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How to Talk Minnesotan » (Reprint)

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Authors: Howard Mohr
ISBN-13: 9780140092844, ISBN-10: 0140092846
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Date Published: August 1987
Edition: Reprint

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Author Biography: Howard Mohr

Book Synopsis

Now you can cultivate authentic Minnesota pronunciation, vocabulary, and colloquialisms from the man who wrote the book on it. Speak with confidence when using Minnesota words and phrases to make indirect commands and statements. Feel at ease constructing whole conversations based on "the weather" and "car talk." Learn the subtle differences of "lunch," "dinner," and "a little lunch." Plus, added at no extra cost, useful messages from Raw Bits Cereal, Pentagon Overstocks, and Polka Pants Industries. Not to mention classic Howard Mohr prose pieces on the "art of waving" and "where I live and what I burn for fuel."

Table of Contents

Foreword by Author's Mechanicvii
Prefaceix
1Getting Started in Minnesotan1
2The Power of the Negative6
3Eating In in Minnesota13
4Basic Conversations23
5Dining Out in Minnesota34
6What to Say When You've Arrived42
7Talking Cars in Minnesota52
8Lutefisk59
9How We Write Our Poetry Here and What We Do with It64
10Oh, For and Heckuva Deal70
11Your Winter Vacation in Minnesota79
12Books, Grants, and Fuel Oil87
13Minnesota Doctors and Hospitals95
14Talking Money and Road Repairs in Minnesota104
15Romance and Marriage in Minnesota114
16Living Off the Land, Snowbirds, and So ... Then124
17Wyoming, Golf, and the Law, Minnesota-Style134
18Non Sequiturs, Rebuttals, and Gifts144
19Minnesota Psychiatry154
20Cassettes, Mysteries, and Customs160
21Though, Groves, Seniors, and Poker Parties169
22Minnesota Body Language180
23Directions, Church, Lake, and Cabin188
24I Don't Know and Minnesota Firsts196
25Lists, the Phone, For Sure, Saying Too Much204
26The Minnesota Long Good-bye215
Conclusion: Whatever221

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