Monday, July 31, 2000

Don’t you think that’s odd?

Colt has an unusual speech pattern that took me all of ten minutes to notice and another five to tire of. He has a slow Carolina drawl, which is endearing, but his habit of punctuating practically every conversation with a declarative sentence, followed by a question, and then another declarative annoys the hell out of me.

"I think that's odd," he'll say. "Don't you think that's odd? I think that's odd."

Sometimes the pattern will invert itself -- question, statement, question.

"Isn't that the damnedest thing you've ever seen? That's the damnedest thing I've ever seen. Isn't that the damnedest thing you've ever seen?"