Hello.

Hi, John.

Hi, Merlin.

How's it going?

Good.

Good, good, good.

How are you going?

I'm doing good. I have a dusky voice from having a cold.

Oh, you do have a dusky voice.

That sounds dusky.

You do. You sound like the stage manager of a Southern theater company. Listen, I'm glad y'all are going to be out here. We're going to need to get them max and we need to take and sweep out that whole area before y'all get out there. You got to sweep out that whole area. Take and. Take and. I grew up. Did you, was that, was that in parlance when you were a child? Take and. Take and? Is that purely a southern thing? Yeah, I don't know what that means. Yeah, you need to, you need, well, first of all, you always say you need to. You need to take and move them boxes. Oh, take and move them boxes. No, we didn't speak that way up here. I may just do this all the time now. My favorite is the kind of Southern family has a voice real dusk like that, but also a little bit of feminine. A little effeminate. A little feminine. But he's not. It's kind of a Georgia thing. Yeah, right. Sure. there's a there's that there's that uh that southern there's that southern twang that almost sounds like like brooklyn nasal yeah yeah the uh it's it's it's

it's yeah sort of almost a jersey squeak well when you got me thinking about this, many, many episodes ago

talking about how many, uh, taking, taking, I can't stop. I'm sorry, I'm sick. Um, you got me

thinking about this with the number of people in, uh, in the south that are from, you know, the British

Isles from Scotland. Right. In Ireland. And now it's funny. I do kind of notice some similarities. It'd be fun

to have a language person sit down, take and sit down with you and be able to illustrate those

similarities. I would like to sit with a language person. I'd like to take and sit. I'd like to take and sit

and sit with a language person for a long time.

I would love to talk to a language person.

I love language people.

You know, of all the pedantic people that are out there, language people bother me the least.

Oh, yeah.

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