Reply to Please explain Southern-style communication to a clueless Yankee

Forum Index » Off-Topic

Reply to "Please explain Southern-style communication to a clueless Yankee"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think one of my favorite long-standing southernisms that I employ often, is when I hate/am annoyed by/want to ignore something, I refer to it as "nice."

"She's really nice."
"Isn't that so nice!"
"What a nice new house!"
"Thanks for having us for lunch. It was so nice."

[/quote]

Hah!  I do the same thing, but I use the word, "lovely:"

"Isn't that lovely!"
"That is just lovely."
"I love it!  It's lovely!"
"Lovely, just. . lovely."

;)[/quote]

Mine is sweet. Someone's kid is acting a fool and they apologize: "Awww... she's sweet. :)"[/quote]

Hilarious - and spot on!  My go-to is "lovely".  You have to be practiced in the art of social niceties and subtleties to decipher the meanings of compliments and invitations.  The bottom line is that no Properly Raised and Polite Person would ever say anything rude outright.  Makes for some interesting social navigation if you aren't used to it!  [/quote]

Wow, Southerners are more rude than I ever expected![/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics