Palin Sounds Canadian

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Sarah Palin just showed up in USA north, also known as Calgary. The CTV news commented on the fact that some in the US think she has a Canadian accent. Where did that come from? Never have I heard a Canadian use expressions like "gol-darn" and "you betcha," not to mention a bunch of other Alaskanisms. To me she sounds like she stepped right out of Southpark.
 
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Bar Sinister said:
Sarah Palin just showed up in USA north, also known as Calgary. The CTV news commented on the fact that some in the US think she has a Canadian accent. Where did that come from? Never have I heard a Canadian use expressions like "gol-darn" and "you betcha," not to mention a bunch of other Alaskanisms. To me she sounds like she stepped right out of Southpark.
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Goldarn!

You betcha!

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Bar Sinister said:
Sarah Palin just showed up in USA north, also known as Calgary. The CTV news commented on the fact that some in the US think she has a Canadian accent. Where did that come from? Never have I heard a Canadian use expressions like "gol-darn" and "you betcha," not to mention a bunch of other Alaskanisms. To me she sounds like she stepped right out of Southpark.
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I have heard those expressions used. "You betcha" you can find all over Alberta, especially in rural/blue collar settings. "Gol-darn" isn't as prevalent and tends to be something you here from "strongly religious" people (and mostly 50+ years) who want to say " god damned" and are trying to get around the whole "thou shalt not take the name of the lord in vain" thing.

As far as the "Canadian accent" I still don't know WTH people are talking about. My wife and stepson tease me about it all the time (I live in the subs of Pittsburgh now, born, raised and lived all but the last 8 months in Alberta). I don't say "eh" a lot, although that expression is prevalent with a lot of Brits as well. They key on the way I say words like "out" and "about" (but they pronounce "roof" as "ruff" and don't know what to call the last letter of the alphabet)..
 
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sarah plain does not even know where new hampshire was.... she calls it north west...

its northeast. for god shakes... sad sad day for a women who has no clue about the country she lives in.
 
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sad sad day for a women who has no clue about the country she lives in.
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Poor Sarah; successful career, best-selling author, becoming richer by the day, adored by millions, hated by Liberals. Poor, poor thing.
 
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Anyway, Joan of Arc will feel quite at home in Alberta; it is Canada’s Bible Belt after all. Bar’s original post does not mention what she was doing in Alberta; it wouldn’t surprise me if the local religious right people invited her. I understand religious right is very strong in Alberta.
 
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218 times for "Joan of Arc" and the forum stopped counting at 500 for the term "Religious Right".... S P A you are nothing if not absolutely predictable.....:roll::roll:

I made a bet with myself that you couldn't help posting in this thread within ten posts and there you are with the same old blather and pompous rhetoric ....:lol::roll:
 
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Anyway, Joan of Arc will feel quite at home in Alberta; it is Canada’s Bible Belt after all. Bar’s original post does not mention what she was doing in Alberta; it wouldn’t surprise me if the local religious right people invited her. I understand religious right is very strong in Alberta.
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That's because you keep telling yourself it is. lol Have you any idea how much of AB is religious, strongly religious, or not religious? My guess would be probably not.



So which province is more of a "Bible Belt" in Canada? roflmao

I love it when people stick their faces out and start babbling before engaging their brain.
 
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wulfie68 said:
I have heard those expressions used. "You betcha" you can find all over Alberta, especially in rural/blue collar settings. "Gol-darn" isn't as prevalent and tends to be something you here from "strongly religious" people (and mostly 50+ years) who want to say " god damned" and are trying to get around the whole "thou shalt not take the name of the lord in vain" thing.

As far as the "Canadian accent" I still don't know WTH people are talking about. My wife and stepson tease me about it all the time (I live in the subs of Pittsburgh now, born, raised and lived all but the last 8 months in Alberta). I don't say "eh" a lot, although that expression is prevalent with a lot of Brits as well. They key on the way I say words like "out" and "about" (but they pronounce "roof" as "ruff" and don't know what to call the last letter of the alphabet)..
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You could be right. I have not associated with every Albertan so I cannot say for certain that no one uses "gol-darn or "you betcha." However, I have lived here since 1958 and have come across no one that does. Be that as it may, Alberta is not all of Canada and to say that Palin sounds Canadian is a bit of a stretch.
 
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Bar Sinister said:
You could be right. I have not associated with every Albertan so I cannot say for certain that no one uses "gol-darn or "you betcha." However, I have lived here since 1958 and have come across no one that does. Be that as it may, Alberta is not all of Canada and to say that Palin sounds Canadian is a bit of a stretch.
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Yeah. We have an Alaskan neighbor. He definitely is an transplant to this area.
We use "you betcha" around here. " Last time I heard "goldarn" I think it was Walt Disney's Goofy that said it. :D
 
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AnnaG said:
That's because you keep telling yourself it is. lol Have you any idea how much of AB is religious, strongly religious, or not religious? My guess would be probably not.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Alberta_Population_by_Religion.PNG
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c2/Religion_in_Ontario.png

So which province is more of a "Bible Belt" in Canada? roflmao

I love it when people stick their faces out and start babbling before engaging their brain.
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Kindly refrain from clouding the issue with facts! :lol::lol::lol:
 
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218 times for "Joan of Arc" and the forum stopped counting at 500 for the term "Religious Right".... S P A you are nothing if not absolutely predictable.....:roll::roll:

I made a bet with myself that you couldn't help posting in this thread within ten posts and there you are with the same old blather and pompous rhetoric ....:lol::roll:
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Well, the post got under your skin, didn’t it? So it served its purpose. Its purpose was to make at least one conservative apoplectic.

And I notice that you did not have any response to the substance of my post. Joan of Arc probably visited Alberta because the local religious right invited her. Alberta may be perhaps the only place in Canada where she may be popular. She is intensely disliked in most of Canada and in most of USA (with the exception of some Bible Belt states, of course).

Even among the far right, she has lost popularity. The straw poll at the CPAC convention put Ron Paul first and (horrors!), Mitt Romney second. Joan of Arc got a whopping 7% votes.

So I can see why she visited Alberta, she probably wouldn’t be welcome anywhere else in Canada.

But of course you had no response for that. So you were reduced to heckling.
 
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