Gullah-Connor?

I'm sure I'm one of the many readers who think John Connor's writing is the most entertaining ever to appear in a gun magazine. I wrote that, by the way, in very small, quiet letters so his head doesn't further swell up. For instance, his column (Guncrank Diaries, July/ Aug 2016) included this gem about his gunsmith checking out a rifle barrel: "He fired up his nuclear-powered FlugleTronic Laser-Peeper (whatever; that stuff is all Space-Cowboy techno-Gullah to me), 'scoped the bore and chamber and declared it immaculate."

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Now, I'm a crusty old back-country New Englander, but I recognize Gullah as a Creole language, in this case an odd sort-of English with traces of West African languages, spoken mainly in the Sea Islands off the coasts of Georgia and South Carolina. So is Connor a Jawja boy, or is he Editor Roy Huntington's fraternity brother in the smarter-than-he-looks club?

Sam Cohen

Bennington, NH

Sam, Connor Is a lotta things but a Gulla-speaker ain't one of 'em. Although, thinking on it some in retrospect, maybe that s what he s doing when 1 can't understand a word he Is saying.--RH