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Post by Chocolate Lover on Jan 8, 2015 14:22:36 GMT -5
Only a cup??! They don't make very sweet tea! I have a hard time understanding some of the really bad accents down here, but I have a hard time with some from other locales as well. When I'm required to be polite (you know, working) I'll blame stopped up ears or just say straight up I'm having a hard time processing stuff today. They don't get nearly as offended. Try that one next time. so telling them they talk stupid is offensive? Yep, even the Yankees find it offensive.
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Post by happyhoix on Jan 8, 2015 14:24:31 GMT -5
Man, oh man! Here is a perfect example of ineffective communication in the south. Waitress: do you want something to drink with that? Customer: yes, a Coke. Waitress: Okay, what kind? Customer: um, a Coke. (Said really slowly) Waitress: oh a Coke-Coke! everywhere else Waitress: would you like a drink with that? Customer: Yes, a Coke. waitress: okay! Perfect. One Coke coming up. I ordered Ice Tea in Tennessee once hoping ot avoid that conversation.
My order was met with a "Swaaaade Unswaaade?" comment by the waitress.
It took several tries before I figured out she was asking "Sweetened or Unsweetened?"
I ordered iced tea in Canada once and they gave me tea made from a POWDER from a JAR. TEA POWDER. If you tried to pass that off as 'tea' down here, you would be hanged. Sweet tea (real tea) - the house wine of the South!
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Jan 8, 2015 14:26:34 GMT -5
Would you like help packing so you can move back to where you want to be? Didn't say I didn't like living here. Just said I am often misunderstood by the natives. And you never say anything odd to them I'm sure. I've never heard anyone in my area call a hat a toboggan if that makes you feel any better. I deal with the public a lot and my absolute least favorite thing to hear out of a transplant's mouth is "back home we did it this way" in a snotty voice. I keep wanting to ask "don't you live HERE now?"
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Post by happyhoix on Jan 8, 2015 14:27:51 GMT -5
I have family in the deep south. "Djeet?" = Did you eat yet? Using the wrong word for something bothers me, but I accept that accents are just accents even if it's not intelligible to 90% of the population. But I never could find a graceful way of not sounding like I was correcting people's accent when I can't understand them. It's really hard for me to understand people from the Deep South or people from certain parts of the East coast. I went on a busines trip to Boston and could not understand them at all. And when I asked if the served hushpuppies with their sea food they looked at me like my hair was on fire. I don't know if this was because they didn't understand the words coming out of my mouth, or were outraged that I suggested they should eat their fish with hush puppies. (Which they should - hush puppies are awesome).
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Jan 8, 2015 14:28:17 GMT -5
I ordered Ice Tea in Tennessee once hoping ot avoid that conversation.
My order was met with a "Swaaaade Unswaaade?" comment by the waitress.
It took several tries before I figured out she was asking "Sweetened or Unsweetened?"
I ordered iced tea in Canada once and they gave me tea made from a POWDER from a JAR. TEA POWDER. If you tried to pass that off as 'tea' down here, you would be hanged. Sweet tea (real tea) - the house wine of the South! Tea flavored Kool Aid??!?? Ever try getting a Southerner to drink hot tea? That's a riot. I'll do it (and probably fix it wrong ), but you'll get a lot of resistance from most.
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Post by midjd on Jan 8, 2015 14:29:28 GMT -5
I love accents! I talk to people all over the state and have gotten pretty good at ID-ing the county they're calling from. Which is helpful when they leave a callback number without an area code Indiana is weird, though... go north and all you hear is Chicago/Wiscahnsin, but go below I-70 and you'd swear you were in the Deep South.
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Post by happyhoix on Jan 8, 2015 14:33:39 GMT -5
Didn't say I didn't like living here. Just said I am often misunderstood by the natives. And you never say anything odd to them I'm sure. I've never heard anyone in my area call a hat a toboggan if that makes you feel any better. I deal with the public a lot and my absolute least favorite thing to hear out of a transplant's mouth is "back home we did it this way" in a snotty voice. I keep wanting to ask "don't you live HERE now?" I've actually lived here so long I'm now offended by things Yankees do, too, so I guess I am an equal opportunity annoyed person. Shouting across stores to your friends using very loud New York accents - tacky!
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Post by happyhoix on Jan 8, 2015 14:36:45 GMT -5
I ordered iced tea in Canada once and they gave me tea made from a POWDER from a JAR. TEA POWDER. If you tried to pass that off as 'tea' down here, you would be hanged. Sweet tea (real tea) - the house wine of the South! Tea flavored Kool Aid??!?? Ever try getting a Southerner to drink hot tea? That's a riot. I'll do it (and probably fix it wrong ), but you'll get a lot of resistance from most. Actually, I drink hot tea - probably the only person in my little town that does. DH thinks I'm odd (only coffee should be consumed hot) but doesn't complain because that means more coffee for him.
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Jan 8, 2015 14:36:59 GMT -5
And you never say anything odd to them I'm sure. I've never heard anyone in my area call a hat a toboggan if that makes you feel any better. I deal with the public a lot and my absolute least favorite thing to hear out of a transplant's mouth is "back home we did it this way" in a snotty voice. I keep wanting to ask "don't you live HERE now?" I've actually lived here so long I'm now offended by things Yankees do, too, so I guess I am an equal opportunity annoyed person. Shouting across stores to your friends using very loud New York accents - tacky! We've converted another one!!! I have a supervisor who's from Michigan and doesn't miss that weather at all. My uncle was from Ohio and always said he'd never be able to move back. For the record, I'm only annoyed by people (from anywhere) who act as if you're the stupidest thing they've ever seen while they're asking your for help. Or hoping you don't spit in their food.
