So I finally got around to adding my most recent efforts to the "Other Projects" section. It's a funny and serious look at life in South Jersey...and if you use the "wise guy" accent in your mind when you read this book I will be displeased. It is my personal goal to educate as much of the world as I have access to about the fact that North Jersey (near NYC) and South Jersey (near Philadelphia...or not, depending on how far south you go) have almost completely different accents, and that people from South Jersey do not like, after having put their flavor of Jersey accent to use when answering the question "So, where are you from?" being answered back with, "Oh, so you're from Joisey, eh?" People from South Jersey do not say "eh," they do not pronounce it "Joisey", and they do not like being compared to Newark.
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