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Southernisms - 11/3/2010 1:49:32 PM   
Daddysredhead


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Status: offline 		Southern women know their summer weather report:
Humidity
Humidity
Humidity

Southern women know their vacation spots:
The beach
The rivuh
The crick

Southern women know everybody's first name:
Honey
Darlin'
Shugah

Southern women know the movies that speak to their hearts:
Fried Green Tomatoes
Driving Miss Daisy
Steel Magnolias
Gone With The Wind

Southern women know their religions:
Baptist
Methodist
Football

Southern women know their cities dripping with Southern charm:
Chawl'stn
S'vanah
Foat Wuth
N'awlins
Addlanna

Southern women know their elegant gentlemen:
Men in uniform
Men in tuxedos
Rhett Butler

Southern girls know their prime real estate:
The Mall
The Country Club
The Beauty Salon

Southern girls know the 3 deadly sins:
Having bad hair and nails
Having bad manners
Cooking bad food

More Suthen-ism's:
Only a Southerner knows the difference between a hissie fit and a conniption fit, and that you don't "HAVE" them,
you "PITCH" them.
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Only a Southerner knows how many fish, collard greens, turnip greens, peas, beans, etc., make up "a mess."
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Only a Southerner can show or point out to you the general direction of "yonder."
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Only a Southerner knows exactly how long "directly" is, as in:
"Going to town, be back directly."
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Even Southern babies know that "Gimme some sugar" is not a request for the white, granular, sweet substance that sits in a pretty little bowl in the middle of the table.
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All Southerners know exactly when "by and by" is. They might not use the term, but they know the concept well.
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Only a Southerner knows instinctively that the best gesture of solace for a neighbor who's got trouble is a plate of hot fried chicken and a big bowl of cold potato salad.
If the neighbor's trouble is a real crisis, they also know to add a large banana puddin'!
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Only Southerners grow up knowing the difference between "right near" and
"a right far piece." They also know that "just down the road" can be 1 mile or 20.
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Only a Southerner both knows and understands the difference between a redneck, a good ol' boy, and Po white trash.
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No true Southerner would ever assume that the car with the flashing turn signal is actually going to make a turn.
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A Southerner knows that "fixin" can be used as a noun, a verb, or an adverb.
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Only Southerners make friends while standing in lines, ... and when we're "in line,"... we talk to everybody!
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Put 100 Southerners in a room and half of them will discover they're related, even if only by marriage.
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In the South, y'all is singular, all y'all is plural.
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Southerners know grits come from corn and how to eat them.
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Every Southerner knows tomatoes with eggs, bacon, grits, and coffee are perfectly wonderful; that red eye gravy is also a breakfast food; and that fried green tomatoes are not a breakfast food.
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When you hear someone say, "Well, I caught myself lookin'," you know you are in the presence of a genuine
Southerner!
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Only true Southerners say "sweet tea" and "sweet milk." Sweet tea indicates the need for sugar and lots of it -- we do not like our tea unsweetened. "Sweet milk" means you don't want buttermilk.
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And a true Southerner knows you don't scream obscenities at little old ladies who drive 30 MPH on the freeway.
You just say, "Bless her heart"... and go your own way.
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To those of you who are still a little embarrassed by your Southerness: Take two tent revivals and a dose of sausage gravy and call me in the morning. Bless your heart!
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And to those of you who are still having a hard time understanding all this Southern stuff...bless your hearts, I hear they are fixin' to have classes on Southerness as a second language!
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If you're a Northern transplant, bless your little heart,
fake it. We know you got here as fast as you could.


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RE: Southernisms - 11/3/2010 2:45:46 PM   
LadyPact


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Status: offline 		Nice one, DRH.  I really enjoyed it. 

(That part about the grits, is spot on, and everybody who tells you the "right" way to eat grits is absolutely positive that it's the "proper" way.)


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RE: Southernisms - 11/3/2010 2:53:54 PM   
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Status: offline 		I love you sweetie... I make just go home and make grits for dinner! Though what I really want is Cajun...

I'm tempted to offer service of a to-be-determined nature to anyone who moves to Greensboro and opens a Cajun restaurant worth eating at. Well... as worth eating as out of the bayou but it'd be better than what we have now!


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RE: Southernisms - 11/3/2010 6:21:34 PM   
Hillwilliam


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Status: offline 		In the South, (note the capitalization) you can say anything you want about someone as long as you add "bless their heart"

example That poor baby is ugly as a monkey," bless his heart"

She's such a slut "Bless her heart"

That poor boy is dumb as a box of hair "Bless his heart"

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RE: Southernisms - 11/3/2010 6:22:53 PM   
Hillwilliam


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When you hear someone say "I love him to death but......"

