Anyone else find themselves blurting Calla-speak after reading this?

[AntD NineNineteen]

I was talking to my girlfriend while I was nearing the end of Wolves and I unintentionally threw her a "thankee sai". I just finished my second reading and more than once I've caught myself almost replying to someone with Calla phrases. It would be one thing if they've read the book, then it would be funny, but most of my friends don't read much at all so I would prolly just come off sounding foolish. Wondering if anyone else has experienced this. I don't mean doing it on purpose but accidentally.

[JohnDalglish]

Hi,

What? Me?

Never LOL.

Long days and pleasant nights

[muskrat]

I find myself putting "do ya" at the end of many of my sentences. Love me some Calla Bryn Sturgis!

[nate_watkins]

Mayhap I have, and mayhap I haven't. :oo:

[Pucker]

I wouldn't worry about it too much if I were you, Ant.

As a communicative species we tend to be fond of affectation, and simple good manners often dictate we not point out when our fellows cross over from mildy amusing to genuinely irritating. In my day, it was people walking around pretending to be Yoda. If it ever gets to the point where you start noticing your speech being dominated by adopted slang, I would suggest reading Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange. There's nothing like some different nonsense to put the previous nonsense right back in its place.

:wink2:

[GNTLGNT]

"Thankee", and "Ka" dribble off the lips more than not-and people who aren't "in the know" gimmee that-"step away from the large human" look...

[Lencho_of_the_Apes]

Somebody said 'thankee-sai' to me once, a person I didn't know very well, that I'd never had any SK interaction with... He became a good friend after that.

We all float down here.

[JohnDalglish]

simple good manners often dictate we not point out when our fellows cross over from mildy amusing to genuinely irritating.

Hi,

How true these words are, even today!

May it do ya fine!

Long days and pleasant nights

[Cowboy]

Do you kennit? comes up quite a bit in my family.

[Cthulhu4u]

That is one thing that struck me odd about the series. All of the characters from "our world' stayed in the calla for about a week and suddenly spoke in callla-speak for the rest of the series. I know it is common for people to pick up up vocal patterns, but that seems pretty quick to me. Oh well, great series non the less. I have never spoken calla-speech, but I will catch myself thinking in it after a reread. Also, I've caught myself thinking in a maine accent now and again after reading King or Lovecraft.

[costanza]

There's also the part were Eddie is afraid that he's going to look foolish trying to ride a horse until he gets on the horse ends up looking as natural as can be. Almost like he's done it all before. ;)
It's all nineteen, ifyaknowwhatimean.

[blunthead]

I found it a joy reading Calla speech; one of my favorite sK experiences, so far. My favorite Calla speech event happened when Roland and the tet had called the meeting wherein everyone discussed what to do about the Wolves' imminent attack; the old guy who spoke and sK describing his Calla accent as so thick as to be almost unintelligible, and then wrote it that way.

[AntD NineNineteen]

I wouldn't worry about it too much if I were you, Ant.

:wink2:

I think I worded my OP a bit wrong. It is always funny to me, maybe more so if the person I'm talking to doesn't know what the hell I'm talking about, or if it goes completely unnoticed which is somehow even funnier. I don't care about sounding foolish, I do it often! :biggrin2:

[AntD NineNineteen]

Another instance of this was after I watched the movie "Fargo", although I would do this more or less intentionally rather than letting it slip out. I thought that dialect was hilarious, all due respect to those who live in that area. I know it was exaggerated for comedic effect.
Yaaaahh, OH-kay then.

[KaLikeWind]

I use terms like "Ka", "Ka-tet", "palaver", "thankee sai", and "sai" all the ****ing time... It happens... People look at me strange... The people I want to keep in my life have started reading The Dark Tower novels so they can understand me...

[tashariddle]

you say true sai! i hear ya very well!! :biggrin2:

[howibrokemyhead]

That is one thing that struck me odd about the series. All of the characters from "our world' stayed in the calla for about a week and suddenly spoke in callla-speak for the rest of the series. I know it is common for people to pick up up vocal patterns, but that seems pretty quick to me. Oh well, great series non the less. I have never spoken calla-speech, but I will catch myself thinking in it after a reread. Also, I've caught myself thinking in a maine accent now and again after reading King or Lovecraft.

My father's family is french, and even hanging out with them for as short of time as a week I start talking like them... It's surprising how quickly it happens! Maybe some people are more prone to adopting another dialect faster than others, but it always happens to me!! Haha!

[tashariddle]

That is one thing that struck me odd about the series. All of the characters from "our world' stayed in the calla for about a week and suddenly spoke in callla-speak for the rest of the series. I know it is common for people to pick up up vocal patterns, but that seems pretty quick to me. Oh well, great series non the less. I have never spoken calla-speech, but I will catch myself thinking in it after a reread. Also, I've caught myself thinking in a maine accent now and again after reading King or Lovecraft.


having grown up in several different parts of maine, i can tell you that it's really not that far off the mark for the ka-tet to pick up on "calla apeak" the way they do. i lived on the passamaquoddy indian reservation, until i was 5, where we have a completely different accent from the people in princeton who live right across a bridge! i find myself speaking with that accent when talking to anyone from there. i was also raised in aroostook county for a time picking up what you would call the "maine" accent which i slip into when i am there. (large amounts of alcohol bring it on sometimes as well.... :biggrin2:) finally, i have lived some of my adult life "downeast" as we call it and that is a THICK maine accent, which i find myself lapsing into while i am there. so really it's not all that hard for me to see them picking up on calla-speak as quickly as they do. * :oo: * (woah)

[DATRUF]

I've been saying thankee for the past 2 months.

