# Yankees\_1996\_Champs: troll or dumbass **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 9, 2020, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yankees-1996-champs-troll-or-dumbass/914864 "2020-07-09T20:04:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yankees-1996-champs-troll-or-dumbass/914864/102 "2020-07-15T01:12:55Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Yanks, no one here has a problem with someone trying their best to write in English, but c’mon, admit that you have a problem with it, or that it’s not your first language, or that you’re messing with us. > We’ll understand. Well, you see, he has FOLK talk. ---
**Author:** ![DMC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dmc/32/18049_2.png) [@DMC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMC)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yankees-1996-champs-troll-or-dumbass/914864/103 "2020-07-15T01:22:50Z")
> [@Were you surprised by the backlash from Kaepernick, other athletes kneeling vs. the public](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-surprised-by-the-backlash-from-kaepernick-other-athletes-kneeling-vs-the-public/842146/265): > > **No, I did not care for kneeling** , I thought that it was a big distraction and it should have not been so discussed. > > **I approve of players kneeling**. I don’t think it is disrespectful to the flag, but a lot of people do, especially Boomer Esiason. I mean, the words, they all appear to be English, but I have no idea what he thinks about kneeling. I’m of the opinion that **Yankees** is simply a scab in the message board’s leg, even though I have no idea what that actually means[.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-surprised-by-the-backlash-from-kaepernick-other-athletes-kneeling-vs-the-public/842146/223) ---
**Author:** ![straight\_man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/straight_man/32/3027_2.png) [@straight\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/straight_man)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yankees-1996-champs-troll-or-dumbass/914864/104 "2020-07-15T02:31:50Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > > [@Yankees\_1996\_Champs](#): > > > > I have different thoughts. > > If you put air quotes around **different** it makes more sense And **thoughts**. (Sorry, couldn’t resist the straight line, let the pitting continue.) ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yankees-1996-champs-troll-or-dumbass/914864/105 "2020-07-15T02:33:36Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I read your posts and what comes immediately to mind is Boris Badenov in one of his bad disguises saying “I am typical American Boris Johnsonnov”. Might I suggest switching to a different free online translator? I might suggest the old school one that Noodles Romanoff and his evil organization N.A.S.T.Y. (National Association of Spies, Traitors and Yahoos) used. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yankees-1996-champs-troll-or-dumbass/914864/106 "2020-07-15T19:11:59Z")
The Turtle Moves! ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yankees-1996-champs-troll-or-dumbass/914864/107 "2020-07-15T22:37:21Z")
Ummm, okaaaay, sure you have the right thread? (or was that meant for the McConnell Constipation Prayer Group?) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yankees-1996-champs-troll-or-dumbass/914864/108 "2020-07-15T22:45:10Z")
You have not understanding. Let the spirit of Om guide you. Oh, and Russian trolls be dumb. ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2020, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yankees-1996-champs-troll-or-dumbass/914864/109 "2020-07-16T22:23:57Z")
Could it be that “folk talk” is a mistranslation? “Vernacular” or “dialect” is what those of us who are native English speakers would say (or those of us who don’t use a not so good translator). ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2020, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yankees-1996-champs-troll-or-dumbass/914864/110 "2020-07-16T22:31:12Z")
But he told us that he’s American and educated (in communications, mind you) at Rutgers University. So there shouldn’t be any issue of mistranslation. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2020, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yankees-1996-champs-troll-or-dumbass/914864/111 "2020-07-16T22:33:54Z")
Must…not…make…New…Jersey…joke… ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2020, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yankees-1996-champs-troll-or-dumbass/914864/112 "2020-07-16T22:46:41Z")
I think he’s trying to say that he speaks in colloquialisms. They are, however, “colloquialisms” that have never been heard before on this planet. > [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > But he told us that he’s American and educated (in communications, mind you) at Rutgers University. So there shouldn’t be any issue of mistranslation. A troll that lies? Who woulda thunk it? My _ **dog** _ can communicate better than this fucking troll, and his only formal training was to go outside to poop. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2020, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yankees-1996-champs-troll-or-dumbass/914864/113 "2020-07-16T23:08:41Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > They are, however, “colloquialisms” that have never been heard before on this planet. Overstated. I’m sure they’ve been heard in a different language. Perhaps a Slavic one? ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yankees-1996-champs-troll-or-dumbass/914864/114 "2020-07-17T00:48:49Z")
Here you go, this explains everything. He spent so much time researching stories from Depression-era NYC and elsewhere that he combines speech patterns from multiple locations in ways that make no sense to the rest of us. Hell, that makes as much sense as anything he’s said. > **[\[Folk Talk\]](https://www.loc.gov/resource/wpalh2.25040606/?st=gallery)** ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yankees-1996-champs-troll-or-dumbass/914864/115 "2020-07-17T01:55:04Z")
Phonetically: narodnyy razgovor Is a grammatically correct and common way to say “folk talk” in Russian. His English is not good enough to know that “folk talk” is an uncommon and entirely odd word combination. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yankees-1996-champs-troll-or-dumbass/914864/116 "2020-07-17T04:13:54Z")
Stewardess, _I_ speak folk talk! ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yankees-1996-champs-troll-or-dumbass/914864/117 "2020-07-17T04:45:29Z")
Oh, you speak folk talk? Well, let me tell you, Yankee, I rode on top of boxcars with Woody Guthrie, fixed Pete Seeger’s banjo, introduced Baez to Dylan, Emmylou to Gram, and two-thirds of the Kingston Trio. I slung a scuffed-up acoustic guitar over my shoulder and walked along the docks with John Prine, playing stevedore songs that we learned from Burl Ives… and you, sir, are no Burl Ives. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yankees-1996-champs-troll-or-dumbass/914864/118 "2020-07-17T11:24:32Z")
Ha!!! You forgot Odetta. ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2020, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yankees-1996-champs-troll-or-dumbass/914864/119 "2020-07-18T01:22:39Z")
Seem like “folk talk” should = “language of the people”. Far as I can tell, that ain’t it. At least no people outside of South Brooklyn. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2020, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yankees-1996-champs-troll-or-dumbass/914864/120 "2020-07-18T16:20:33Z")
A quotation from Martin Mull comes to mind: “Remember the Great Folk Music Scare of the 1960s? That shit almost caught on!” ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2020, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yankees-1996-champs-troll-or-dumbass/914864/121 "2020-07-18T23:32:58Z")
Ha! Passing that on to whichever old folkies that I played with are still alive… If only that shit _had_ caught on… life would be quieter. We were playing acoustic guitar/mandolin/bouzouki for a dozen beatnik-types in a basement espresso bar. And it was quiet enough to hear people snap their fingers or throw in a backup vocal or two. Try THAT at your Spice/Backstreet/K-pop/Dead Reunion Tour, ya mondo square daddy-o’s. Oh, and our music cost $3 (but free if you made a donation… did I mention all the really good weed?). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yankees-1996-champs-troll-or-dumbass/914864.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yankees-1996-champs-troll-or-dumbass/914864.md?page=7)