General Conference word counts

[Kenngo1969]

1 hour ago, T-Shirt said:

And, "real" is pronounced as "rill"

 

1 hour ago, MustardSeed said:

And idea is “idih” 

there’s a very strong Utah accent.  Can particularly be heard in my mother, and from the General RS president. 

This morning, I went down the trell that leads to my mellbox, to check the mell.  I do it every morning, without fell.   

[mfbukowski]

1 hour ago, ksfisher said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_American_English

"The West was the last area in the United States to be reached during the gradual westward expansion of settlement by English speakers and its history shows considerable mixing and leveling of the linguistic patterns of other regions. Therefore, since the settlement populations are relatively young when compared with other regions, the American West continues to be a dialect region in formation.^"

I also understand the "Utah" accent, which you seem to take great joy in pointing out and making fun of and is really just part of the larger western US group, is influenced by immigrants from the British Isles.  Scots, Irish, Welsh.  The Wikipedia article doesn't mention this, but I recall reading something about it a year or two ago.  

It's cool you even have an accent!

Mass media is stomping them out

[mfbukowski]

1 hour ago, Kenngo1969 said:

 

This morning, I went down the trell that leads to my mellbox, to check the mell.  I do it every morning, without fell.   

Did ya put it in the pell?

[california boy]

I remember walking into a classroom at BYU.  Someone had written on the chalk board

It is a gorgeous and glorious day everywhere except Spanish Fark. There it is

gargous and glarious.

[Calm]

2 hours ago, mfbukowski said:

It's cool you even have an accent!

Mass media is stomping them out

Or is it making one accent dominant.

What would an accent less voice sound like?  Serious question.  My guess is very flat, monotonish.

[Kenngo1969]

3 hours ago, mfbukowski said:

Did ya put it in the pell?

Yes.  And you wouldn't believe the weather when I went down the trell to check the mell: I got hit by a buncha hell! 😉 

[Tacenda]

I'm sorry Nofear, for using this thread, usually there's a conference thread, and this is the closest I can find. I just love this story that was shown in between conferences about a 78 year old member that painted each of the Uvalde shooting victims and just had to share.

https://www.ksl.com/article/50609929/general-conference-special-uvalde-angels

ETA: To keep up with the roll the thread is currently on, my mom would ask me to get the farks and knives out and set the table.

Edited April 4, 2023 by Tacenda

[mfbukowski]

14 minutes ago, Kenngo1969 said:

buncha hell! 😉 

Yeah, sounds like Utah. 

Oh wait

You didn't mean THAT hell...

Yep you do get lotsa hail storms too!

😉

🤪😜😉

 

[Okrahomer]

10 minutes ago, Tacenda said:

my mom would ask me to get the farks and knives out and set the table.

My Dad wanted to know if the dress code for the prom was farmal or casual.  If it was farmal, I should purchase an archid for my date.

[Tacenda]

2 minutes ago, Okrahomer said:

My Dad wanted to know if the dress code for the prom was farmal or casual.  If it was farmal, I should purchase an archid for my date.

😂

[MustardSeed]

It took years before I understood my grandma to mean “I’m headed to the church building” when she said “I’m headed up to tha waard.”  
 

I also notice lots of Utah with deep roots will say a quick “mm” before saying “bye” before hanging up the phone.  
 

“Mm bye” 😘

[Kenngo1969]

3 hours ago, Okrahomer said:

My Dad wanted to know if the dress code for the prom was farmal or casual.  If it was farmal, I should purchase an archid for my date.

My sister went to prom in her gargeous argandy farmal.  

[ksfisher]

16 hours ago, mfbukowski said:

It's cool you even have an accent!

Mass media is stomping them out

I don't know how much of one I have.  My father is from Salt Lake, but my mother was born in Indiana. 

Cot and caught are two different words to me (I remember in my freshman linguistics class in college the professor having is figure out if we pronounced them the same or differently).  Same with pen and pin.  I've noticed that sometimes I'll say creek, other times crik. 

We moved into a new house when I was in 4th grade.  The lady across the street would say warsh.  I think that's the first time I ever heard that.

I did have a sister on my mission say she could tell I was from Salt Lake because of the way I pronounced my s's.

I

[mfbukowski]

20 minutes ago, ksfisher said:

I don't know how much of one I have.  My father is from Salt Lake, but my mother was born in Indiana. 

