"I loves me some X" redux
Jesse Sheidlower
jester at PANIX.COM
Tue Jul 23 02:27:34 UTC 2002
On a bulletin board I subscribe to, a woman in her 30s posted
the following, in reference to children's books:
it must be so cool when your kids reach an age where you can read and
enjoy some of the same books. not that i don't loves me some _very hungry
caterpiller,_ mind you, but y'know what i mean.
[_The Very Hungry Caterpiller_ is a classic young-children's book.]
I told her I had heard it a few times recently, and asked her if it
has any special associations or origins that she knew of; she replied:
the first time i heard someone use that expression was back when i was in
high school, visiting my uncle in georgia. i assumed it was a southern
thing; a lower class southern thing, specifically. i've heard it a bunch
since then, mostly being said by southerners, but also by non-southerners
and/or more educated people who were using it ironically.
Just a data point.
Jesse Sheidlower
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