Re: AtD translation: Is, it’s all these Utahans in town hollerin

Joe Allonby joeallonby at gmail.com
Tue May 29 17:17:58 CDT 2018


Yeah. Sort of. It works really well if you read it aloud.

On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 10:03 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> P205.21-26   “You kind of see the story here. Is, it’s all these Utahans in
> town hollerin at Sage to get married, some Mormon boy she can’t hardly
> remember from back when she lived there, Cooper meantime wants her to ride
> off on that motor concern that never seems to get ‘em more’n a mile ‘fore
> he’s down into the works with her passin him pry bars and things, so she’s
> nobody to go looking to for advice of the heart . . .
>
> Is "Is" here short for "The thing is"?
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