Mountain man lingo.

[Stumblin Wolf]

I keep wanting to reply to this thread but seein' as how I've lived in Ohio, West Virginia, Florida and Germany; I would just confuse the crap out of all of you all!

And Rick, just because the  mountain men may have read books by those high falutin scribes, doesn't mean they comprehended it!

[russ]

yeah know this might just piss off a bunch of people, but...

I can understand it perfectly, it just irritates the crap out of me!

I agree.
To me it is like someone taking on a fake southern accent. For the most part if I open a thread and that is how it is written I wont read it. It makes a person sound uneducated.

[Dryball]

I'm sorry you feel that way Julius, as the majority of our members are extremely well educated...we just enjoy bringing back our idea of the past. Whether we have the correct idea of the way mountain men spoke at that time is not germane...we just enjoy it.

[Bull]

yeah know this might just piss off a bunch of people, but...

I can understand it perfectly, it just irritates the crap out of me!

I agree.
To me it is like someone taking on a fake southern accent. For the most part if I open a thread and that is how it is written I wont read it. It makes a person sound uneducated.

Yup.

[voyageur1688]

  I understand it very well for the most part and if I do find something I dont understand, then it is something I need to learn anyway so I say keep it coming.
Voy

[graybear]

Well, I speak with a drawl, and I'm a Pennsy' boy born and bred. I was speaking with a drawl in high school and never did loose it. It gets real thick when I'm tired or angry. Maybe you've heard of someone else from my old area, Jimmy Stewart. If I so desire, I can speak quite well. However, in my case that would be somewhat pretentious and I just ain't that way. My step-dad would say I was using those $5.00 words(pre-inflation) when a nickel one would do. I grew up around coal miners and farmers, a lot of whom talked like that, and I'm proud of them. They weren't well educated but they would do what was necessary to keep the family fed and a roof over their heads, as long as it didn't hurt someone else or wasn't a grave sin. Maybe we need more folks like that today.

[forrest]

  I understand it very well for the most part and if I do find something I dont understand, then it is something I need to learn anyway so I say keep it coming.
Voy

   I don't realy have a problem fig. it out. Just not use to it.