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The South is FULL of colloquialisms or expressions, if you prefer, that if you are not from here WILL get lost in translation as I have noticed from reading several of the posts. We say things that some people may find odd and we pronounce some words differently than to rest of the world.
If you something translated, just ask. As it is my native language, I speak it quite well, lol.
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Re: Need help translating Southernese?
Oct 22, 2008 3:23 PM
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Thanks for the info.
I've told my co-workers that they "were born in a barn" several times since they are always leaving the lab doors open.
There's always the difference between "country ham" and the canned ham found outside the South. Man, there is no comparison! When I lived out West, I'd ask my grandmother to send me one about once a year.
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Re: Need help translating Southernese?
Oct 22, 2008 3:19 PM
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Southernese I had to get used to when I moved to Texas, for example:
"I'm fixin' to go to the Super Save A Lot";
"I need to reserve the Honeymoon Suit at your hotel";
(that is not a typo)
"I might could get me some of that okra when I'm at the Super Save A Lot";
"I had no ideal that you were a vampire"
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Re: Need help translating Southernese?
Oct 22, 2008 3:14 PM
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Mdog,
ROFL!!!! Hon, that was just as adorable as a newborn kitten.
I still say "yessum" when someone calls my name. Guess you can take the lady out of the south but you can't take the south out of the lady.
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Re: Need help translating Southernese?
Oct 22, 2008 2:51 PM
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ya prit neer got me wid dat one . yall be good now
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Re: Need help translating Southernese?
Oct 22, 2008 2:24 PM
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My asst just reminded me of one. A girl walked out the front door of my office and left it stand wide open and Lou looked at me and said, " Damn, was she raised in a barn?"
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Edited by Aradaea at 10/22/2008 12:15 PM PDT
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Re: Need help translating Southernese?
Oct 22, 2008 2:21 PM
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Wildcelt,
They are both made from sorghum cane. Lord knows I had to hoe, cut, strip, crush, and cook enough of it, and still do in the summer. Most of it is done by hand. I got a couple of scars from it over the years. Had the crusher catch my coat my senior year in high school and give me a scar just above my left eye, right along my eyebrow. It broke my nose, cheek, right arm and breastbone in less than 5 seconds. I looked like a racoon for 3 weeks.
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Re: Need help translating Southernese?
Oct 22, 2008 1:45 PM
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> LOL, southern sayings. This one always makes me
> laugh.
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> It's hotter than 2 rats f*cking in a wool sock.
OMG.......... ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!
I so need to remember that one and start using it up here in the north country!! (I'm from northern NY)
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Re: Need help translating Southernese?
Oct 22, 2008 1:23 PM
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I think sorghum is specifically from corn and molasses is from sugar cane. And I've always preferred sorghum, but it tends to make my teeth hurt.
A phrase my Southern grandmother used to say was "I'll be there in two shakes of a dead billy goat's tail". That used to break me up so much, I could barely stand for laughing so hard.
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Re: Need help translating Southernese?
Oct 22, 2008 1:00 PM
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Ok...came up with a couple more things we tend to say here.
We don't have "chairs"...we have "cheers".
My dad always calls "biscuts"...."catheads".
We tend to say "sorgrum", depending on the area, instead of "molasses" or " 'lasses"
sire instead of sour
damneer (one word) damn near
damful damn fool
I can hear my grandparents now, "Now, Daddy, ye don't need be up in dem woods chasin' dem der cows. Let da boys does it, ye needta rest." "Mama, we be back by lunch. 'Mahwn boys." Lawnee, he gawnna break his damful neck."
My grandmother had 2 college degrees, from what is now MTSU, before she had the right to vote and still mangaged to keep that thick "suthan acent" she had always had, right until she passed away in Feb of this year.
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Re: Need help translating Southernese?
Oct 21, 2008 10:50 PM
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another one I catch myself saying is for a while
"I'm fix'n to go to the sto' "
"I'm about to go to the store"
but I'm not southern so I don't know where it comes from
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Re: Need help translating Southernese?
Oct 21, 2008 10:24 PM
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Tara said she was 'unboyfriendable.' Does this qualify as Southernese? by the way...i luv Tara...but am i the only one thinking the storyline involving her mom is just a buzz-killer?
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Re: Need help translating Southernese?
Oct 21, 2008 10:22 PM
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How about the word "persnickety". That was a fave of my grandmother's. It means "too particular".
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Re: Need help translating Southernese?
Oct 21, 2008 9:11 PM
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Have ya ever noticed just how many words we shorten?
possem
coon...damn, that reminds me, need to go feed 'em 'fore the coyot's and the cougars come for the night ( I'm serious, my hubby has some strange pets)
I use "ye" a lot, as in, thankye.
Oh!!!...I'm leaving the office after my day from hell (for details, check the lunitic thread from this am) and my asst answers the phone with "Ford and Assoc, how may I hep ye? No, she ain't in at the moment, take a messeege..." Lucky for me, my clients probably didn't notice.
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Re: Need help translating Southernese?
Oct 21, 2008 5:23 PM
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Another good one "as busy as a horse's tail in August"
(Because of the flies) : > )
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Oct 21, 2008 4:55 PM
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LOL, southern sayings. This one always makes me laugh.
It's hotter than 2 rats f*cking in a wool sock.
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