How To Say Anything To a Southerner

[seedcorn]

@thistlebloom You have to learn that the value of sarcasm is to NOT explain it away..... IF someone takes you serious, THEN and only THEN you explain.... Normal? Yeah, OK? Even the southerners get sarcasm, joking, harpooning, good natured jesting but you in NW think you have to explain it for fear of insulting someone? So now that it has been spelled out, do you really feel "normal"?

 

[thistlebloom]

Bless your little tiny heart again Seed. I thought you did take me serious, hence the expla nayshun. I'm sorry, it must have been your accent that confused me.

Yep. Still feelin' pretty normal.

 

[journey11]

LOL

 

[baymule]

As a Texan and a Southerner, I have the double whammy of accents. I write and sound reasonably intelligent, use correct grammar, spelling and punctuation. I open my mouth and all bets are off. Slow drawl, incorrect grammar, drop the "g" in words ending with ing. My speech is peppered with colloquialisms pertinent to the area, plus a lot of crap I make up on the spot.

Nyboy, your friend is on his way to being converted. His life will never be the same. You see, as a group, Southerners are friendly, caring and we overlook idiots from up north. LOL Bless his lil' ol' peapickin' heart.

If he is saying bless your heart, it is obvious that phrase has been uttered to him. Bless your heart can be used as an euphemism to politely replace more inflammatory words such as "You are dumber than a box of rocks." Or, "look up the dictionary defination of stupid and you'll find your name." Bless your heart is delivered with a smile that the unknowing doesn't understand the meaning of. Hahaha.... sure miss those smileys ....

Bless your heart can also spring from genuine caring for one's well being. Bless your heart can mean just that. Bless your heart can mean deepest sympathy.

Nyboy if your friend is being rude or obnoxious, followed by a smirking Bless your heart..... even a Southerner can run dry on patience and politeness. Somebody's gonna smack him up side th' head with a stupid stick.

Now is all that clear as mud? LOL

 

[seedcorn]

As a Texan and southerner? You think there is a difference?

 

[baymule]

As a Texan and southerner? You think there is a. difference? [/ QUOTE]

Yep. NC is Southern, but not Texan. Likewise for Georgia, SC, Louisiana and all the Southern states.

I love all the different accents across the country. We are all uniquely different, but we are all one.

Even the NORMAL @thistlebloom! (Ya know, the one without an accent ) smiley smiley smiley

 

[baymule]

I messed up that quote. &$$&*%$* PHONE!!!

 

[seedcorn]

I understand all southerners aren't from Texas. It's just you all share a common bond of displaying garden produce with pix while we are still under snow or melting it. Just teasing us all the time, while we do nothing so mean spirited...... God bless your little heart...

 

[thistlebloom]

Bay, as a Westerner, and a Northerner and a reformed So Cal temporary resident, I, like, TOTALLY appreciate your acknowledgement of my, like, normalcy. giggle.

 

[Beekissed]

Although I don't think I have too bad of a drawl, I have noticed I will pick up a bit of one if I am talking to someone else who really does. Bad grammar too. It's contagious! (My mom would skin me for sure.) I have some neighbors who moved up from Logan County (way south in WV) and it's like I've been possessed when I try to have a conversation with them. Heck, in my state, each county just about has its own dialect.

YES. Truth being spoken here...in an accent or without one. Each county here in WV does have it's own twang, with Boone Co. being the worst and Logan coming in a close second. I don't think I have an accent but folks up north will beg to differ on that.

I also get decidedly more twangy when around those with more twang. Don't know why that is. I have found that a southern accent on a woman gets more things accomplished when one is using the phone, so sometimes I'll slide on down into it for this or that purpose.

I'm not so far south that I've ever used the "bless yer heart" expression but can appreciate it's myriad uses and wish we had something like that here as it is so very necessary to have a way of saying someone is ...er...um...saying something less intelligent than normal...but doing it in a nice way. Up north they just tell you that you are a bleeping so and so and what of it???? Down here we don't like to come right out with it like that.