You are about to hear something horrible.

I love him to death but what he done to that old lady just aint right.

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RE: Southernisms - 11/3/2010 6:50:02 PM   
xXsoumisXx


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Status: offline 		Some things i have learned:

Soda, or pop, as i call it, is a "cold drink"

I do not turn 46, but i make 46, on my birthday.

Some people "make" groceries.

Anyone and everyone calls me "baby"

Children get bobo's

Pacifiers are called "noonies". This is not similar to "nooner". ;)

Hoses are called "hose pipes"

Cooking oil is sold by the gallon, even in small little neighborhood grocery stores. Especially peanut oil.

No salad bars..!

I'm sure i will think of lots more, as soon as i post this..







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RE: Southernisms - 11/3/2010 7:30:24 PM   
Daddysredhead


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quote:

ORIGINAL: Hillwilliam

In the South, (note the capitalization) you can say anything you want about someone as long as you add "bless their heart"


Hilly,

please notice the last line of my sig...  It's been there for about 2 years.  It used to say "Are you really that stupid?  Bless your heart."  I shortened it after about a year to add more things to my siggy. 

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RE: Southernisms - 11/3/2010 7:32:54 PM   
Daddysredhead


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Status: offline 		Southerners call it a skillet, other folks call it a frying pan.

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Are you really that stupid? ~ Bless your heart

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RE: Southernisms - 11/3/2010 11:08:05 PM   
tazzygirl


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Status: offline 		The one Southern expression i could, and never will, embrace is the use of term .. Meemaw.

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RE: Southernisms - 11/3/2010 11:15:00 PM   
GreedyTop


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I spent enough years driving trucks that many of the Southernisms are now second nature to me. Of course, talking to such luscious Southern Ladies as yourself help keep me up to speed ;)

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RE: Southernisms - 11/4/2010 12:02:44 AM   
RedBottomGirl26


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Status: offline 		Daddysredhead, hillarious post, it cracked me up. And tazzygirl, I do agree w/ you on that one, the phrase Meemaw to describe a grandmotherly type figure, or perhaps your own grandmother, just seemed weird and rude to me that others would not show a more proper respect, as if the term grandmother/father were hard to grasp, maybe when they were five meemaw was easier to say, I don't rightly know LOL (like perhaps a little childish, though perhaps the ppl who use phrases, think they are trying to endear their relatives, or show respect by calling them that). I also didn't understand the use of the term pawpaw for grandfather...I mean, haha, I just don't get it and I live in Tn (mostly only ppl in east tn, or descending from that part, will use those phrases, and usually mostly in really rural areas, I don't hear it much in Middle or West. I imagine KY, sees alot of this, but probably a few other areas as well). Anyway, some of this stuff really had me laughing out loud. I think I needed a good laugh today.

When u were mentioning southern as a second language, I think it really needs to be. I was once in this one class, and this one linguist teacher, who was not a native southerner, but she managed to understand some of our phrasing, but only after working here for several years (of course she never mentioned how long/short a time it took her, she was originally from another country, moved to some Northern US area (probably Boston, b/c she had that Bostonian or Jersey kind of accent, but for me it was a little hard to tell the difference, though usually Jersey is very distinctive, but alot of northern accents share similar traits, but the same could be said about southern dialect too). Anyway, it is ironic how some dialects are so thick that you can't really make them out, even if they are in English (some aren't)...but take Cocknie? (hope I spelled that right, forgive the butchery), that mix of Scottish, and whatever is in there, or Gaelic, man...talk about hard, but it does have a kind of poetic flow to it. I think the Cajun dialect is one such example, though that's the mix of the French influence in there.

But anyway, some of those points just reminded me of lingual differences in general, but it did make me laugh, sometimes language can be both frustrating and amusing.

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RE: Southernisms - 11/4/2010 12:08:43 AM   
GreedyTop


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Status: offline 		sorry.. dont mean to be snarky here.. but what part of linguistics does TXTSPK fall under?  Sorry again, but thats about all I got out of your post, RBG..

