Posted on 07/09/2010 6:31:05 PM PDT by navysealdad
I am also 9%, but I’m one of the smart ones.
I live in the south because of the freedom, but go up north just to eat knishes and pizza, drive across the beautiful bridges and stare at the skyline in nighttime Manhattan, and have Italian Fish night with family. :)
When was your sister there and where was she stationed?
When was your sister there and where was she stationed? I was also teased for my southern accent and then teased for my lack of one when I got out. When I went in my accent was so bad that I pronounced “lions” the same way you pronounce “lines”.
P.S. When I was 8 I had never been around Yankees and some people moved to my hometown from Chicago. I literally could not understand half of what they said for the first few weeks. It is an acquired art. In college because so many of my engineering professors were Indian (dot, not feather), I learned to listen with an Indian accent.
She would have been there in the mid to late 80's. It's been so long I can't remember the specific years or base but, I'll ask her and let ya know. She spent 3 years in Iceland and the pics she has are amazing!
I pronounced “lions” the same way you pronounce “lines”.
Yep, that's still how I sound. I'm almost embarrased to say this....I pronounce fire the way other people say far! I never noticed it until it was, rather impolitely, pointed out to me. We're gonna light a far! LOL!!!!
“and fight with y’all.”
Hell with that y’all, you’re 90% there.
The test needed an eether or iither for either
Yep...and I live in Southren Tai-wan also...heh heh heh.
Yep, again. Have Indian friends and have learned to listen w/an Indian accent:)
Here's ya an excerpt from a paper our daughter wrote for a Comp class, several years back, on Southern accents and dialects. I wanted to strangle her when she showed it to me! But, she got an A:)
Many are the times which I have been gently chided or even heckled for my use of Southern English. Coming from some who view my accent and dialect as inferior, I have been the butt of their jokes or mocked due to my Southern English. I remember heading out for Sunday school in my youth or to important meetings as an adult, such as a job interview, and my mother telling me, “Watch your grammar.” By this she meant I was to speak absent the Southern dialect or accent. I don’t think that is a feat she could accomplish herself. You see, my mother speaks her own version of Southern English around those closest to her. It is common to hear her make a comment such as, “Now don’t ya go a bein’ mad at yer Pa. He’ll be gone one of these days and your heart will be breaked.” She is actually butchering the English language on purpose. She says, “Well, if the rest of the country makes fun of the way we talk, I can make fun of it even better.” This is part of her own brand of humor and also part of what those closest to her find so endearing and entertaining. She can tell a story or share an anecdote, in her uniqe version of Southern English, where all in attendence listen with rapt attention and feel jovial enough to join the display of feigned linguistic ignorance with glee.
Same as you. “46% Dixie. Barely in Yankeedom.”
California boy.
49% Dixie and hardly any Yankee. Strange since I’m from the Midwest.
PING 4 HOME
100% Dixie. I’m fixing to celebrate!
But I shared an apartment with a yankee for a year in the Navy LOL.
And I've been out west for more'n thirty years.
52% Dixie. I’m surprised there’s that much left, given that both of my parents moved from the Deep South when they were kids in WWII.
A lot of Dixie stuck to them, though, so I grew up with a whole lotta Dixieness in my family.
33% dixie...Maybe one of my ancstors marched with Sherman.
“I did not know that out of the area people wait IN line, not ON line.”
I think that “on line” is almost unique to the NYC metro area.
We also say “off of”, as in I broke the handle off of the cup.
Twenty years of living in the Hoosier and I haven't lost a thing.
What about the famous “double modal”...
might could - “I might could go to the store today”
might should - “He might should apologize to her for that”
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As an aside, I am reading a historical fiction written in England in the 1800s. In it, the author has used “I reckon” many times. I thought that was pretty neat. I’d read before that southern English has some traces of older British English - especially in areas like Charleston and Savannah
9% here too... Born and bred MA, but lived in ME since ‘97. They know me for a Masshole when I ask for tonic or a frappe.
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