Authors: Howard Mohr
ISBN-13: 9780140092844, ISBN-10: 0140092846
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Date Published: August 1987
Edition: Reprint
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."
Foreword by Author's Mechanic | vii | |
Preface | ix | |
1 | Getting Started in Minnesotan | 1 |
2 | The Power of the Negative | 6 |
3 | Eating In in Minnesota | 13 |
4 | Basic Conversations | 23 |
5 | Dining Out in Minnesota | 34 |
6 | What to Say When You've Arrived | 42 |
7 | Talking Cars in Minnesota | 52 |
8 | Lutefisk | 59 |
9 | How We Write Our Poetry Here and What We Do with It | 64 |
10 | Oh, For and Heckuva Deal | 70 |
11 | Your Winter Vacation in Minnesota | 79 |
12 | Books, Grants, and Fuel Oil | 87 |
13 | Minnesota Doctors and Hospitals | 95 |
14 | Talking Money and Road Repairs in Minnesota | 104 |
15 | Romance and Marriage in Minnesota | 114 |
16 | Living Off the Land, Snowbirds, and So ... Then | 124 |
17 | Wyoming, Golf, and the Law, Minnesota-Style | 134 |
18 | Non Sequiturs, Rebuttals, and Gifts | 144 |
19 | Minnesota Psychiatry | 154 |
20 | Cassettes, Mysteries, and Customs | 160 |
21 | Though, Groves, Seniors, and Poker Parties | 169 |
22 | Minnesota Body Language | 180 |
23 | Directions, Church, Lake, and Cabin | 188 |
24 | I Don't Know and Minnesota Firsts | 196 |
25 | Lists, the Phone, For Sure, Saying Too Much | 204 |
26 | The Minnesota Long Good-bye | 215 |
Conclusion: Whatever | 221 |