Re: OT: in the USA - The Southern Part

dawn wrote:

> (latimerp) wrote:
>
>>http://www.thebigshow.com/picsnsuch/archive/southernstuff/yankeetips.html
>
>
> I'm a yankee who spent two years in Durham, North Carolina.  I can add
> three from my own experience.
>

I sounds like you had an unpleasant experience.

> 1) Call ahead for fast food if you want to be able to drive through
I've never done that.
> 2) Realize that the Civil War wasn't so long ago (go see Gone with the
> Wind with Southerners -- it is like the Rocky Horror Picture Show in
> that the crowd boos at General Sherman, for example)

Gen. Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson -
"my religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself about that, but to be always ready, no matter when it may overtake me. That is the way all men should live, and then all would be equally brave. "

Gen. Robert Edward Lee -
"I tremble for our country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God." - Lee in a letter to his wife in 1863

Hey it's the South ;)

> 3) It is time to move back North when your kids start to talk, yelling
> from the next room "Ah need hay-elp" and turning many single syllable
> words into multi.

I'm working on mine. My goals may be different.

> 4) Even well-educated colleagues say  "Might could" as in "I maat kud
> hep you with that, Don"
>

It denigrates the professionalism of our colleagues. But
business and social conversation should be different.

> cheers!  --dawn
>

<:=), Patrick
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