I'm having a hard time deciding on this one, but I'm leaning towards the choice to preserve the comments without jumping into the fray. it's complicated, to say the least. and btw, I love the video. my favorite is when IrishParkour calls it "controversial." Do they call it "coh-coh-la" in Sevierville?
They certainly say co-cola in my hometown of Nashville. East Tennessee I'm not so sure about. My grandfather, an East Tennessean who came from generations of East Tennesseans, called Coke "dope" or "dopesy" or "dopesy-cola," locutions that regularly confused Red Lobster waitstaff. These apparently were a throwback to the time when Coke had actual cocaine in it.
I'm having a hard time deciding on this one, but I'm leaning towards the choice to preserve the comments without jumping into the fray. it's complicated, to say the least. and btw, I love the video. my favorite is when IrishParkour calls it "controversial." Do they call it "coh-coh-la" in Sevierville?
ReplyDeleteI KNOW!! Now I can be introduced as a controversial filmmaker! How exciting!
ReplyDeleteKenneth will have to weigh in on the "coh-coh-la" query: he's much better about separating out regional pronunciations.
terry thinks the video is beautiful. so do I.
ReplyDeleteThey certainly say co-cola in my hometown of Nashville. East Tennessee I'm not so sure about. My grandfather, an East Tennessean who came from generations of East Tennesseans, called Coke "dope" or "dopesy" or "dopesy-cola," locutions that regularly confused Red Lobster waitstaff. These apparently were a throwback to the time when Coke had actual cocaine in it.
ReplyDeleteBut many of my grandfather's distinctive turns of phrase turned out not to be regionalisms, but rather just weird things he said.
ReplyDeleteI wish I could have kicked it at Red Lobster with your grandfather with some Jumbo Shrimp.
ReplyDeleteThose were the days!
ReplyDeletejumbo shrimp attack!!
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