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Local speech. What does I don't care to do that? mean George Kolbenschlag writes: Ed: Your comments on Sharon Whitehurst's Gradyville article on Gradyvillian is a masterpiece. I learned much reading that and will feel much more comfortable on my trips to Gradyville now. However, I don't like to go out there too much as I don't want a nickname. A Fromoffer, I have been here over 20 years and still don't know what "I don't care to do that" means. Does it mean, "I don't care, I'll do that," or "I don't want to do it?" So when someone tells me "I don't care to do that" I just say, "OK" and wait a few days to see wether it gets done or not." That seems to work fine unless I'm asking for help putting out a fire. - George KolbenschlagThanks for you kind comments. A very interesting question you pose about I don't care to do that. The answer could probably only come from the pen and lips of Bailey White, who wrote the most charming essay on NPR on the nuances and exact opposite meanings of "Bless his/her heart." But I never cease to wonder at the talent right here in Adair County, so we can hope for homegrown explanation. Nicknames aren't all bad. My two favorites are my oldest grandson's "Ad-Dad," which he soon outgrew but I loved, and the appellation bestowed on me by Woodrow I, Judge of all vast Metcalfe County for so long a lot of people think there is, was, and always shall be only Woodrow Wilson. When I was the esteemed editor of one of Kentucky great weekly newspapers, The Edmonton Herald-News, Judge Wilson addressed me as "Paperboy," not, "Judge Bingham," or "Marse Ed," or "Your Exalted Editorship." The nickname didn't catch too widely, except for John Paul Blevins, Jim Walden, Tommy Wallace and Snookums Nunn, who forever afterward called me "Paperboy," and that was enough to give it an eternity of use. I suppose if I were buried in the Edmonton City Cemetery someone would be sure to chisel "Paperboy," under my name on the marker. Such was the abosolute, lasting power of a Woodrow I utterance. -EW This story was posted on 2011-03-12 11:09:01
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