The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1904-03-19
Go Way back and sit down

| ~ WY cetSh ebitu uUWH (.
| Go Way back and sit down !: YOU Crat
chaser and Brush the mulet scales from
your eyes: and take nap. And after
your nap you should take a course Of
schooling and learn to read and write.
AS your portigee Words Are hard in
deed to Pronounce In the note YOU plsc-
ed in the Echo some few weeks. 90 In
answer to Miss F. It was not aserab
chaser that tryed to answerI. it must
have been some 10 cent Counter JumpiY1c
doodle that was by, chance 10 Wing over 4 4
Borrowed paper White bc was smoking
a clga .baL hf picked Np ION the
sIfas1 fsQts way NJ adlle zihos lrug \
R.lI ss asH 1la1ll ne Would ez6pfess him,
Tie zbesSA5f bis aBflity III trying q
lnforme the young Man what he had bet
ter do; Go way back and Sit down after
you read this And don't get offended be-
cause crabs will play out Some day. and
Mulets Will Swim to deep to be Saned
and then you some friends. Write pain
In few weeks and let us see If you arc
improving
lfyou have no paper and Pen will
sehu you some By.By
|, the undersigned contributor, have
had published the foregoing series of
misinterpretations of "Queen's English"
for the delectation of the general public
who know will appreciate this back
woods word jum5le as though it were a
rare exotic from the gardens OF some
connoisseur. also, my dear public, re-
produce this letter for the benefit of its
egotistical writer as it is abundantly es
sential that he be corrected before some
thing happens that might probably hold
him up for humiliation before a mirtb.-
loving public. see that it behooyes me
to establish myself as a teacher in this
instance for the delectation OF my un-
sophisticated presumably young) ego
tist. Therefore: Young man, Il say |
YOUNG, because 1t is foregone conclu-
sion that no man OF experience would 40 |
Jeopardize his social status by writing
such an epistle) you are what our la |
menteG Mr.. Brann, OF Iconoclastic fame. |
would term "An intellectual misconcep- |
tion." However, we give you the bene- |
fit OF the doubt, as is done in extreme
cases, as we are of the opinion that you |
might yet be rescued by strenuous ef- |
fort on the part Of your friends.
We know that the following pointers |
IN letter-writing will not come amiss:
1. Be extremeful careful in the. use OF |
capital letters and never use them so in |
discriminately-it is very bad form.
z. Never use word unless you are
thoroughly in touch, as It were, with ito
definition. It's bad taste. |
.. Beware Of over-punctuation. Moth |
ing SO mars the aspect of letter, and it
is wretched form.
a. When word is admitted in sen-
tence and correction IS necessary all i
ways use a carat (A) in the sentence
where application is essential to the sem
benoe.
Will dispense with the "pointers" to
remark that it is a matter OF great sur
prise to me that YOU are SO totally un-
acquainted with what's known as "back-
woods dialect" coming as you presuma-
DIV do from the core of the bGck woods
where the speech is so common.
This peculiar construction of English
has a little sphere Of its own and even its
everyday users are wholly ignorant Of
It's version. The manifestation OF your
lnadulterated ignorance bears me out In
the assertion.
1t is crying pity that our brainless
will 50 persist in a public
demonstration Of their ignorance. espe-
clally through the columns Of newspa-
per as you, Mr.. W., have the temerity of
doing, and we certainly trust that this
will be an object lesson which will cause !
you to refrain from an over-indulgence !
Of criticism that can only tend to make a |
show Of your vapid inferiority.
We have "Mr. WIS letter on file at
The Echo office, where it may be seen
by anyone.
We have been rather light ov the gen.
ileman, but cannot 50 promise the next
time. Hereafter only letters accompan-
led by the writer's real name viii be-
noticed. REUBEN pITcHFopx