How to Talk Minnesotan
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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 MechanicviiPrefaceix1Getting Started in Minnesotan12The Power of the Negative63Eating In in Minnesota134Basic Conversations235Dining Out in Minnesota346What to Say When You've Arrived427Talking Cars in Minnesota528Lutefisk599How We Write Our Poetry Here and What We Do with It6410Oh, For and Heckuva Deal7011Your Winter Vacation in Minnesota7912Books, Grants, and Fuel Oil8713Minnesota Doctors and Hospitals9514Talking Money and Road Repairs in Minnesota10415Romance and Marriage in Minnesota11416Living Off the Land, Snowbirds, and So ... Then12417Wyoming, Golf, and the Law, Minnesota-Style13418Non Sequiturs, Rebuttals, and Gifts14419Minnesota Psychiatry15420Cassettes, Mysteries, and Customs16021Though, Groves, Seniors, and Poker Parties16922Minnesota Body Language18023Directions, Church, Lake, and Cabin18824I Don't Know and Minnesota Firsts19625Lists, the Phone, For Sure, Saying Too Much20426The Minnesota Long Good-bye215Conclusion: Whatever221