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RE: Southernisms - 11/4/2010 12:34:08 AM   
RedBottomGirl26


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Status: offline 		Actually, there are sections devoted to internet/computer programming language and short-hand for communicating purposes (tends to get rather selective/specific in professions such as IT, doctors and lawyers), but...of course make of that what you want really. I was just trying to see the humor in things for a change. But, I did want to point out there are reasons dialects get compacted like they do, or compartmentalized, mostly due to language always trying to simplify, by dropping letters or vowels (as northern dialects do, esp dropping of the "r"), we use dipthongs, and cram our vowels together, to elongate them, don't know why we do, but we do in the south. And other than usin LOL, what other text speak did I use? I do some short hand writing (usually I turn because into b/c since I got use to having to shorten that word after writing it so much for notes). Sorry, if I did not communicate as clearly as I should. And other than using u for you...I am well aware this is not proper, but why do we do it, for simplicity.

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RE: Southernisms - 11/4/2010 4:21:30 AM   
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RE: Southernisms - 11/4/2010 7:34:23 AM   
tazzygirl


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RE: Southernisms - 11/4/2010 7:39:21 AM   
tazzygirl


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quote:

ORIGINAL: RedBottomGirl26

Actually, there are sections devoted to internet/computer programming language and short-hand for communicating purposes (tends to get rather selective/specific in professions such as IT, doctors and lawyers), but...of course make of that what you want really. I was just trying to see the humor in things for a change. But, I did want to point out there are reasons dialects get compacted like they do, or compartmentalized, mostly due to language always trying to simplify, by dropping letters or vowels (as northern dialects do, esp dropping of the "r"), we use dipthongs, and cram our vowels together, to elongate them, don't know why we do, but we do in the south. And other than usin LOL, what other text speak did I use? I do some short hand writing (usually I turn because into b/c since I got use to having to shorten that word after writing it so much for notes). Sorry, if I did not communicate as clearly as I should. And other than using u for you...I am well aware this is not proper, but why do we do it, for simplicity.



I dont see that as simplicity. Time saving when writing notes to yourself... yes. Lazy when communicating to others... yes.

I wont even respond to a text message with "text speech". My son tried that once... after being informed he was given a better education than that, and that i, as his mother, deserve far better respect and efforts... not to mention his phone is T9 capable and will help... i had better not recieve another text from him with "u" and "idk".

cus, w/o the bility to municate, we just a hole bunch of fools.

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RE: Southernisms - 11/4/2010 8:12:48 AM   
yenje


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Status: offline 		Man..I 100% agree to that.  I hate getting IDK (I dont know) and similar stuff in a message.  Or.. "How RU?".  I get that from someone I'm dating, and I immediately think, "Wow..is this person stupid or just lazy?"  I can appreciate that I'm probably in the minority when it comes to thinking like that or maybe I'm just 'old school'. 

Of course, I have older family members that hate texting in general, so maybe I'm just wrong all around :)



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RE: Southernisms - 11/4/2010 10:40:32 AM   
Daddysredhead


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Status: offline 		I took linguistics in college and was always interested in the ways various parts of the country used different words to explain a concept or to describe an object. My initial post here was from an email that I received long ago from a friend who was not from down South, but understood my appreciation for "Southernisms."

I also speak French and Sinhalese so language is just fun for me. But, geography can be a wonderful thing. I embrace the things that are common knowledge about certain places or people. It's sort of like the movie, "Liar, Liar" when Jim Carrey gets blamed for using stereotypes and he retorts, "I know I do it, but it just saves time."

Personally, this is one of my favorite Southernisms, and I have shared it before, but it's good enough to have a curtain call.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3KQgulBzh0

ps ~ I'm glad you had a good laugh, redbottom

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RE: Southernisms - 11/4/2010 11:16:34 AM   
Hillwilliam


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quote:

ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

The one Southern expression i could, and never will, embrace is the use of term .. Meemaw.




Actually, meemaw and it's counterpart peepaw are sometimes used as anything BUT a term of endearment.

Example: "C'mon meemaw, the light is GREEN"

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RE: Southernisms - 11/4/2010 2:19:50 PM   
SorceressJ


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Status: offline 		My good-lookin' cuss of a Husband is PawPaw to our new grandThing. This is also the same man who, when working for the State Park system a few years back, told a new recruit from Noo Yawk that grits came off'n those tall, pretty white flowers that grow all over the place along the sides of roads and such (which are actually Queen Anne's Lace, and also the above-ground growth of these odd little tubars that look remarkably like wild carrots). She believed him, and went out picking a whole bunch of them, got em home and had got so far as to ask someone how to then prepare them, before she caught on to the pwn..
(she was one mad Yankee, and didn't stay long; couldn't handle Southernisms, bless her heart..)

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