Thanks to the glider pilot clones in Austria

I received this e-mail from my 16-year-old daughter who has been in
Austria about 25 km south of St. Pölten for nine months on a high
school exchange. Before she left soaring was just one of those things
her strange dad did. Now it is cool. The short wing comment is
because my previous plane was a Nimbus 2. Not sure which club she saw,
but I hope to visit the area in the future and take a flight. I assume
this was south of St. Pölten a few km.


Subject: You have clones in Austria

Dad,

Yesterday we were driving to St.Pölten and I saw this guy that kind of
reminded me of you (he had the soaring hat on) and I was like, that is
so not normal for here, he was just wandering around in a field you
see. So then we drive for a minute and I'm thinking how cool it is to
come home and see you guys and then I see all of these guys with the
hats and then like 5 gliders (the wings were fo' sho' shorter than
yours though) and they were all laid out in a field and I was like "hey
hey, look - my dad does that" and it was cool. The mountains here are
pretty small but yesterday was a really nice day so yeah...just thought
that I would tell you.

TTaylor at cc.usu.edu wrote:
I received this e-mail from my 16-year-old daughter who has been in
Austria about 25 km south of St. Pölten for nine months on a high
school exchange. Before she left soaring was just one of those things
her strange dad did. Now it is cool. The short wing comment is
because my previous plane was a Nimbus 2. Not sure which club she saw,
but I hope to visit the area in the future and take a flight. I assume
this was south of St. Pölten a few km.


Subject: You have clones in Austria

Dad,

Yesterday we were driving to St.Pölten and I saw this guy that kind of
reminded me of you (he had the soaring hat on) and I was like, that is
so not normal for here, he was just wandering around in a field you
see. So then we drive for a minute and I'm thinking how cool it is to
come home and see you guys and then I see all of these guys with the
hats and then like 5 gliders (the wings were fo' sho' shorter than
yours though) and they were all laid out in a field and I was like "hey
hey, look - my dad does that" and it was cool. The mountains here are
pretty small but yesterday was a really nice day so yeah...just thought
that I would tell you.

TTaylor at cc.usu.edu wrote:
I received this e-mail from my 16-year-old daughter who has been in
Austria about 25 km south of St. Pölten for nine months on a high
school exchange. Before she left soaring was just one of those things
her strange dad did. Now it is cool. The short wing comment is
because my previous plane was a Nimbus 2. Not sure which club she saw,
but I hope to visit the area in the future and take a flight. I assume
this was south of St. Pölten a few km.


Subject: You have clones in Austria

Dad,

Yesterday we were driving to St.Pölten and I saw this guy that kind of
reminded me of you (he had the soaring hat on) and I was like, that is
so not normal for here, he was just wandering around in a field you
see. So then we drive for a minute and I'm thinking how cool it is to
come home and see you guys and then I see all of these guys with the
hats and then like 5 gliders (the wings were fo' sho' shorter than
yours though) and they were all laid out in a field and I was like "hey
hey, look - my dad does that" and it was cool. The mountains here are
pretty small but yesterday was a really nice day so yeah...just thought
that I would tell you.

I knew that people under the age of thirty cannot speak without
scattering the word "like" throughout there comments. I had no idea
they also wrote that way!

Heartwarming. Thanks for sharing (it is getting close to father's
day).

Regards,
Craig

wrote:

I knew that people under the age of thirty cannot speak without
scattering the word "like" throughout there comments. I had no idea
they also wrote that way!

You must not live around any teenagers these days. Yes they really do
speak and write that way. Reminds me of the first time I saw "Ya'll"
written. I thought it was bad enough that so many speak it, I could
not believe it would be written as well.

Tim

TTaylor at cc.usu.edu wrote:
wrote:

I had no idea they also wrote that way!

Yes they really do speak and write that way.

You should see the code they use when using their cell phones (or
worse, Crackberries) when communicating with the newfangled "instant
messaging" system.

-Pete

TTaylor at cc.usu.edu wrote:
wrote:


I knew that people under the age of thirty cannot speak without
scattering the word "like" throughout there comments. I had no idea
they also wrote that way!


You must not live around any teenagers these days. Yes they really do
speak and write that way. Reminds me of the first time I saw "Ya'll"
written. I thought it was bad enough that so many speak it, I could
not believe it would be written as well.

Tim

Ah well - my 12 year old daughter like can't complete a sentence without at
least one "like". And the 8 year old son speaks an even stranger dialect -
however - they both enjoy gliding.

I will no doubt continue my education in exotic Gen-X linguistics, it is really
no worse than trying to decipher many of my friends and colleagues.

For what it is worth - Vowlence is what you get when a South African third
language English speaker inadvertently pronounces words without half the
letters. (For an idea try listening to many of our politicians - (they have
often had the benefit of speech coaching so you can imagine what a labourer from
Lusikisiki sounds like)

PS - I trust all ya'll know the plural of Ya'll.