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I seem to hear more and more people talk like this lately

cassette teeps

my eem is true

hi my name is eemie

that guy's ghee

― PappaWheelie demands you to ''only pick any'' (PappaWheelie 2), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

I'm eengry!

― PappaWheelie demands you to ''only pick any'' (PappaWheelie 2), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

Have you moved to South Africa?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

no he's hanging out w posh people. do they pronounce house to rhyme with mice?

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

No, really posh people don't use any vowels at all. The flat A thing is just Seth Efrikan.

― We Are The Village Green Psychogeographical Society (kate), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

Colin Murray?

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

ok, pseudo-posh ppl!

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

I've even begun to hear it on standard eemerican TV shows recently

― PappaWheelie has no answers to any question that requires actual thought as (Pap, Tuesday, 26 September 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

The flat A thing is just Seth Efrikan.

Not short a to long e, long a to long e.

(it's mostly an american white chick thing I think)

― PappaWheelie has no answers to any question that requires actual thought (PappaW, Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

dude where the fuck do you live

― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

"It appears that his boyhood sweetheart, Sally—called, by Mr. Louis Calhern, who has gone British or something, "Selly," just as he says, and as yearningly, "heppy"—had used to occupy the adjoining room, and he had a nasty habit of tapping on the wall between, to communicate with her." —Review of A.A. Milne's "Give Me Yesterday", Dorothy Parker, The New Yorker, March 14, 1931

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

that's one of my all-time favorite dorothy parker reviews, and it has always made me want to stage a revival of the play.

― a|ex (Pareene), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

w/ tapping

― a|ex (Pareene), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

Sally has a short a

Happy has a short a

Amy has a long a

"Eemy"

I live in NYC

I hear this daily

Even on TV

― PappaWheelie has no answers to any question that requires actual thought (PappaW, Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

on the long a? my only experience with this is on the short a, which is part of the western ny/rust belt/great lakes accent -- long, flattened vowels. like, my little brother as a teenager calling downstairs to my dad: "Deeeeeeee-yyaaaaaaaad!"

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

I will say I didn't notice this trend at all until only about a year or two ago. My cubemates' boss at the time kept talking about her teeps. It took me a minute or two to realize they were tapes.

Eating dinner with the lady and her friend recently we overheard a whole table of these chicks. When I repeated that one ordered "steek", my ladyfriend's friend with all seriousness called it "the angry a", as if she had known about this for a while and it had already acquired a name.

― PappaWheelie has no answers to any question that requires actual thought (PappaW, Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

reep!

― Dr. Alicia D. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

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