George Carlin is one of my favorite comedians. I share his love for words and how we Americans murder our language. Having just spent sometime in Arkansas, I am in culture shock! I am catching on to the lingo thou. One of my favorite new words is "fixin" as in "I AM FIXIN TO DO THAT". While this phrase sounds like a commitment to take some future action, in realty it is just an acknowledgment that the thought crossed your mind. The phrase is very useful at ending discussion about your failure to take action. I have learn in conversational "Southern" the phrase "I HEARD THAT" is used a lot. Not sure what it means. It may not mean anything, as it seems to be used in the place of “Oh" or tacit agreement. In other usage, I suspect that "I HEARD THAT" evolved from CB radio term "RODGER THAT". However when used in regular speech, no one knew who the hell Rodger was! Locals say "YOU MIGHT COULD DO THAT”. This seems to mean that "MIGHT COULD DO " is more tentative than "COULD DO". The same can be said of “MIGHT OUGHT AH”. This usage seems to be a remnant of old English. For example where the more negatives one used in a row the more emphatic the NO.