LOL! Well, at least you don't hafta hear it in person. Southern english is a little different to say the least, but I'm sure you get your share of it living in South Carolina. I LOVE the accents in that part of the country. Most everybody around here just sound like rednecks. Someone on the thread here a while back was talking about hating the way Tom Hanks did accents in some of his movies and I can relate. I've NEVER heard an authentic sounding Southern accent in a movie. It just chaps my butt. They even took an authentic one (Lucas Black, who is from just down the road and sounds as country as they come) and made him do a fake one in the movie he was in about Helen Keller. Now THAT just took the cake.
LOL - When I first moved out here a lady came into the library and I asked her where in Alabama she came from. Shocked the daylights out of her, but I used to be able to recognize Alabama from all the other southern states.
And you don't sound like rednecks at all.
Do you know what really drove me crazy? The actors trying to duplicate Boston accents in Jaws. Oh and Good Will Hunting was another bad one.
I didn't think I had much of an accent but I took the train to Jacksonville awhile back and a bunch of northerners vacationing and drove me nuts about it.
sorry so long in replying.........we live in Georgia! It's taken me 4 years to begin to understand the accent! If it gets too much though, i can always swear in the Scottish dialect really sweetly and nobody has a clue what I am saying! LOL