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Discussion Groups / English Usage / January 2010Morrison: Peaches dried up on me
Hello: How is "Peaches kind of dried up on me in this heat" different from: "My peaches kind of dried up in this heat?" --- "Peaches kind of dried up on me in this heat," said Pilate, and she reached for a peck basket which held about a half dozen. Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon, p. 139 --- -- Thanks. Marius Hancu > Hello: > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon, p. 139 > --- It's informal and colloquial: "the" is definitely understood.. It may be more common in the speech of US Southerners, and yet more in the speech of Southern Blacks. That's just a foreigner's impression, and I'd be interested to see comments from some of the Southerners who post here. >> Hello: >> [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] >I'd be interested to see comments from some of the Southerners who >post here. I do it all the time. "Internet's down", "Yard needs mowing", "Trash needs taken out", "Mail's here".... While I live in the south, I don't think this has anything to do with it. I was a northerner for the first 30-something years.  SignatureTony Cooper - Orlando, Florida >>> How is >>> "Peaches kind of dried up on me in this heat" [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > south, I don't think this has anything to do with it. I was a > northerner for the first 30-something years. Me too, and I'm way northerner than you are. But have you heard it more often where you are now? (If we can call Florida the South in any case.) >>>> How is >>>> "Peaches kind of dried up on me in this heat" [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] >more often where you are now? (If we can call Florida the South in >any case.) I wouldn't notice if I did hear it. I probably won't notice it later today if I hear someone doing it. It's just normal speech to me. SignatureTony Cooper - Orlando, Florida >"Peaches kind of dried up on me in this heat" I think "dried up" is meant metaphorically here: the supply ran low. ¬R / Darla: Leftovers aren't the mark of a man. \ www.bestweb.net/~notr Andrew Reid: Actually, they are, because that's how men's shirts button. >> "Peaches kind of dried up on me in this heat" > > I think "dried up" is meant metaphorically here: the supply ran low. I'm afraid I thought at first of Van and Miss Geldof. SignatureMike. >>> "Peaches kind of dried up on me in this heat" >> >> I think "dried up" is meant metaphorically here: the supply ran low. >> >I'm afraid I thought at first of Van and Miss Geldof. I'm worse, I thought of a faulty vagina, aka a peach: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=peach+(or+peaches) SignatureRegards, Chuck Riggs, An American who lives near Dublin, Ireland and usually spells in BrE |
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