Carol Perkins Talks About

We Kentuckians have our own way of speaking, don't we?  The buzz today was about the Kentuckian on American Idol whose last words were, "You all be careful."  One of the judges asked him if he was threatening them.  Obviously, they were clueless to our way to responding.  How many times have you visited people and left and someone said, "Be careful"  The judges thought he was threatening them?  Get real.  I'm sure that was staged.

I like our expressions.  "Ya'll come back"  "Be see'n you."  "Don't stay away so long."  "Good to see ya."  "Where you been forever? " Hurry back."  "Don't make yourself so scarce."  If those judges would hang out with us for a "spell" we might teach them how to talk.  "You reckon?"  Dialect is interesting; bad grammar is not.  There is a difference.