4 responses to “Quote of the Day”

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   Stan

   1 February 2016

   Where do figures of speech like “I tells ya” and “so I says” come from? They contradict the usual English grammar.

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      jbwarner86

      2 February 2016

      Popeye, mostly. And John Swartzwelder’s love of Popeye.

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         Canais Young

         2 February 2016

         I miss John Swartzwelder. His episodes (most of them) were, to me, the funniest.

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      Frank

      3 February 2016

      I guess you could say it was the “street vernacular” back at the turn of the 20th century, spoken by children and the less-educated. Think Little Rascals.
      I don’t know that it contributed to the joke in any way or to the context of the situation, but it’s just there.