Pretending to be Southern

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m from the Deep South. I would recognize a fake accent and fake speech pattern and wonder what was wrong with the speaker. Tell your DH he isn’t fooling anyone. You don’t become southern. A cat could have kittens in an oven but it wouldn’t make them biscuits.

This is true. Can smell a fake a mile away.

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Anonymous wrote:My mother is from Rome GA and actually went to elocution school to lose the accent.

Why? Never wanted to lose my southern accent and have not. Very successful in dc area and love living here. I also like the people in this area. Been here 20 yrs.

[Anonymous]

I’m from New York - not NYC. We say cookout not bbq. We say pig roast not bbq. We say bbq for bbq. Also used Mama, Mom, Mommy. Grammy, Grandpa, Nana, Gramps. You sound kind of odd, tbh,

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Well, hush my mouth!

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Frankly Scarlett, I don’t give a damn!

[Anonymous]

OP, next time your husband makes this request just say “Sorry Jimbar, but that dog won’t hunt.”

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Anonymous wrote:I’m from northern VA. One of my childhood friends went to UNC and she came back for winter break with a full on southern accent and a love of country music. It was so weird (she joined a sorority so I guess it was like a Southern Immersion Program or something!)

Sororities are not southern immersion programs dumbass.

NP here, who is from RVA, went to UNC and was in a sorority.

GMAFB with that brew ha ha story. Don’t believe a lick of it. Sounds kind your friend was pretty smart to get in OOS. Go Heels!

[Anonymous]

Did not read the previous age 8 pages. I am from the south and lived for a time way out in the country. What your husband is saying is southern is not southern, but rural speak. I rode on a school bus and what he suggests is how the locals that lived in very rural parts of the county phrased things. Very strange how different the conversations were phrased on the bus compared to how my friends from the regular neighborhoods spoke ( and how I spoke when not on the school bus). Southern is ridiculously infectious way to talk). Having lived in other parts of the country, people also assumed that I wasn’t very intelligent when they heard my exaggerated accent, but did tip better.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m from northern VA. One of my childhood friends went to UNC and she came back for winter break with a full on southern accent and a love of country music. It was so weird (she joined a sorority so I guess it was like a Southern Immersion Program or something!)

Sororities are not southern immersion programs dumbass.

NP here, who is from RVA, went to UNC and was in a sorority.

GMAFB with that brew ha ha story. Don’t believe a lick of it. Sounds kind your friend was pretty smart to get in OOS. Go Heels!

Only chiming in to say also, GO HEELS!

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Anonymous wrote:I’m from northern VA. One of my childhood friends went to UNC and she came back for winter break with a full on southern accent and a love of country music. It was so weird (she joined a sorority so I guess it was like a Southern Immersion Program or something!)

Funny. I'm from the south, went to unc in the early 80s and came home with a NJ accent. Duke, UNC and other NC schools were over run by kids from up north.

So true. My ex girlfriend went to Duke and she used to call it SUNY (State University of New York) at Durham.

This is definitely still true at Duke and was NEVER true at UNC, which has a long standing cap of 18% OOS (and that includes the athletes). Nice try.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m from northern VA. One of my childhood friends went to UNC and she came back for winter break with a full on southern accent and a love of country music. It was so weird (she joined a sorority so I guess it was like a Southern Immersion Program or something!)

Funny. I'm from the south, went to unc in the early 80s and came home with a NJ accent. Duke, UNC and other NC schools were over run by kids from up north.

So true. My ex girlfriend went to Duke and she used to call it SUNY (State University of New York) at Durham.

Duke was Jersey U at Durm. The city was always just one syllable. I swear back then something like 80% of Duke students were from NJ. UNC wasn't as bad, but still...

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Anonymous wrote:I’m from northern VA. One of my childhood friends went to UNC and she came back for winter break with a full on southern accent and a love of country music. It was so weird (she joined a sorority so I guess it was like a Southern Immersion Program or something!)

Funny. I'm from the south, went to unc in the early 80s and came home with a NJ accent. Duke, UNC and other NC schools were over run by kids from up north.

So true. My ex girlfriend went to Duke and she used to call it SUNY (State University of New York) at Durham.

This is definitely still true at Duke and was NEVER true at UNC, which has a long standing cap of 18% OOS (and that includes the athletes). Nice try.

Erhinghaus dorm was at least 50% Jersyites back in the 80s. PP you have no idea.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, next time your husband makes this request just say “Sorry Jimbar, but that dog won’t hunt.”

Omg, I love this. Everyone who knows me is going to hear this way too much.

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Anonymous wrote:This must be a troll. I don't understand this at all.

I don't know anyone who says cookout. It's BBQ. But I'm from TX, not the South[b], so maybe it's different there but never heard that.

I will say that while I have hints of Texas-isms in my speech I don't force that on my kids. My kids speak like they're from NOVA, which is how it should be. How odd.

Pssst Texas is the South.

OP, it sounds like a mental disorder.

Yeah, so you missed the part where it says, I"m from Texas, not the South explicitly in the post, huh?

No, he was correcting the PP. Wasn't that obvious?

Texas was part of the Confederacy. It's the south. I know Texans take pride in being unique, or thinking they are, at least, [b]but to the rest of the country, they're part of the South, geographically, culturally, and politically.

That's because you're too lazy to understand nuance in culture. The cultures are not the same at all. But if you're not really familiar with either, you wouldn't be able to identify the differences.

Uh huh. You know, people who grew up in Montgomery County, MD, and Arlington, VA, insist that there are dramatic differences between the two counties, they'd never live in the other one, yada yada yada. To the rest of the thinking world, they're exactly the freakin' same.

That little parable seems relevant here.

Texas is a big state with distinctly different cultures based primarily on geography, but also by race. I do not think there is "one" Texan culture. I am from East Texas, (my parents are from Georgia and Alabama, so I have been to those two states, a lot), and I think that basically East Texas is the deep south culturally.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DH insists that we raise our children to speak like they are southern. I love the south and the southern culture, but we live in Northern Virginia. People don't speak that way here. My DH is just a poser. Whenever I am telling a story or visiting with other moms, my DH will interrupt me to correct a term I use if it isn't southern. For example, if I refer to a BBQ, he steps in and says "cook out". If I use the word "mom", he steps in and says "momma". All the flipping time. I should add he was raised is rural Pennsylvania and no one else in his family uses southern terms. I have progressed from giving him the evil eye to telling him how unattractive his behavior is and that enough is enough. Bless his heart!

Rant over.

Does he insist on another phrase when you say "All the flipping time?"

I would.