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luci
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« Reply #30 on: Feb 5^th, 2005, 2:22pm »

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Does anyone know what this saying means;

"that was before I got out of my hobbles"

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« Reply #31 on: Feb 5^th, 2005, 2:35pm »

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Yep, we Southerners listen slow. Grin

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« Reply #32 on: Feb 5^th, 2005, 3:40pm »

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This is interesting. I remember losing my southern accent while I was studying broadcasting in college. I went for many many years without one.

Class seeks to rid kids of Appalachian accents
Friday, February 4, 2005 Posted: 9:20 AM EST (1420 GMT)

PIKEVILLE, Kentucky (AP) -- A new class that seeks to teach youngsters how to lose their Appalachian accents has set off an age-old phonetic debate: Should mountain natives drop the drawl or hold tightly to their twang?

The class, put on by an eastern Kentucky theater group, is designed for children in middle and high schools who want to reduce their accent to "broaden their performance opportunities and improve overall marketability."

"We don't want people to be held back just because they have an accent," said Martin Childers, managing director of Jenny Wiley Theatre in Prestonsburg. "If you want to work professionally, you have to be able to drop the accent when it's required. We want to give people the opportunity to learn to do that."

People from central Appalachia have been wrestling with the accent for as long as they have been driving to northern cities to land jobs. Some quickly adopted the speech patterns of Cincinnati or Detroit co-workers to avoid being ridiculed. Others held onto the accent like a cherished keepsake from home.

The Appalachian accent is the sort of southern drawl heard in the movie "Coal Miner's Daughter," about singer Loretta Lynn, a native of Van Lear, Kentucky. It shows up at times in the fitting of words together into what sounds like one word: "Did you eat?" becomes "jeat?" and "young ones" becomes "young'uns."

An Appalachian accent can be an asset if a casting director wants an authentic mountain sound, but Childers said a strong accent can prevent actors from being able to fill some roles, especially those involving characters from the Northeast or Midwest.

"We're proud of our accent, but there are times we have to lose it in order to get the parts we want," he said. "We're not slamming the accent, but if we need to drop it, we need to be able to do that."

Dee Davis, head of the Center for Rural Strategies, which fights rural stereotypes, said he has no problem with the class as long as teachers keep one thing in mind.

"It's important that they make sure the kids understand that their language is beautiful, that their culture is powerful, and that it's not something they should be embarrassed about," he said.

Davis, a Hazard native who went to the University of Kentucky and the University of Pittsburgh, said some of his classmates had trouble understanding his mountain dialect. When he told them his field of study, "riding," they'd look at him quizzically and say they didn't know it was offered. He'd then spell it: W-R-I-T-I-N-G.

"There's nothing wrong with being able to speak in different accents, but you should above all things hold on to the language you dream in," he said.

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« Reply #33 on: Feb 5^th, 2005, 3:58pm »

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As for dialects, Loretta still sounds the same as when she first married DO!

One critic call her a Hillbilly, as in making fun of her.
Her reply was, "I may be a hillbilly, but I'm a rich hillbilly"!

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« Reply #34 on: Feb 5^th, 2005, 3:59pm »

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Her reply was, "I may be a hillbilly, but I'm a rich hillbilly"!

Well sed.

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« Reply #35 on: Feb 5^th, 2005, 4:01pm »

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Ah thauoght sew mah sif. Wink

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« Reply #36 on: Feb 5^th, 2005, 6:46pm »

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The trick (if you're in the entertainment field) is to learn to speak with multiple accents. Wink

And even the "non accent" taught to students is still an accent if you go to ... say... England, or Austrailia. We still sound American. Grin

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« Reply #37 on: Feb 5^th, 2005, 6:56pm »

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........oh but of course!

Ever ask someone how they are and the answer is, "Far to middlin'"? Lips Sealed

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« Reply #38 on: Feb 5^th, 2005, 8:32pm »

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Luci does "before I got out of my hobbles" mean anything like " before I was free"?

How about some aussie sayings like

" Flat out like a lizard drinking"

" Is a frogs bum water tight"

" let's hit the frog and toad"

" can you give me the dog and Bone"

" need to get back to the trouble and strife"

does anyone have any idea what these mean Grin

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« Reply #39 on: Feb 6^th, 2005, 10:07am »

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Don't have a clue, Bec. I heard (probably from you) that Aussies do a rhyming thing sometimes, using words that sound like the "real" words.......but I can't figure it out. The last one could be ? and wife. dunno! Clue us in.

