Yankee Girl Survives First Year at Southern University

[MysticCat]

Cart.

[amIblue?]

Cart sometimes. Buggy usually.

[ComradesTrue]

Originally Posted by naraht

To give you an idea, I consider Dallas culturally southern, but not Ft. Worth.

Uh, no. You got it backwards.

Originally Posted by shirley1929

This is a mistake (my opinion)...Dallas is as culturally southern as Nebraska. Fort Worth is far more southern-acting than Dallas. Dallas the city =/= Dallas the TV show.

Having spent 20+ years in Fort Worth and almost 10 years in Dallas, I agree completely. And Dallas the city is rather bland.

Originally Posted by ASTalumna06

What say you, GCers? Cart? Carriage? Trolley? Buggy? etc.

Buggy. But now that I no longer live in Texas I do manage to work in "cart" every once in a while.

[clemsongirl]

Originally Posted by ASTalumna06

Do they also drive tha cah and bang a u-ey - most likely to avoid a gahkablahka and the troopahs - to hit up the packie, then head ova ta Stah Mahket to grab some Hoodsies and tonic? That's wicked pissah.



ETA: This pretty much sums it up.

http://m.youtube.com/index?&desktop_uri=%2F

Btw, 'Sweet Caroline' is the only song I'm willing to sing at karaoke

I won't lie, you have me stumped on "gahkablahka" and I speak fluent New England. I don't think that's ever happened before! I'm a little disappointed in myself, actually Something blocker?

Okay, now I can't stop myself from reading everything I type in a thick Boston accent (think Jerry Remy because I was just watching the Sawx).

SWEEEET CAROLIIIINE...BUH BUH BUUHHHH

[AGDee]

Originally Posted by Sciencewoman

cart

Also, I find it interesting that many people don't consider Oklahoma to be "southern." From my upper midwestern perspective, every Oklahoman I've met has been a lot closer to southern than they are to midwestern, at least in terms of speech patterns and dialect. I saw a tornado survivor being interviewed on the Today Show this morning, and he said, "fixin' to."

Agree on all counts.

[HQWest]

Originally Posted by clemsongirl

I won't lie, you have me stumped on "gahkablahka" and I speak fluent New England. I don't think that's ever happened before! I'm a little disappointed in myself, actually Something blocker?

Okay, now I can't stop myself from reading everything I type in a thick Boston accent (think Jerry Remy because I was just watching the Sawx).

This reminds me of the "Mark Wahlberg talks to Animals" sketch from SNL.
"Say hi to your mother for me!"

[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by clemsongirl

I won't lie, you have me stumped on "gahkablahka" and I speak fluent New England. I don't think that's ever happened before! I'm a little disappointed in myself, actually Something blocker?

Okay, now I can't stop myself from reading everything I type in a thick Boston accent (think Jerry Remy because I was just watching the Sawx).

SWEEEET CAROLIIIINE...BUH BUH BUUHHHH

The Rem Dawg!!!

And "gahkablahka" is a lot of traffic caused by people rubbernecking because of a car accident. Basically a "gawker-blocker"

Funny thing - the first time I said this at school in PA while driving with my friends, they thought I was calling someone a c*ck blocker ..

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by HQWest

This reminds me of the "Mark Wahlberg talks to Animals" sketch from SNL.
"Say hi to your mother for me!"

For the Win.

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by clemsongirl

I won't lie, you have me stumped on "gahkablahka" and I speak fluent New England. I don't think that's ever happened before! I'm a little disappointed in myself, actually Something blocker?

Okay, now I can't stop myself from reading everything I type in a thick Boston accent (think Jerry Remy because I was just watching the Sawx).

SWEEEET CAROLIIIINE...BUH BUH BUUHHHH

LOL...when you can google New Englandeze and get an answer, you know you can truly find anything on the Internet.

http://www.universalhub.com/glossary/gahkablahka.html

[angels&angles]

Originally Posted by Sciencewoman

Also, I find it interesting that many people don't consider Oklahoma to be "southern." From my upper midwestern perspective, every Oklahoman I've met has been a lot closer to southern than they are to midwestern, at least in terms of speech patterns and dialect. I saw a tornado survivor being interviewed on the Today Show this morning, and he said, "fixin' to."

Midwesterners swear we're Southern, Southerners swear we're the Midwest. Geography books say we're Southwestern which is the most patently false of them all, and they won't take us either.

Oklahoma: America's red-headed step-child.

(I identify as Midwestern but other Okies disagree. With a deep-Southern father, and a northeastern mother, growing up in OK, I was always going to be a muddle.)

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by angels&angles

Midwesterners swear we're Southern, Southerners swear we're the Midwest. Geography books say we're Southwestern which is the most patently false of them all, and they won't take us either.

Oklahoma: America's red-headed step-child.

(I identify as Midwestern but other Okies disagree. With a deep-Southern father, and a northeastern mother, growing up in OK, I was always going to be a muddle.)

Oklahoma seems pretty southern, but honestly, Southerners are notorious for thinking that no other state is Southern but theirs (even if they are farther north than several others.) Growing up in Louisiana, we always thought that Louisiana was the epitome of Southerness...it's not. It's a special brand of Southern as are every Southern state. OK is just a really western "Southern" state.

[Smile_Awhile]

Originally Posted by angels&angles

Midwesterners swear we're Southern, Southerners swear we're the Midwest. Geography books say we're Southwestern which is the most patently false of them all, and they won't take us either.

Oklahoma: America's red-headed step-child.

(I identify as Midwestern but other Okies disagree. With a deep-Southern father, and a northeastern mother, growing up in OK, I was always going to be a muddle.)

Truth. On all counts.

[AnchorAlum]

I've lived in several Southern states from Kentucky to north Florida (newsflash: south Florida ain't the South) and if you have a practiced ear, you can tell which Southern state someone is from by their accent.
I also lived in Texas for almost twenty years and can tell someone from east Texas versus west Texas.

[clemsongirl]

Originally Posted by AnchorAlum

I've lived in several Southern states from Kentucky to north Florida (newsflash: south Florida ain't the South) and if you have a practiced ear, you can tell which Southern state someone is from by their accent.
I also lived in Texas for almost twenty years and can tell someone from east Texas versus west Texas.

It's definitely possible to tell them apart. My boyfriend's suitemate from Tennessee sounded completely different from all the South Carolinians, North Carolinians, and Georgians floating around on campus. For a while I only knew him as the nice boy with the funny accent because it just stood out so much to my ears.

When I was at freshman orientation last year I used the word "wicked" in a conversation and the guy I was talking with stopped and said, "Wait, do people from New England really say that? I though that was just something Jimmy Fallon did in SNL skits!" I could not stop cracking up about it! I was the first real-life New Englander he had met, apparently.

[ZTA72]

Originally Posted by clemsongirl

It's definitely possible to tell them apart. My boyfriend's suitemate from Tennessee sounded completely different from all the South Carolinians, North Carolinians, and Georgians floating around on campus. For a while I only knew him as the nice boy with the funny accent because it just stood out so much to my ears.

When I was at freshman orientation last year I used the word "wicked" in a conversation and the guy I was talking with stopped and said, "Wait, do people from New England really say that? I though that was just something Jimmy Fallon did in SNL skits!" I could not stop cracking up about it! I was the first real-life New Englander he had met, apparently.

YES! We lived in Texas for quite a while and the regional accents are very distinct. As well as the Middle, East and West Tennessee accents. You are right, sometimes we do stand out!