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Post by whoisjohngalt on Jan 8, 2015 14:37:11 GMT -5
Didn't read the thread, just the title - ALL.THE.TIME!!!!
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Post by swamp on Jan 8, 2015 14:50:43 GMT -5
Using the wrong word for something bothers me, but I accept that accents are just accents even if it's not intelligible to 90% of the population. But I never could find a graceful way of not sounding like I was correcting people's accent when I can't understand them. It's really hard for me to understand people from the Deep South or people from certain parts of the East coast. I went on a busines trip to Boston and could not understand them at all. And when I asked if the served hushpuppies with their sea food they looked at me like my hair was on fire. I don't know if this was because they didn't understand the words coming out of my mouth, or were outraged that I suggested they should eat their fish with hush puppies. (Which they should - hush puppies are awesome). the only place I've seen hush puppies in the north is Long John Silvers. And I'm sure they don't resemble real hush puppies in any meaningful way.
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Post by wvugurl26 on Jan 8, 2015 14:59:05 GMT -5
A team from our Boston office came to visit. One of them asked me where the water bubbler was. I had no clue what he was talking about. 8am pre-coffee is too early for me to decipher Boston slang.
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Post by yogiii on Jan 8, 2015 15:00:25 GMT -5
LOL - I honestly don't even know what else you'd call it.
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Jan 8, 2015 15:01:06 GMT -5
I went on a busines trip to Boston and could not understand them at all. And when I asked if the served hushpuppies with their sea food they looked at me like my hair was on fire. I don't know if this was because they didn't understand the words coming out of my mouth, or were outraged that I suggested they should eat their fish with hush puppies. (Which they should - hush puppies are awesome). the only place I've seen hush puppies in the north is Long John Silvers. And I'm sure they don't resemble real hush puppies in any meaningful way. If it was fried cornbread it's a start.
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Post by swamp on Jan 8, 2015 15:01:22 GMT -5
LOL - I honestly don't even know what else you'd call it. drinking fountain
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Jan 8, 2015 15:01:45 GMT -5
LOL - I honestly don't even know what else you'd call it. Here it's water fountain. Yes, that's also those decorative things that do spew water and have a statue in them.
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Post by wvugurl26 on Jan 8, 2015 15:02:56 GMT -5
It's a water fountain or drinking fountain! I thought I was pretty good with most of the northeast slang but that one stumped me. My coworkers couldn't figure it out either. I deal with teams all across the country so I'm pretty good with most accents and slang. That one got me.
There is one guy I deal with, I have a very hard time understanding. I think it's Middle Eastern something and his English is questionable at times.
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Post by yogiii on Jan 8, 2015 15:03:11 GMT -5
Sans statue, it's a bubbler
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Jan 8, 2015 15:05:09 GMT -5
I can't think of anything we'd call a bubbler. Y'all are weird
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Post by yogiii on Jan 8, 2015 15:07:31 GMT -5
The fact that I say bubbler should be the least of your concerns
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Post by GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl on Jan 8, 2015 15:13:34 GMT -5
The fact that I say bubbler should be the least of your concerns
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Jan 8, 2015 15:14:50 GMT -5
The fact that I say bubbler should be the least of your concerns I'm all ears
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Post by GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl on Jan 8, 2015 15:15:28 GMT -5
We also drive around rotaries, collect things in elastics, and we didn't vote for Nixon.
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Jan 8, 2015 15:16:25 GMT -5
We also drive around rotaries, collect things in elastics, and we didn't vote for Nixon. WTH is an elastic? I didn't vote for Nixon either, I wasn't old enough Might not have existed yet for that matter
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Post by GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl on Jan 8, 2015 15:16:29 GMT -5
I can't think of anything we'd call a bubbler. Y'all are weird Maybe, but we sure in heck don't paint our house numbers on curbs. Now that, THAT's weird.
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Jan 8, 2015 15:16:50 GMT -5
I can't think of anything we'd call a bubbler. Y'all are weird Maybe, but we sure in heck don't paint our house numbers on curbs. Now that, THAT's weird. Indeed, that is VERY weird.
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Post by midjd on Jan 8, 2015 15:18:44 GMT -5
We have a bubbler in our fish tank. It is a little stone that emits bubbles so the fish can breathe. I wouldn't drink from it, though
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Post by GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl on Jan 8, 2015 15:19:03 GMT -5
Oh, and it is "Root" 128 NOT "Rowt" 128 or 95.
And we have "roofs" on buildings, not "ruffs".
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Post by GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl on Jan 8, 2015 15:19:51 GMT -5
We also drive around rotaries, collect things in elastics, and we didn't vote for Nixon. WTH is an elastic? I didn't vote for Nixon either, I wasn't old enough Might not have existed yet for that matter I could tell you, but then I would have to kill you.
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Jan 8, 2015 15:22:01 GMT -5
Oh, and it is "Root" 128 NOT "Rowt" 128 or 95. And we have "roofs" on buildings, not "ruffs". We have some Roots and some Rowts around here. I think I say roof since I can hear the difference when some old coot say ruff. We still have the letter R in our alphabet down here though.
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