Re: OT: in the USA - The Southern Part


(latimerp) wrote:
> 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.

By no means -- I would live there again in a minute, given the
opportunity (for the hubby to move, that is).

>
> > 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. "

That reminds me of a suitemate from college who said that she thought
it reasonable to stand in the middle of a busy highway and pray because
her time would come when God deemed it. I told her that God was
counting on her as a partner, even if a fallible one.

> 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.

I didn't really move back just so she would speak with the southern
"speech defect" ;-)

> > 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.

This former colleague of mine (a systems programmer when I was an app
programmer at UNC-CH) is still a friend and still says "might could."
While initially taken aback, I now find it charming enough. It was
much more disconcerting when people called me ma'am, as they are prone
to do in the South. Cheers! --dawn

.

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