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« Reply #40 on: Feb 6^th, 2005, 2:38pm »

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Yes Bec, that is what it means! Or when you leave home, etc.

How about when a person asks you, "ows yer mom n 'em?"

P.S. BEC, will you list the meanings for all of those one by one?
I'm Undecided

trying to figure some of them out!

LB is right, we taulk slow and sometimes thaunk slow Lips Sealed

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« Reply #41 on: Feb 6^th, 2005, 8:39pm »

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Flat out like a lizard drinking means ...." you're really busy"

is a frogs bum water tight refers to something being obvious......like when i was pregnant and if someone said " are you pregnant" my reply could have been ...."is a frogs bum water tight?"

Let's hit the frog and toad......." let's hit the road"

give me the dog and bone........can i have the phone.

and gotta get back to the trouble and strife........gotta get home to the wife.

yes pocket you were right....we do alot of rhyming slang.....it's actually called "butcher talk"

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« Reply #42 on: Feb 6^th, 2005, 9:01pm »

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We Asians only have fake Northerners (American) accents. It seems terribly difficult to fake a Southerner's one. I admit that I belong to this cateogary.

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« Reply #43 on: Feb 7^th, 2005, 11:21am »

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I was thinking about my SIL last night. There is a lady on the Food Network (whose name escapes me) who sounds just like my SIL. My SIL would pronounce southern as suhthen. Gosh, I miss that lady.

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« Reply #44 on: Feb 10^th, 2005, 12:17pm »

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MORE SOUTHERNESE Wink

Only a Southerner knows the difference between a hissie fit and a conniption fit, and that you don't "HAVE" them, you "PITCH" them.

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Only a Southerner knows how many fish, collard greens, turnip greens, peas, beans, etc., make up "a mess."

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Only a Southerner can show or point out to you the general direction of "yonder."

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Only a Southerner knows exactly how long "directly" is -- as in: "Going to town, be back directly."

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Even Southern babies know that "Gimme some sugar" is not a request for the white, granular sweet substance that sits in a pretty little bowl in the middle of the table.

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All Southerners know exactly when "by and by" is. They might not use the term, but they know the concept well.

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Only a Southerner knows instinctively that the best gesture of solace for a neighbor who's got trouble is a plate of hot fried chicken and a big bowl of cold potato salad. If the neighbor's trouble is a real crisis, they also know to add a large banana puddin!

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Only Southerners grow up knowing the difference between "right near" and "a right far piece." They also know that "just down the road" can be 1 mile or 20.

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Only a Southerner, both knows and understands, the difference between a redneck, a good ol' boy, and po' white trash.

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No true Southerner would ever assume that the car with the flashing turn signal is actually going to make a turn.

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A Southerner knows that "fixin" can be used as a noun, a verb, or an adverb.

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Only Southerners make friends while standing in lines. we don't do "queues," we do "lines"; and when we're "in line," we talk to everybody!

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Put 100 Southerners in a room and half of them will discover they're related, even if only by marriage.

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Southerners never refer to one person as "ya'll."

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Southerners know grits come from corn and how to eat them.

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Every Southerner knows tomatoes with eggs, bacon, grits, and coffee are perfectly wonderful; that red eye gravy is also a breakfast food; and that fried green tomatoes are not a breakfast food.

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When you hear someone say, "Well, I caught myself lookin'," you know you are in the presence of a genuine Southerner!

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Only true Southerners say "sweet tea" and "sweet milk." Sweet tea indicates the need for sugar and lots of it -- we do not like our tea unsweetened. "Sweet milk" means you don't want buttermilk.

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And a true Southerner knows you don't scream obscenities at little old ladies who drive 30 MPH on the freeway. You just say, "Bless her heart" and go your own way.

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To those of you who're still a little embarrassed by your Southerness Take two tent revivals and a dose of sausage gravy and call me in the morning. Bless your heart!

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And to those of you who are still having a hard time understanding all this Southern stuff, bless your hearts, I hear they are fixin' to have classes on Southerness as a second language!

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And for those that are not from the South but have lived here for a long time, ya'll need a sign to hang on ya'lls front porch that reads "I aint from the South but I got here as fast as I could."

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