Comments on: “you’re not from around here, are you…” http://kynthiabru.net/blog/archives/294 Fri, 10 Sep 2010 04:09:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 By: dad http://kynthiabru.net/blog/archives/294#comment-5244 dad Wed, 04 Oct 2006 16:29:12 +0000 http://kynthiabru.net/blog/archives/294#comment-5244 I think you speak as you did by the age of seven, influenced for better or worse by (duh) me and your ma. I speak with a hint of Wisconsin, and am still asked now and then if I am from there or Minnesota. Your ma is the only southerner in her family who doesn't have a southern accent, so somehow the multifactorial influences of this caused you to speak distinctly Nebraskan. I think you speak as you did by the age of seven, influenced for better or worse by (duh) me and your ma. I speak with a hint of Wisconsin, and am still asked now and then if I am from there or Minnesota. Your ma is the only southerner in her family who doesn’t have a southern accent, so somehow the multifactorial influences of this caused you to speak distinctly Nebraskan.

]]> By: BlogSchmog http://kynthiabru.net/blog/archives/294#comment-5034 BlogSchmog Mon, 02 Oct 2006 14:36:47 +0000 http://kynthiabru.net/blog/archives/294#comment-5034 [...] Before becoming a Makice, I was an Isbister. As such, I inherited a long legacy of northern Scotland, including a Loch, Town and Bay up in the Orkney Islands. My dream trip — currently being carried out vicariously by Kynthia — has me living the life of a Highlander for a few months, walking into pubs where every third person shares my birth name, and finding some lost birthright (I imagine pots of Viking gold, or magic powers) someplace in the ancient ruins of Isbister. I identify with the Scots, even if I am some dozen generations from being one. [...] […] Before becoming a Makice, I was an Isbister. As such, I inherited a long legacy of northern Scotland, including a Loch, Town and Bay up in the Orkney Islands. My dream trip — currently being carried out vicariously by Kynthia — has me living the life of a Highlander for a few months, walking into pubs where every third person shares my birth name, and finding some lost birthright (I imagine pots of Viking gold, or magic powers) someplace in the ancient ruins of Isbister. I identify with the Scots, even if I am some dozen generations from being one. […]

]]> By: mom http://kynthiabru.net/blog/archives/294#comment-4979 mom Sun, 01 Oct 2006 15:44:40 +0000 http://kynthiabru.net/blog/archives/294#comment-4979 Squeaky voice? Do Canadians have squeaky voices? I have a voice that sounds too young for my age. Is that the same as squeaky? ;-) Squeaky voice? Do Canadians have squeaky voices? I have a voice that sounds too young for my age. Is that the same as squeaky? ;-)

]]> By: Guest http://kynthiabru.net/blog/archives/294#comment-4966 Guest Sun, 01 Oct 2006 05:14:02 +0000 http://kynthiabru.net/blog/archives/294#comment-4966 "...so many people think that i’m canadian..." I felt immediately compelled to say it's probably the squeaky voice and then I re-considered because of the vast number of things that are inadvertently and unavoidably insulting about that, then I remembered the glories of internet anonymity. So, it's probably the squeaky voice. “…so many people think that i’m canadian…”

I felt immediately compelled to say it’s probably the squeaky voice and then I re-considered because of the vast number of things that are inadvertently and unavoidably insulting about that, then I remembered the glories of internet anonymity. So, it’s probably the squeaky voice.

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