tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8527325.post1506019692299637062..comments2023-06-06T05:29:25.005-05:00Comments on The Vapid Voice: These Stupid Chicago EmailsThe Vapid Voicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07731875334895612352noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8527325.post-83447192070787666652008-11-11T03:05:00.000-06:002008-11-11T03:05:00.000-06:00Good post.Good post.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8527325.post-24602385173326012962008-03-04T05:53:00.000-06:002008-03-04T05:53:00.000-06:00As for Xoynx...4. I've never said any of those; I ...As for Xoynx...<BR/><BR/>4. I've never said any of those; I said I've *heard* people say "the Jewel". Read before you write, wise guy! Aren't you a Canadian that lived in Evanston and moved to Arizona? Zing!<BR/><BR/>26. Yeah I just found issue with the pointless "da" prefix. Otherwise, it is true, the highways around here are never referenced by number, but by name, just sans the "da" crap.<BR/><BR/>To Fagedaboudit:<BR/>Yeah, most of those language characterizations stem from the southwest siders, for sure. It's just cultural, is all, but some of the things in that email were just patently inaccurate, even for the "sowt side".The Vapid Voicehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07731875334895612352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8527325.post-40249337546039152902008-02-27T02:04:00.000-06:002008-02-27T02:04:00.000-06:00Actually,In the past I've almost all of this stuff...Actually,<BR/><BR/>In the past I've almost all of this stuff spoken by southwest siders. Usually, in a bar. Plus, I did live there 30 yrs. ago ...for a short period of time. The language barrier killed me. They are a different breed there.<BR/><BR/>FagedabouditAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8527325.post-29526934799788745512008-02-25T22:18:00.000-06:002008-02-25T22:18:00.000-06:00Reading your post, I kept hearing The Regular Guy ...Reading your post, I kept hearing The Regular Guy and Archie Bunker alternately, further debunking their foreign myths.<BR/><BR/>4. "The Jewel"? Never heard that before. You say "the Osco" and "the McDonald's" too?<BR/><BR/>12. Yes, it's true--and equally true for any other city next to a lake.<BR/><BR/>15. It's nationally ubiquitous. Watch...<BR/><BR/>26. I admit: this one threw me when I first moved here. People would go, "look for the Edens exit," and I'd go, "is that before or after 94?"<BR/><BR/>Okay, so the Taste and expressways are the two actual Chicagoisms on this list. Pfft.J. McCrackanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06974457966167816301noreply@blogger.com