie, that's a fine qoute.
Happy Blogger birthday/anniversay! Why don't you spotblog your happy arse over my way? Or are you going to blame the Recalcitranet.
Murf, the first time I heard that song was live at a Camper Van Bethoven Show. Being performed by Ironic Mullet wich was Crcker doing Country Covers. I'm shocked that you wrote that...Great Song. The Record Companies probabaly don't like it.
Don't worry Annalis, I'll be by...Where does the brit talk come from?
The Day beckons...
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