Being from Upstate NY, they weren't too happy about the question.
And there was a Bubba in our office. ROFLMAO
The Secretary asked me if I wanted to go with her to see her brother who was in jail in Roanoke. Yeh...right
This was a high class engineering office.
I said that the blacks down there were wonderful to me. The secretary said "They know their place". Unbelievable.
Being from Upstate NY, they weren't too happy about the question."
No, we grow up with it and never stop using it. It's so much more pleasing to the ear than a New Yawk honk.
A few years back, I was doing some shopping, and the cashier was a Yankee. Misguided as many of them are, she told me that my "accent" wasn't really that pronounced compared to some she'd heard---see, she thought she was giving me a compliment.
I assumed an expression of concern and responded, "Thank you for telling me. I'll definitely have to work on that."
Poor thing...she looked completely confused.
Well, you know us, just a bunch o racist hicks.
I tell you what sister, there are a whole lot more dumb Northerners than dumb Southerners. And there is a huge difference between spoken language and written language. No one says “hi” anymore, it’s “hey.” Ever heard of a colloquialism? When I was in the Army, I can clearly recall saying about my staff and I that “We were happy to have the opportunity to contribute to y’all’s mission,” lol —it just came out. Call me a rube, I really don’t give one lil hoot what any Northerner thinks. (Full disclosure—I lived in St. Paul until age 8)
My friend who is an elementary school teacher from Alabama and I went up to Green Bay for a Hank Junior concert-—the place was so beat down and haggard, all the cars were old and tired, there were no boats in the slips—we couldn’t wait to get back to the South where at least there is some hint of life. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
I can understand that the traditional Southern drawl and certain words sound strange to people who grew up in other states. What I find difficult to grasp is the tendency of Damned Yankees, you know, the ones who come and stay, to have the audacity to move to the South and then comment on how their neighbors, “talk so funny”. That is just one of their annoying ways. I have been in many states and have never known a Southerner to go to New York and comment to the natives on how strange the people sound to him. Why is it that so many Northerners cannot pronounce the word “saw” anyway? That is just one example I could mention. I have spoken to people in every state on the telephone and some of those who are the most difficult to understand are in New York City. Many of them sound as if they are trying to decide just how to commit suicide, people in West Virginia or even in prison sound happier. One in about five hundred will say that he cannot understand me and that is usually someone who makes Marlon Brando as the godfather sound like Ronald Reagan by comparison so it is hard to say whether he said, “I can’t understand you” or Mary had a little lamb. On the other hand I have had many comments such as, “Where are you calling from, you have such a great voice and I love your accent.” Personally I think everyone is beginning to sound the same and I hate it, I like regional accents.
You do know that in Virginia as in most of the Southern States each region has its own accent, don’t you? The Tidewater accent is different from the Western region and the mid-state has another distinct sound.
A Virginia accent is the most gentile, I think, of all the Southern sounds.
Then there is the Outer Banks of North Carolina whose speech is almost unitelligible to me because it is Old English, very close to what was spoken during the discovery period.
I visit NYC a lot and find the accents there grate on my last nerve.
It is, no doubt, a good thing that you effected an escape to your native soil. Other people’s prejudices are always far less tolerable than one’s own.
I have worked in high tech engineering for 35 years...I have a masters degree in electrical engineering. I am from the mountains of East Tennessee and I have a southern mountain accent. I have NEVER had a problem working with engineers fom all over the globe. They have never had a problem with speech.
Your comments are so very condescending and arrogant that I wonder if you have a hidden inferiority complex.
Why would you make fun of the nickname “Bubba”???
You also sound to me to be racist. Why would you single out blacks by saying “they” have been wonderful to you???
Maybe you need to realize that not everyone talks or thinks like you...THANK GOD......
Bless your heart.
I'm reminded of an old Southern observation: Yankees are like hemorrhoids. We they come down but then go back up, they're tolerable. But when they come down and stay, they're a pain in the ass.
Present company excepted, I'm sure.
BTW, I am Ani-Yun-Wiya (if you don’t know, look it up). I am a proud member of the Bird Clan. My ancestors are on the Baker Rolls.
If you are not a member of the Lemhi Shoshone tribe, I take exception to you using the name of a member of that tribe.
Are you like Elizabeth Warren, claiming to be something that you are not?
Did they know you were a jackass right away or did it take a while for them...being slow and all to figure it out
Well...bless your heart!