Just for a laugh
She looks on amazed as he removes his trousers, rolls them into a tight ball and rubs them against the car door. Magically it opens. "That's so clever," the woman gasps. "How did you do it?" "Easy," replies the man. "These are my khakis".    |
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Ha!  Took me a second, and then I remembered where you live!Laurie and Oscar |
I think that joke works for Bostonians as well.  |
| Not at all. Bostonian pronunciation guide: CAR = "Cah" as in "open wide and say ahhhh" vs KHAki = "ca" as in "cat". ( Of course that explanation only works for folks in the US  )Bostonians use that ahhhhhh sound in some unusual ways: In "vase", the flower holding device In "bath" In "aunt" We drop our Rs where they belong, and add'em where they don't: 44 = fowady fowahh (the a in fowady is very soft and brief) Idea = ID'er Weah very well bred up he-ah |
My goodness I had no idea it didn't translate.  |
Ron wrote: Not at all. Bostonian pronunciation guide: CAR = "Cah" as in "open wide and say ahhhh" vs KHAki = "ca" as in "cat". ( Of course that explanation only works for folks in the US )Bostonians use that ahhhhhh sound in some unusual ways: In "vase", the flower holding device In "bath" In "aunt" We drop our Rs where they belong, and add'em where they don't: 44 = fowady fowahh (the a in fowady is very soft and brief) Idea = ID'er Weah very well bred up he-ah I think my take on it still holds. The guy in the joke is saying khakis the way Cliff Clavin would say car keys (cah kees). Unless you're saying Cliffy wouldn't pronounce the "kha" part of khakis as the "cah" sound. |
| Yup! That's the point.... John Ratzenberger was playing a caricature of a Bostonian accent. Car and khaki sound nothing alike up here. Up here, the a in car sounds like ahhhhhhh, the a in khaki sounds like cat. If you like, I'll recowad myself and let ya heah. |
Ron wrote: Not at all. Bostonian pronunciation guide: CAR = "Cah" as in "open wide and say ahhhh" vs KHAki = "ca" as in "cat". ( Of course that explanation only works for folks in the US )Bostonians use that ahhhhhh sound in some unusual ways: In "vase", the flower holding device In "bath" In "aunt" We drop our Rs where they belong, and add'em where they don't: 44 = fowady fowahh (the a in fowady is very soft and brief) Idea = ID'er Weah very well bred up he-ah Having had a very good friend for years that was transplanted from Portland, Maine to Ohio & who attended Boston College, I can understand this very well. I still remember him asking my 5 year old son to please go get his "cah keys" off the table. My son looked at me & said "What's he want?" But I think our family favorite was the day we were all on a walk over to the neighbor's & we walked across the farm field that was between the 2 properties & he shouted "AHHHH! I just stepped in Has ####".  |
Quote: My goodness I had no idea it didn't translate. Oh it did but I had to say it out loud with an Aussie accent. Then it was obvious and funny! |
| Exactly!!! It made for an even better laugh when it dawned on me what the joke was! Love it. |
| Cute joke Mim! I pity folks trying to learn English as a second language. Based on phonics? Or as my grade 2 teacher would say "sound it out".  peg |
| Ron, you could be describing my dad's accent as well. He was born in Pittsfield, ME, and moved to Illinois when he was 22 years old. Forty plus years in Illinois rounded out the "cah" for car, but to the day he passed away, he called my sister "Liser" (Lisa. ) Mom's family is from Manchester, NH, otherwise known as Manchestah, New Hampsha. Back east, my name (Laurie) is pronounced differently then someone who spells their name Lori...., and we grew up knowing that ants were insects and aunts (ahnts) were the wives of our uncles. Laurie and Oscah  |
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