Comments on: A funny Mormon Princess blog

By: Laura

Laura — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:46:56 +0000

Sure, it’s dumb, but hilariously dumb. If you read any real blogs like that, it’s downright creepy how dead-on it is. It’s overdone and that’s part of the humor, I think, since so many of those blogs really are that over-the-top. In all seriousness I’ve seen people spell Powell Pal and yes, “pitchers.” Very clever parody.

By: Carrie

Carrie — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 05:07:01 +0000

I loved this blog the first two weeks of its existence. About two weeks ago, it took a turn for the worse and ceased being funny.. It’s turned into a caricature of a caricature, and that is never a good thing. Little misspellings, like “fill”, were funny, but when EVERY WORD that has it’s own obvious regional pronunciation is misspelled, like “melk” and “pitchers” and “PAL” (really?), then I grow weary. I miss the subtle cleverness that it started off with.

By: Pumpkin

Pumpkin — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:27:44 +0000

Nate,
I accept your apology and offer my own for overreacting at what was apparently a misunderstanding. I know I should stop and think before firing off posts, and I should give others the benefit of the doubt more often. I’m sorry!
Cincinnatus,
Though my dad’s side of the family is from various locations in Utah, I was raised in Oklahoma where people’s accents vary by region, education, and level of redneckiness.

By: Jessie

Jessie — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:36:54 +0000

So, I was reading the comments on that blog, and laughed my a$$ off at a certain comment by Mr. Abraham Lincoln himself! She is seriously, so blessed that Mr. Lincoln could take the time to drop by her website and contribute.

You crack me up.

By: Cincinnatus

Cincinnatus — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:10:09 +0000

“but I think rude people like that need to think twice before discounting someone’s memories.”

Pumpkin,
Now just change the word memories to accents.
Where are you from anyway?

By: octavia

octavia — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:41:21 +0000

If I take a step back, I think that blog is probably really funny, and I know it’s satire and blah blah blah, but right at this moment it feels a little too real to be funny. I wish I taught fewer BYU students whose lives sound like that, and more who find that kind of attitude disturbing.

Hey AdamOndi, are you the same AdamOndi from the consumerist comments?

By: Nate

Nate — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:36:43 +0000

Pumpkin,

I am deeply sorry that I upset you so much with my remarks. I had no intention to offend you or anyone.

I realize that I didn’t structure my comment all that well and what I meant to convey was not what came across. I certainly hope that it doesn’t land me on one of those bad comments posts Eric occasionally posts. I was in no way attempting to tell you that you didn’t experience the Utah accent. I was merely pointing out that in my experience (although neither of my degrees is in linguistics, so I am less adept at nuances) the accent to which you refer occurs most commonly in the rural areas of Utah and Idaho.

My comment about never experiencing Provo was meant for the readership in general and I obviously did not create any sort of segue between audiences.

Again I am sorry if I offended you. If you would still like to punch me in the face, I’m sure that can be arranged somehow.

By: Pumpkin

Pumpkin — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:26:22 +0000

Thanks, but my regular dosage of Cymbalta should do nicely. Just send the award.
And in my defense, I don’t think his remarks were particularly innocuous. If I had made a comment about some fact or opinion and someone had proven me wrong, I would have been fine with it and grateful for the accurate information. But to respond to my comment about remembering hearing a particular accent by saying “hard to describe if you haven’t experienced it” is offensive to me and brings out my urge to punch that person in his respective face. It may be an overreaction, but I think rude people like that need to think twice before discounting someone’s memories. It’s as if I said “This happened to me” and he said “No it didn’t.” What am I supposed to do? Say, “Oh, you’re right. It didn’t. How silly of me”?

By: Eric D. Snider

Eric D. Snider — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:16:21 +0000

And Pumpkin wins this week’s award for Most Combative Response to an Innocuous Remark! Your bottle of chill pills is in the mail!

By: Pumpkin

Pumpkin — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:54:40 +0000

Nate,
What makes you think I haven’t experienced something I claim to know about? Are you the authority on Utah and accents? As it so happens, I lived in Provo for several years, my dad is from Ogden, I spent a lot of time with my cousins in Ogden while growing up, my brother married a girl from Bountiful, and because of my degree in Linguistics I am more observant of the nuances of the English language. I’m not a moron; I know what the Utah accent is, I’ve heard it my whole life, and if you are so rude to assume I don’t know what I’m talking about then you’re an arrogant jerk. And if you are referring to SLC as “the more highly populated areas of the state,” which I can only assume because it’s the biggest city in Utah, then the reason you wouldn’t hear much of a Utah accent from the people there is because it’s Utah’s most cosmopolitan city. If you think what I’m calling the “Utah accent” is restricted to rural areas, then you must think Odgen, Bountiful, Farmington, Provo, Orem, Kaysville, etc. are all “rural.”