[MBZ] OT Gullah Story

2018-04-28 Thread Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
copied this off a FB history post: Here is another Gullah story. Back in the '60s we hired this Gullah woman from our farm labor to help out in the house and look after our two young ones while we worked. She was an excellent cook, and told us that she worked one time for a man named Capt'n

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2017-02-16 Thread Mountain Man via Mercedes
--FT wrote: > If you want to hear some real Gullah... WOW!! Can you hear that? Some stuff leaks through but that is as foreign as French. Very nice!! Drilling / seismic-jazz? - that crosses too many boundaries and water is life. tin-man ___

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2017-02-16 Thread Kyle Arola via Mercedes
Love it! If I didn't have a farm I would so be there. You have to have a Q there so I have the excuse to come!!! Kyle On Feb 16, 2017 6:41 PM, "Floyd Thursby via Mercedes" wrote: > Come visit and you can live it here on my home Island! > > --R > > > On 2/16/17 6:39 PM,

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2017-02-16 Thread Kyle Arola via Mercedes
Gullah-Q!!! Kyle On Feb 16, 2017 6:42 PM, "Kyle Arola" wrote: > Love it! > If I didn't have a farm I would so be there. You have to have a Q there so > I have the excuse to come!!! > Kyle > > On Feb 16, 2017 6:41 PM, "Floyd Thursby via Mercedes" < >

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2017-02-16 Thread Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
Come visit and you can live it here on my home Island! --R On 2/16/17 6:39 PM, Kyle Arola via Mercedes wrote: Same basis as the Caribbean languages. Pigeon mix from the influence of several languages. Speaks to my soul. Kyle On Feb 16, 2017 6:25 PM, "Floyd Thursby via Mercedes"

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2017-02-16 Thread Kyle Arola via Mercedes
Same basis as the Caribbean languages. Pigeon mix from the influence of several languages. Speaks to my soul. Kyle On Feb 16, 2017 6:25 PM, "Floyd Thursby via Mercedes" wrote: > The languages are probably quite similar creole based on W African > languages and the local

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2017-02-16 Thread Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
The languages are probably quite similar creole based on W African languages and the local dialects of English and whatever else --FT On 2/16/17 5:56 PM, Kyle Arola via Mercedes wrote: Sounds awesome! I listen to a lot of Dancehall from the Caribbean and love those accents and speech

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2017-02-16 Thread Kyle Arola via Mercedes
Sounds awesome! I listen to a lot of Dancehall from the Caribbean and love those accents and speech patterns. Kyle On Feb 16, 2017 5:11 PM, "Floyd Thursby via Mercedes" wrote: > If you want to hear some real Gullah, tune in at 3:10 for a minute or so > to hear Queen Quet

[MBZ] OT Gullah

2017-02-16 Thread Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
If you want to hear some real Gullah, tune in at 3:10 for a minute or so to hear Queen Quet holding forth at an oyster roast I went to on Sunday afternoon near Folly Beach https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WtcTUSNRm4=youtu.be -- --FT Winston Churchill: “Never give in--never, never, never,

[MBZ] OT Gullah

2016-10-15 Thread Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
If you want to hear Queen Quet speaking Gullah go to about 1:30 then she switches to something you might find a bit more understandable. I actually picked up a good bit of what she was saying. http://www.spreaker.com/user/sevenonseven/s1e1-who-are-the-gullah-geechee-people-e -- --FT

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2015-06-01 Thread WILTON via Mercedes
Dawn no. Wilton - Original Message - From: Rich Thomas via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Cc: Rich Thomas richthomas79td...@constructivity.net Sent: Monday, June 01, 2015 12:19 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - Gullah baskets Wheh dat lady

[MBZ] OT - Gullah baskets

2015-05-31 Thread WILTON via Mercedes
Interesting piece about Gullah (near Chuckietown, SC) baskets on CBS's Sunday Morning. Wilton ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:

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2015-05-31 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
...@constructivity.net Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2015 11:22 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - Gullah baskets You gotta watch out -- some of the baskets sorta look nice to the tourists but aren't well made like a true artist does ( and there are a few of them around and their baskets are mighty spendy). My wife

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2015-05-31 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
You gotta watch out -- some of the baskets sorta look nice to the tourists but aren't well made like a true artist does ( and there are a few of them around and their baskets are mighty spendy). My wife, unfortunately, has learned the discernment... Miss Betsy she set up in de ro up dere n

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2015-05-31 Thread WILTON via Mercedes
Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Cc: Rich Thomas richthomas79td...@constructivity.net Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2015 11:22 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - Gullah baskets You gotta watch out -- some of the baskets sorta look nice to the tourists but aren't well made like a true artist does