Ongoing Quilt Projects, Continued from the "No Appreciation...." Thread

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oops. Didn't know it was Australian. A duvet, then?
https://www.arrohome.com/blog/doona-whats-behind-name/

Doona cover is like a really big pillowslip, for putting over a feather or down-filled bed quilt (duvet, doona)

haha, yup, duvet we understand. Never heard the term "doona" before, so figured it was an Aussie-ism. Now, I know! I bet I could teach you "Southern", too, LOL!

 

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I bet I could teach you "Southern", too, LOL!

I heard some from a correspondent in Louisiana, and I watch a lot of tv so some I might recognise.

 

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I heard some from a correspondent in Louisiana, and I watch a lot of tv so some I might recognise.

Oh, but LA is very different from GA Southern, trust me. LA has the Cajun influence that we don't have. I can barely understand some folks from LA with heavy accents, but then, some from here are so Southern, that I can barely understand them. When we came back from being in the Air Force years ago, we met my future BIL, my husband's youngest sister's fiance. I asked her what Dennis's last name was. She said, to my ear, "Whales". I repeated "Whales? Spell that" Her spelling? WELLS.

 

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I repeated "Whales? Spell that" Her spelling? WELLS.

I bought a speech-to-text software program (Dragon Naturally speaking). It doesn't understand my vowels. You have to train it to understand you, but it didn't understand me at all out of the box.
I get audiobooks on cd from the public library. I'm listening to one at the moment being read by a woman from somewhere south (maybe from Reece Witherspoon's neck of the woods, wherever she's from). She says single syllables as 2 syllables. cay-ake, ee-eat, row-ope etc. Lucky it's a good story, I find it a bit irritating

EDIT: looked her up, she's from Michigan. I don't know where that double-syllable thing comes from....

 

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I bought a speech-to-text software program (Dragon Naturally speaking). It doesn't understand my vowels. You have to train it to understand you, but it didn't understand me at all out of the box.
I get audiobooks on cd from the public library. I'm listening to one at the moment being read by a woman from somewhere south (maybe from Reece Witherspoon's neck of the woods, wherever she's from). She says single syllables as 2 syllables. cay-ake, ee-eat, row-ope etc. Lucky it's a good story, I find it a bit irritating

There are super exaggerated southern accents on movies, I swear. We sit and laugh our heads off at some of the interpretations of it. Some of that is just not real, I promise you. Now, the closest you'd come, probably, would be native South Carolinians, who I swear sometimes sound like they came off of a plantation in the Old South, LOL. Used to be a lady on TV, an exercise show. She called herself Beverly Exercise. If I could only speak instead of write the way she'd say that, you'd crack up. She was WAY too Southern for even us! I have a Youtube channel if you've ever listened to me. I can pour on the accent or tone it way down, but never get rid of it. It's like a pitbull with a hold on your jugular, haha.

One terrible Hollywood example was a character on the mini series about the civil war called North And South. Colonel Bent had the WORST unreal southern accent. NObody speaks like that. But you know them Yankees faking it can really get it wrong, LOL.
One of the most authentic accents would be the Chris character on NCIS New Orleans. He is supposedly from Alabama, the character, and he sounds like it, too, not fake at all.


Back to my quilt...getting close to the home stretch on that.

 

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One of the most authentic accents would be the Chris character on NCIS New Orleans. He is supposedly from Alabama, the character, and he sounds like it, too, not fake at all.

Is that Lucas Black?
There's somebody on here from the Carolinas. I looked it up. They have some really interesting dialects there, there are people who were sort of isolated from everybody else, and they've got their own dialect.
Actors often "overdo" Aussie as well, it's a difficult one to get right.

 

[DuckLady]

I ordered a 96" x 9 yd roll of cotton batting, seemed a good price about $26. I opened the mailing plastic envelope and there it was, on a bolt. It was sort of unexpected, LOL. I've never had batting that wasn't in a package. How do you store that stuff? How do you keep it from picking up lint and such? My quilt room is my former master bedroom with carpet. I still have my triple dresser and a chest of drawers and my computer desk in there because my 2nd bedroom where we sleep is really not much of a bedroom, really small. I seriously need to ditch that triple dresser that takes up so much room, which is in perfect shape after 24 years and solid wood, and get a more upright 5-6 drawer chest or something.

I buy 40 yard rolls of 90" and 40" batting. I just stand them up in the closet in my sewing room.

 

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Is that Lucas Black?
There's somebody on here from the Carolinas. I looked it up. They have some really interesting dialects there, there are people who were sort of isolated from everybody else, and they've got their own dialect.
Actors often "overdo" Aussie as well, it's a difficult one to get right.

Yes, Lucas Black, born in AL and he sounds like it. No fake stuff from him! I love the Aussie accent. British, not at all, but Aussie, love it.

I buy 40 yard rolls of 90" and 40" batting. I just stand them up in the closet in my sewing room.

My clothes closet is full, unfortunately. I keep wanting to clean it out. I mean, it's pretty large, but getting DH on board to do anything is difficult with his back problems. And a lot of it is up high and belongs to him anyway. If we could get all our clothes on one side and let me have the other for my quilt stuff, sigh.

I have never used one 3000 yard cone of thread on just one quilt, but this might be the quilt. Whew. I've had 22 or 23 bobbin changes already.

 

[DuckLady]

We started using subtitles on our TV if it is not an American show. It got old re-running bits of the dialog, trying to figure it out. Worst is Yorkshire Vets and Sherlock, with Benedict Cumberbatch. Bob and I would try to listen and understand and then just look at each other and go "whaaaaat?????" Subtitles save the day.

 

[DuckLady]

I bet I could teach you "Southern", too, LOL!

My grandmother was from North Carolina. Everytime she came back from her yearly trip Back East, we couldn't understand her. I got to where I could mimic her so well I would fool people. Once she heard me and said "Terreh, don't be ugleh."

Which was another thing. "Ugly" meaning unkind, which I didn't know and wondered why gramma didn't tell me I was pretty like she did my sister. Now I know I was just bratty.