to a point, busy = happy

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I dunno: "happy" may be an overstatement, but maybe not, so why not.

A good night's sleep is comin' my way soon, I hope, but I've been enjoying bustle-y busy days in a row. Free and easy people company therein is a big part of it, I reckon. Last night, with a couple of favorite locals, I got to the DFT at the DIA (sung to the tune of that number in Hair) for this tight bit of Hong Kong action fun (Breaking News) --- which should get some award for best use of mod-ren technological everyday conveniences in such a picture. We meandered home via La Shish West, which is open until midnight. Good to know, yes?

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Ty, and ty on using "like to" like that---it takes me back to the wonder with which I first heard that sort of usage, when I first moved to Maryland at age 10. I like t' die! someone would say, and I'd take it all into account and try to figure out what was being said. It was really grand.

My favorite example of this thing---new regional colloquialism mysteries in interpersonal interaction---(forgive me if I've told you already) was the student in the Writing Lab who asked me if she could hold the staple gun. I learned two fer one there, in that "hold" can mean "borrow for a while, using & giving back," and that a stapler can be a staple gun. But first I got to flash for a second on someone desiring to caress a staple gun.

I don't know what to make of Waffle Man, btw. I don't recall him as a stock villian on "Batman"...

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Or "Can I see the stapler?" That's something I think I first heard in DC. Meaning to borrow for a moment.

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I wonder if the holding of the staple gun is southern speech? I have never heard it before. Here's one that you may have heard-- A's mom (from SC) says it, and the first time I heard it, I got a definite image: "I carried Grandma to the store."

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Do you know to "get up with" as "to get in verbal contact with"? That one may be a Sho' thing.

I think there's a might-be-Southern variant of bringing as taking, kinda like that "carried" --- can't think of a great example just now. The difference having something to do with point of view, maybe the variations reflect a variation in assumed perspective or degree-of-shared perspective?

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We were such middle-America innocents.