"soda" in Minneapolis
Laurence Horn
laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Mon Aug 12 00:40:09 UTC 2002
At 6:25 PM -0500 8/11/02, Tom Kysilko wrote:
>I. Since Garrison Keillor has been mentioned, and since we've been treated
>to a fascinating article in the most recent AS about the influence of media
>representations on Pittsburghese, I have to wonder if any work of a similar
>nature is being done on Minnesota speech (ME). People of my acquaintance
>here will occasionally ape -- both self-consciously and un-self-consciously
>-- the representations of ME found in A Prairie Home Companion ("A guy
>could...", "You betcha"), Howard Mohr's How to Talk Minnesotan ("hotdish"),
The two are related. Mohr used to do a little segment on PHC back in
the 1980's, and I know his book through Keillor's references to it
(and to him) as well as through his guest appearances on the show a
ways back. I wonder if the Coen brothers' take on Minnesotan in
Fargo, as you mention, was influenced by PHC/Mohr, or if they both
derive from the same stereotype (which, like all stereotypes, is
partly grounded in reality but exaggerated for effect). Could be
worse.
L
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