Teej meata right leica mainer tawks.

[woodsy]

Isn't wirds spelled write like birds? I can see this isn't about to happen overnight.

It takes a lifetime to master the language, don't get to hung up on the spellin part, just spell it however you want it to sound, and try not ta run werds togetha
I can't find that spellin etiquette link.

[Philippe]

Farwood? What is that. Do you mean "fai-ah wood? Woodsy's post hit it right on the nose, if you want to speak Downeast. It won't do you any good in Northern Maine though. In Northern Maine they break the world into to groups: French and English. French = French. Polish = English. Kenyan = English. Albanian = French. Well you get it.

[mudhead]

I have noticed that the weather reports are in Kenyan and French up north.

Paddling upstream. Translates to pissing in(to) the wind, when with the boys.

Number than a pounded thumb.

From Boston.

[woodsy]

Farwood? What is that. Do you mean "fai-ah wood?

You're right Phileppe, I just spelled it thataway so our suthin friends would know what i meant.

[emerald]

Maybe Philippe just spells bettah?

[Tinker]

So the city flatlandah steps onto the poach (porch) of the rural Maine gen-ral (general) stoah (store) and asks the old geezer in the rockin' chayah, "Hey, old man, have you lived here all of your life?"

"Nawt yet!" the old Maineah replies flatly.

[mudhead]

Poe ahch.
gen al.
stow ah.

City flatlander= from Boston

Old geezer= old faht

Nawt yet= how much $ did you spend at Bean's on the way up?

[woodsy]

A Maine State trooper pulled over a pickup on Route 11. The trooper asked, "Got any ID?" The driver replied, bout what?

[emerald]

I'm not so sure standardized spellings within the US is necessarily a good thing. The English can spell things however they want and Americans can spell things however they want.

Why can't Mainers be allowed to spell how they speak? It just doesn't seem right! If Mainers were to spell as they speak we could have the pleasure of reading their thoughts, rather than our own.

Mark Twain wrote in dialect as did others. I think one thing about hiking the AT that makes it worthwhile is hearing just how many ways English can be spoken. Speech is one of the remaining things about America that has not yet become homogenized and I'm glad for it.

[woodsy]

Application to become a Mainah

Falsifying information on application is subject to imprisonment
without beer.

[emerald]

Sheesh! You're not courting tourists with cash to burn, are you? I thought it was "Welcome to Maine. Now give us your money and please go away."

[woodsy]

Shades of Gray;589092]Sheesh! You're not courting tourists with cash to burn, are you?

No worry, only bout a dozen applications are approved each yea, they almost always ah ex-Mainahs.

"Welcome to Maine. Now give us your money and please go away."

Hmmm, that sounds very familiar

[wakapak]

Application to become a Mainah

Falsifying information on application is subject to imprisonment
without beer.

Now that was wicked hilarious!!!

[mudhead]

Why can't Mainers be allowed to spell how they speak? It just doesn't seem right! If Mainers were to spell as they speak we could have the pleasure of reading their thoughts, rather than our own.

Mainbonics? Probably not a good thing.

If people knew what we were thinking, it would be more difficult to sell them useless crap at insane prices. Need a lobster bouy?

[woodsy]

Now that was wicked hilarious!!!

Women "from away" are encouraged to apply Hiking/fishing/hunting and camping skills are a plus!

[wakapak]

Women "from away" are encouraged to apply Hiking/fishing/hunting and camping skills are a plus!

sounds like i just may get accepted, ayup. gots me some hikin, campin, and fishin skillz....i useta vacation in maine, ayup!

[emerald]

Mainbonics? Probably not a good thing.

If people knew what we were thinking, it would be more difficult to sell them useless crap at insane prices. Need a lobster bouy?

I wasn't thinking about reading Mainers' minds, but rather processing what's read in dialect. In my mind, I sometimes hear Mainespeak when I read here some of what's written there regardless of how it's spelled.

[mudhead]

You just miss the damn place.

[emerald]

I do. Were Maine nearer me, it would be nearer everyone else too. You'd get no peace. It would be like Vermont much of the year.

[woodsy]

Ya kno tha tootbrush was invented right heah in ma ine. If it'd ben invented anywear else, it'd ben called a teethbrush

wakapak: sounds like i just may get accepted, ayup. gots me some hikin, campin, and fishin skillz....i useta vacation in maine, ayup!

Its a hundred dollar non-refundable application fee, definitely worth a try.......
just kiddin, you'd likely fit in just fine round hee ah.