[ghost19]

I was talking to my girlfriend while I was nearing the end of Wolves and I unintentionally threw her a "thankee sai". I just finished my second reading and more than once I've caught myself almost replying to someone with Calla phrases. It would be one thing if they've read the book, then it would be funny, but most of my friends don't read much at all so I would prolly just come off sounding foolish. Wondering if anyone else has experienced this. I don't mean doing it on purpose but accidentally.

Yep, guilty as charged. I've read the books so many times, I do this quite often. My wife tells me its just another confirmation for her that I am, in fact, crazy.:dunno:

[ghost19]

Hailing from Southern Arkansas originally, when I moved to Northern Arkansas, I was very surprised at how much more for lack of a better word "city-fied" everyone sounded. I inherited the nickname "hillbilly" pretty quickly at my new school just on the basis of my moving 300 miles north...now it only comes out when I'm 1)inebriated, 2)really pissed off, or 3)bitching about the Razorbacks during a football game. My wife, being a "flat-lander" from Indiana, thinks its quite hilarious. Strangely enough, my seven year old son snaps off several southern Arkansas drawls when he speaks, which is strange because he was born where we live now.....hick DNA I suppose..lol

[fushingfeef]

I use "mayhaps" quite a bit, to the point where even my wife has started saying it, even though she hasn't read any Stephen King books!

I am very fond of the phrase "we are very well met" but I have yet to use it in practice.

[momone53]

Hi, I'm new here; I found this board because I was looking for other tower junkies. I have been reading a while and this is the first thread I really identified with. I find myself often saying "if it do ya" and I have caught myself referring to my boss as "sai". He doesn't quite know what to make of that.

[tower-obsession]

I have. Quite a few times. I love the expressions from the books.

[J.T. Adams]

Of course we have, thankee sai, antD.

[lenona]

Just finished reading this book. And yes, I have.

[ladymindful]

The language of the Calla is very pleasing to the ears. After reading, yes, it is easy to incorporate the words into your daily discourse. I like the Calla because ofcthe interesting characters that dwell there.

[ladymindful]

After reading the book it is hard not to speak words of the Calla. I think this book is my favorite of all seven. One falls in love with the Calla and the people who inhabit that unique piece of mid-world.

[Stan_Richards_of_Windsor]

I only do it with my best friend cause he can understand. However with normal people I still use "palaver" and "Long Days and Pleasant Nights". Bus Drivers laugh at that, by the way.

[dsurrett]

Calla-speak! Of course not.
Long days and pleasant nights, and thankee sai for the post.

[not_nadine]

I have not started DT series yet (I know, I know) But from Desperation, I do yell out a random "TAK!" at times.

[Connie Reader]

all. the. time.

Say thankya

[Elemeno P]

Imagine a Calla TV show.

[nancy cosgrove]

When I posted daily requests for help on my farm on my Face-Book account I always finished it off with"Thankee kindlee folks".I never found it strange.Write the word "kindlee" automatically now.

[clarisse]

yes, frequently, thankee being the main one.. only started the books a few months ago & I`m hooked,
Sai King, thankee big big:biggrin2:

[CarrieJo]

Oh yes. But I do this with a lot of different things. I get a couple quotes from things stuck in my head and they come out all of the time. I speak a lot of George Lopez and Daniel Tosh too. People that know me are used to it.

[blunthead]

I only do it with my best friend cause he can understand. However with normal people I still use "palaver" and "Long Days and Pleasant Nights". Bus Drivers laugh at that, by the way.What are "normal people", or do you mean people who are "normal", and how can you know, and why am I asking you, anyway?

I use Thankee routinely nowadays. Didn't used to. I like it, gonna keep doing it.

[Connie Reader]

I just turned my best friend's husband onto DT and within three days he was asking me if I would like a popkin. It doesn't take long lol!!

Watching the show Being Human last night and one of the characters told another that they 'needed to palaver'.
sweet.

[hustle111]

yesterday i was shooting a few target rounds for the first time since starting DT and immediately thought "I aim with my eye. I shoot with my mind. I kill with my heart." ... he who does otherwise has forgotten the face of his father

[not_nadine]

Yes, I do. And I like it.

I think it really comes out in E-mails, I say true.

[ghost19]

"Do you kennit" comes out of my mouth a lot, even if I haven't read the books in while. It just sounds better, but doesn't seem to get my point across as people just stare at me blinking.........my wife says it just confirms what she has known for 17 years....that I'm.......different.

[unclelouie]

Mayhap I do... mayhap I dont, say thankya...

[John Of Newcastle]

mayhap i do too! my friends nd family havent read the dark tower books so they have no idea wat im talkin about wen i tell them they have forgot the face of their father, or wen i say thankya or even long days and pleasant nights! They dont know what they r missing really!!

[Shoesalesman]

Big-Big reminds me of Jar Jar Binks, so I stay clear of this one.
I've said Thankya a few times since starting Wolves, but it just comes out like a Dukes Of Hazzard sound-bite, Coy and Vance era. :down: