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[Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>]

At 1/13/2007, you wrote:
> In the east Tennessee Appalachian area where
> James exists, we normals might not even be able to understand local
> gutterances.

My son who grew up here in southern California moved to Asheville, NC a 
couple of years ago.  It was a real education for him.  He worked the store 
in Hendersonville which has enough cross section that he was able to pick 
up most of it but when he took over the store in Waynesville he ran into 
what calls Mountain Folk.  Almost a year and a half later he is still 
trying to understand some of them.

He also speaks Spanish well enough to sell auto parts but even there it is 
a slightly different version he had to relearn.  His store is doing well, 
in part because he helps the Spanish speakers and the word has spread.



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>  In the east Tennessee Appalachian area where  
> James exists, we normals might not even be able to understand local  
> gutterances.

Indeed you wouldn't.  And even if you did, you'd have no idea what we were 
talking about.  Our normal speech is very .... eh .... distinct.  But it is so 
indirect that the untutored have no idea what's being discussed.  Do you recall 
a StarTrek (Next Generator) episode where they ran into a race who only 
communicated in allegory (Chaka when the walls fell)?  Not much different around 
here.

If that weren't enough, one cannot conduct normal business (rural business) 
here any more without being somewhat fluent in Spanish.