See? From this sign, I can start to piece together a dialect:
Apparently Cowboy does not have a word for "6". Cowboys can only count to 5. This makes sense.
Sunday, 22 March 2009
How to speak Cowboy.
You know how in some places they have bumpy letters under the American ones? Or Mexican under the American words? Well in Denver, they have Cowboy hieroglyphs. Does this mean that somewhere out there, in schools on the frontier, they still speak in cowboy?
See? From this sign, I can start to piece together a dialect:
Apparently Cowboy does not have a word for "6". Cowboys can only count to 5. This makes sense.
See? From this sign, I can start to piece together a dialect:Apparently Cowboy does not have a word for "6". Cowboys can only count to 5. This makes sense.
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Actually these "cowboy hieroglyphics" were designed by college educated city slickers with more education than knowledge (Refer to the old cowboy saying: You may have read the reading right, but are you sure the one who wrote the reading, wrote the reading right?")
If you want a real lesson in Cowboy-ese visit http://cowboyreality.blogspot.com/2008/12/cowboyese-or-learning-cowboy-lingo.html
We cowboys still exist and have to count to the thousands to keep track of our boss's cattle... Heck, 5 short wouldn't even be worth mentioning...
Bob Kinford
2lazy4U Livestock & Literary Co
http://www.2lazy4u.us
Thank you for this excellent clarification, Pardner! I am not a cowboy, but upon arriving in Denver, I was so confused by what I saw that I assumed that's what that was: cowboy-ese.
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