This weekend my boyfriend and I went to the movies to see Where the Wild Things Are. First off, the movie was really cute! (Oh, and side note: the website is very nice and suits the movie perfectly. It's probably the graphic designer in me coming out, but I thought the website was really fun to poke through. I highly recommend checking it out.)
Anyway, my boyfriend and I have a little joke we bounce back and forth about the title of this movie. Instead of calling it Where the Wild Things Are we like to say "where them wild things at?" but with a southern drawl. So it ends up sounding more like "Where dem wald thangs at?" It's silly but... actually it's pretty much said for the sake of its silliness.
So it surprised me when the two of us were buying our tickets and the woman collecting our tickets called the movie Where the Wild Things At. She spoke in a southern accent too! I caught it immediately and smiled to myself. When I glanced over at my boyfriend however, he did not seem to catch on. Later I mentioned to him that she had pronounced it incorrectly, the way we jokingly say it, and he was so surprised he did not notice.
I found it interesting that when the two of us say the title of this movie with improper grammar it sounds silly, but when the woman who had collected our tickets said the same words in a different way it passed without notice. We both knew exactly what movie she was talking about even though she had not said the title correctly. It's funny how little mistakes in language can seem perfectly correct in certain situations, depending on how the person says it and in what context.
-kp
Anyway, my boyfriend and I have a little joke we bounce back and forth about the title of this movie. Instead of calling it Where the Wild Things Are we like to say "where them wild things at?" but with a southern drawl. So it ends up sounding more like "Where dem wald thangs at?" It's silly but... actually it's pretty much said for the sake of its silliness.
So it surprised me when the two of us were buying our tickets and the woman collecting our tickets called the movie Where the Wild Things At. She spoke in a southern accent too! I caught it immediately and smiled to myself. When I glanced over at my boyfriend however, he did not seem to catch on. Later I mentioned to him that she had pronounced it incorrectly, the way we jokingly say it, and he was so surprised he did not notice.
I found it interesting that when the two of us say the title of this movie with improper grammar it sounds silly, but when the woman who had collected our tickets said the same words in a different way it passed without notice. We both knew exactly what movie she was talking about even though she had not said the title correctly. It's funny how little mistakes in language can seem perfectly correct in certain situations, depending on how the person says it and in what context.
-kp
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