(Fwd) Re: Word coinages in SF: threat or menace?

[Ben Ostrowsky]

> It may not be much better for southern Floridians writing northern
> Florida characters.

It probably isn't -- North Florida is part of the South, but South Florida
is about as far as you can get from it, culturally and (to my ear)
linguistically.  I had a LOT of adjusting to do when I moved from Miami
Springs, where I grew up, to Gainesville.

Ben