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JAZZGASM said:
For me, people from Utah that say/write the following:
"All the sudden"--OK. At least say "all of a sudden", which still tends to bug me (can you have part of a sudden). Just say suddenly.
Pronounce Ambulance as Am-blee-ence. Come on, really?
Pronounce Canyon Ken-yen. What?
It is mail not mell. Milk is not Melk. Wash not warsh. Deal not dill. Library not libary. Probably not probley or even worse--proley. Creek not crick It is coupon not Q-pon. And flip, fletch, freak, freakin, heck and crap are not profane terms.
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Utah speak is a pet peeve of mine too. I have a friend who is very very Utah. He was "barn" and grew up in Hupper (Hooper), and spent a lot of time in other strongly Utah places (like "Mercan Fark"). I got a real kick out of listening to him complain about everyone playing farmville on facebook, because he repeatedly insisted that "it's not rill". And every story he tells starts with "we wuz".
 
LogGrad98 said:
Utah speak is a pet peeve of mine too. I have a friend who is very very Utah. He was "barn" and grew up in Hupper (Hooper), and spent a lot of time in other strongly Utah places (like "Mercan Fark"). I got a real kick out of listening to him complain about everyone playing farmville on facebook, because he repeatedly insisted that "it's not rill". And every story he tells starts with "we wuz".
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Have literally never heard anyone from Utah talk like that.
 
LogGrad98 said:
Utah speak is a pet peeve of mine too. I have a friend who is very very Utah. He was "barn" and grew up in Hupper (Hooper), and spent a lot of time in other strongly Utah places (like "Mercan Fark"). I got a real kick out of listening to him complain about everyone playing farmville on facebook, because he repeatedly insisted that "it's not rill". And every story he tells starts with "we wuz".
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Hurricun and crick were two I remember. Also a paper "root" instead of route. Although that one is Midwest and not just Utah (Route 66, for example). When I first moved to CA, everyone made fun of the words I used and also the tendency to talk much sloooowwwer. Took me a couple of years to lose my Utardness.
 
UGLI baby said:
It bugs you when you hit curbs with your car?

lolwut?

Stop hitting curbs with your car bro. Pet Peeve solved.
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Sometimes in life, things happen...on accident. I take great car of my car but once or twice a year I misjudge the distance from the curb and scraaaape...albeit a small one but still.
 
VINYLONE said:
I've been to SLC more than a few times over the years and some residents of the city just sound country as ****. And, yes, I am a city boy.
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Yeah it gets worse as you get more rural, and it gets far more pronounced the more time I spend away from Utah. I don't think I ever spoke like that while I lived there, but I notice it a lot more now that I am not so Utah sheltered and have spent a fair amount of time in other parts of the country. Going back now the "rill" instead of "real" jumps out at you a lot. Rilly.
 
Here they tie it to southern Utah, but I have heard it from Logan to Provo and further south. Especially "mel" instead of "mail" and "rill" instead of "real".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMBYs8z8SkQ
 
moevillini said:
excessive packaging... to the extreme

We're clearing out my in-laws house in NY and my sister-in-law is taking stuff to UPS to be packed and shipped to us. So a manila envelope that's filled with photos, cards and letters is cocooned in a massive amount of bubble wrap, then put in a fairly large box with a bunch of styrofoam packing peanuts. Fragile stuff, those cards and letters - - wouldn't want them to break! We got two of those envelopes, each packed in their own box.

There were also the two glass paperweights, each wrapped in bubble wrap until they were the size of soccer balls. Then each was put in a box filled with styrofoam packing peanuts.

Not to mention the static cling produced by the styrofoam bits.
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Me and God are truly sorry Moe.
 
PKM said:
This. It goes more like;

- I'm better than you.
- Oh, you're not Mormon, let me pray for your soul... and the souls of your dead loved ones.
- Pass the food.. cheap food.
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I think that a person question's his or her own lifestyle more in the presence of Mormons, which definitely helps strengthen the 'I'm better than you' feeling. Not saying that it doesn't exist (because it definitely does), but a lot of it comes from judgements about the psychology of a particular individual. Unless they come out and say that they're better then you can't really know for sure. I think this feeling is aided just as much by the non-Mormon than the Mormon person him/herself.

Food line is non-debatable. heh
 
VINYLONE said:
Sometimes in life, things happen...on accident. I take great car of my car but once or twice a year I misjudge the distance from the curb and scraaaape...albeit a small one but still.
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"on accident" - speaking of language idiosyncrasies, I would say "by accident". LOL!!

But speaking of curb scraping and the like, it's becoming a bigger problem around here because a lot of communities build out the curbs at the corners for what is called "traffic calming" - it does slow down the traffic but makes it difficult to make a right turn without going over the curb, especially if there's a car in the other lane.
 
LogGrad98 said:
Yeah it gets worse as you get more rural, and it gets far more pronounced the more time I spend away from Utah. I don't think I ever spoke like that while I lived there, but I notice it a lot more now that I am not so Utah sheltered and have spent a fair amount of time in other parts of the country. Going back now the "rill" instead of "real" jumps out at you a lot. Rilly.
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Another one is ornery. It is or-ner-ee not on-ree.
 
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