Reply To: Is Your Fifth-Grader Smarter Than a Breadbox?: Twenty Questions 3.0
When you’re feeling better, could you try to explain that? Because I do not get that at all.
My apology. Let me be clear. I have little understanding for complex math equations but am very impressed with your and Agent Lex’s banter.
“Ja sure, you betcha” is the way many people of Northern European descent who settled the upper Midwest gave their approval for something they liked or agreed with. If they were indifferent, they might say “whatever.” If they vehemently disagreed, some were known to have said, “That’s different.”
You see, many of these people (whom I knew very well) could be said to have had little outward emotion. It was considered impolite to do so. Subtlety was the rule. Times have changed, though, with a newer generation blending cultures and adopting a more cosmopolitan dialect. I certainly don’t mean to generalize but when you hear this in farming communities time after time, it cannot be denied as an anthropological characteristic of speech.