Cot and caught are two different words to me (I remember in my freshman linguistics class in college the professor having is figure out if we pronounced them the same or differently).  Same with pen and pin.  I've noticed that sometimes I'll say creek, other times crik. 

We moved into a new house when I was in 4th grade.  The lady across the street would say warsh.  I think that's the first time I ever heard that.

I did have a sister on my mission say she could tell I was from Salt Lake because of the way I pronounced my s's.

I

Yes, maybe that's why "Christ" becomes "Cryscht".

[ksfisher]

13 minutes ago, mfbukowski said:

Yes, maybe that's why "Christ" becomes "Cryscht".

I'm not sure I've ever heard that one.

[Tacenda]

As much as I enjoyed some of the talks, the one that put a bad taste in my mouth was the one by Elder Gong, when he said he asked a beautiful girl why she was wearing a modest swimsuit at the beach. I think he should get the gong for that one. Tired of it already, focusing on women's clothing choices.

Also, as far as word count, how about the many times Palm Sunday was mentioned, wondering if it broke a record. I liked Elder Stevenson's talk on how we as a church should come up with some ideas for celebrating like other churches on Palm Sunday. 

Edited April 5, 2023 by Tacenda

[Bernard Gui]

On 4/3/2023 at 12:20 PM, Kenngo1969 said:

On the other hand, a pacemaker is someone who leads out in doing something.  If I'm in a race, and I notice a group that starts to break away from the main body of racers and to pick up the pace, if I want to be in contention near the end of the race I had better join that group.

OK, I admit ...  It's a stretch, but still ... (One should always stretch before running, as well.)    

I love spicy salsa. Make my own. So that makes me a Pace maker, too.

Somebody get a rope! 😁

 

 

Edited April 5, 2023 by Bernard Gui

[Bernard Gui]

On 4/3/2023 at 7:14 PM, mfbukowski said:

It's cool you even have an accent!

Mass media is stomping them out

Noticing this in Kentucky. 

[Bernard Gui]

On 4/3/2023 at 9:28 PM, Calm said:

Or is it making one accent dominant.

What would an accent less voice sound like?  Serious question.  My guess is very flat, monotonish.

I think it is the tv newscaster voice.

[Bernard Gui]

On 4/3/2023 at 11:29 PM, MustardSeed said:

It took years before I understood my grandma to mean “I’m headed to the church building” when she said “I’m headed up to tha waard.”  
 

I also notice lots of Utah with deep roots will say a quick “mm” before saying “bye” before hanging up the phone.  
 

“Mm bye” 😘

And call BYU “the BYU.”

[Bernard Gui]

30 minutes ago, Tacenda said:

As much as I enjoyed some of the talks, the one that put a bad taste in my mouth was the one by Elder Gong, when he said he asked a beautiful girl why she was wearing a modest swimsuit at the beach. I think he should get the gong for that one. Tired of it already, focusing on women's clothing choices.

Also, as far as word count, how about the many times Palm Sunday was mentioned, wondering if it broke a record. I liked Elder Stevenson's talk on how we as a church should come up with some ideas for celebrating like other churches on Palm Sunday. 

I told Sister Gui that would cause some folks heartburn.

[MustardSeed]

1 minute ago, Bernard Gui said:

I told Sister Gui that would cause some folks heartburn.

I threw up in my mouth a little, and then ate some GC snacks and moved on. 

[Rain]

2 hours ago, Tacenda said:

As much as I enjoyed some of the talks, the one that put a bad taste in my mouth was the one by Elder Gong, when he said he asked a beautiful girl why she was wearing a modest swimsuit at the beach. I think he should get the gong for that one. Tired of it already, focusing on women's clothing choices.

Also, as far as word count, how about the many times Palm Sunday was mentioned, wondering if it broke a record. I liked Elder Stevenson's talk on how we as a church should come up with some ideas for celebrating like other churches on Palm Sunday. 

Sunday was one of our words and I was glad I chose something small that I had a lot of.  I was glad I didn't choose "palm" as I started to think that was said even more!

[Rain]

1 hour ago, Bernard Gui said:

I love spicy salsa. Make my own. So that makes me a Pace maker, too.

Somebody get a rope! 😁

 

 

I'm a little concerned that you are making it in Kentucky!

Edited April 5, 2023 by Rain

[Peacefully]

3 hours ago, MustardSeed said:

I threw up in my mouth a little, and then ate some GC snacks and moved on. 

Yeah, that was a weird one. Who would approach a stranger on the beach and ask something like that? 

Edited April 5, 2023 by Peacefully