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How to Talk Minnesotan : A Visitor's Guide
ISBN: 9780140092844 | 0140092846
Edition: ReprintFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Pub. Date: 8/1/1987
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Based in part on material written for "A Prairie Home Companion", How to Talk Minnesotan will help visitors to Minnesota keep from sticking out like sore thumbs when they don't know the difference between "not too bad a deal" and "a heckuva deal". Illustrated with line drawings.
| Foreword by Author's Mechanic | p. vii |
| Preface | p. ix |
| Getting Started in Minnesotan | p. 1 |
| The Power of the Negative | p. 6 |
| Eating In in Minnesota | p. 13 |
| Basic Conversations | p. 23 |
| Dining Out in Minnesota | p. 34 |
| What to Say When You've Arrived | p. 42 |
| Talking Cars in Minnesota | p. 52 |
| Lutefisk | p. 59 |
| ... MORE | p. 64 |
| Oh, For and Heckuva Deal | p. 70 |
| Your Winter Vacation in Minnesota | p. 79 |
| Books, Grants, and Fuel Oil | p. 87 |
| Minnesota Doctors and Hospitals | p. 95 |
| Talking Money and Road Repairs in Minnesota | p. 104 |
| Romance and Marriage in Minnesota | p. 114 |
| Living Off the Land, Snowbirds, and So ... Then | p. 124 |
| Wyoming, Golf, and the Law, Minnesota-Style | p. 134 |
| Non Sequiturs, Rebuttals, and Gifts | p. 144 |
| Minnesota Psychiatry | p. 154 |
| Cassettes, Mysteries, and Customs | p. 160 |
| Though, Groves, Seniors, and Poker Parties | p. 169 |
| Minnesota Body Language | p. 180 |
| Directions, Church, Lake, and Cabin | p. 188 |
| I Don't Know and Minnesota Firsts | p. 196 |
| Lists, the Phone, For Sure, Saying Too Much | p. 204 |
| The Minnesota Long Good-bye | p. 215 |
| Conclusion: Whatever | p. 221 |
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