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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2015 12:16:30 GMT -5
I think a bubbler is a water fountain. I have no idea why I think that or where that would be the word for it. Am I right?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2015 12:30:45 GMT -5
At her job, DD has to interact in person with people from all over the world. It has become clear to her that she does indeed have a Southern drawl. People from other parts of the US don't always understand what she's saying, never mind people for whom English is a second language. She was kind of dismayed to realize how she probably sounds to people from other areas, when it sounds normal to her. I told her she needs to develop a "business" voice for work because while I have one too, I think that the Southern drawl doesn't really sound like the person speaking is the brightest bulb in the bunch when the listener isn't use to hearing it.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Sept 11, 2015 12:42:41 GMT -5
At her job, DD has to interact in person with people from all over the world. It has become clear to her that she does indeed have a Southern drawl. People from other parts of the US don't always understand what she's saying, never mind people for whom English is a second language. She was kind of dismayed to realize how she probably sounds to people from other areas, when it sounds normal to her. I told her she needs to develop a "business" voice for work because while I have one too, I think that the Southern drawl doesn't really sound like the person speaking is the brightest bulb in the bunch when the listener isn't use to hearing it. I heard a lot of this when I lived in KY. We had an admin who had a really neutral accent, but her daughter's accent was really strong. When I asked the admin about it, she told me that her accent used to be as bad, but she realized that she needed to drop the southern drawl to get ahead. She had to take a LOT of speech classes in college to get rid of it.
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Post by cael on Sept 11, 2015 12:51:21 GMT -5
My first job (which I was at until 7 years ago) was in a call center for a clothing catalog, and we got calls from all over the country. I got so good at pinpointing where people were from based on accents! Fun to listen to the inflections and ways people pronounce things and figure out where they're from. I have a friend from OH and sarcasticgirl, yeah I totally get what you mean with the A pronunciation. It is there even if it's subtle. My SIL swears she doesn't have a NJ accent, but she says wood-er instead of 'water'. Just like I don't have a Boston accent but I will admit I say shaahp instead of 'sharp'. I think having a bit of an ear for accents and colloquialisms is kind of fun, too. Was in a restaurant in Dublin. Our waiter obviously didn't grow up in Ireland. When I asked him where in North Georgia he was from, he seemed a little surprised. Then he told me he'd grown up in Athens. Just 30 miles down the road from where I'd worked for a couple of years. Knowledge test: If I talk about finding a bubbler, what do I want and where did I grow up? You grew up a Masshole like me and want the water fountain! I say bubbler sometimes outside of here and people look at me funny. I always forget it's a regional thing.
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Sept 11, 2015 13:12:11 GMT -5
I think having a bit of an ear for accents and colloquialisms is kind of fun, too. Was in a restaurant in Dublin. Our waiter obviously didn't grow up in Ireland. When I asked him where in North Georgia he was from, he seemed a little surprised. Then he told me he'd grown up in Athens. Just 30 miles down the road from where I'd worked for a couple of years. Knowledge test: If I talk about finding a bubbler, what do I want and where did I grow up? You grew up a Masshole like me and want the water fountain! I say bubbler sometimes outside of here and people look at me funny. I always forget it's a regional thing. Or you grew up in Wisconsin. We have bubblers! But you don't hear that as much anymore.
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Post by cael on Sept 11, 2015 13:23:27 GMT -5
Oh, yeah?! I didn't realize it was a thing elsewhere too!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2015 13:25:22 GMT -5
Oh, yeah?! I didn't realize it was a thing elsewhere too! Do we need to resurrect the regional dialect thread? I didn't know what a bubbler was either when I moved here from all of one state away. Silly me called it a water fountain.
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Post by wvugurl26 on Sept 11, 2015 13:26:55 GMT -5
My first job (which I was at until 7 years ago) was in a call center for a clothing catalog, and we got calls from all over the country. I got so good at pinpointing where people were from based on accents! Fun to listen to the inflections and ways people pronounce things and figure out where they're from. I have a friend from OH and sarcasticgirl, yeah I totally get what you mean with the A pronunciation. It is there even if it's subtle. My SIL swears she doesn't have a NJ accent, but she says wood-er instead of 'water'. Just like I don't have a Boston accent but I will admit I say shaahp instead of 'sharp'. I think having a bit of an ear for accents and colloquialisms is kind of fun, too. Was in a restaurant in Dublin. Our waiter obviously didn't grow up in Ireland. When I asked him where in North Georgia he was from, he seemed a little surprised. Then he told me he'd grown up in Athens. Just 30 miles down the road from where I'd worked for a couple of years. Knowledge test: If I talk about finding a bubbler, what do I want and where did I grow up? A guy from our Boston office asked me where the water bubbler was at like 8am one morning and I had no idea wtf he was talking about.
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Post by ArchietheDragon on Sept 11, 2015 13:26:51 GMT -5
what would you get if you go to the packy?
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Post by cael on Sept 11, 2015 13:28:13 GMT -5
what would you get if you go to the packy? Liquah, kehd.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2015 14:03:44 GMT -5
I wonder how I knew what a bubbler was since I've never been to either state. I guess I've either come across it in my endless reading or I've run into someone before that called it a bubbler.
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Post by wvugurl26 on Sept 11, 2015 14:05:21 GMT -5
what would you get if you go to the packy? That I know! Booze!
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Post by 8 Bit WWBG on Sept 11, 2015 15:13:26 GMT -5
A co-worker once told me about how she had a system with her friends. She would go chat up a guy, and she'd have a signal when she thought she was close to getting a drink offer. Her friends, watching for this signal, would come up to say hi and often end up getting drinks bought for them too. I'm not sure the drink buyer ever got much for his investment.
DW told me she'd flirt her way out of tickets and whatnot in her youth. Funny thing about getting older though, the last time we got out of a ticket, it had more to do with a spotless record than any come hither look.
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Post by tskeeter on Sept 11, 2015 17:17:07 GMT -5
And "the I" And you know what vartik is. If you're from the right part of 'sconsin.
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Post by tskeeter on Sept 11, 2015 17:27:04 GMT -5
I think having a bit of an ear for accents and colloquialisms is kind of fun, too. Was in a restaurant in Dublin. Our waiter obviously didn't grow up in Ireland. When I asked him where in North Georgia he was from, he seemed a little surprised. Then he told me he'd grown up in Athens. Just 30 miles down the road from where I'd worked for a couple of years. Knowledge test: If I talk about finding a bubbler, what do I want and where did I grow up? You grew up a Masshole like me and want the water fountain! I say bubbler sometimes outside of here and people look at me funny. I always forget it's a regional thing. I was thinking southeastern Wisconsin. Home of the Milwaukee Bubbler Company (and Kohler, the designer of the first bubbler style drinking fountain). Didn't know that the term bubbler was also common to Mass and RI (thanks, wiki).
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Post by MJ2.0 on Sept 11, 2015 20:58:25 GMT -5
I have no idea what you all are talking about. We have distribution centers in NC and GA so I do get to hear the southern accent a decent amount. I have to make a concerted effort to ignore it. For some reason southern accents make me mentally relax, I guess because the stereotypical southern way is slower and more relaxed.
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Post by MJ2.0 on Sept 12, 2015 18:10:16 GMT -5
Go on Youtube and look up the Jack Chop video, that's close enough to real Revere for you. I can't think of any other examples. (video is NSFW!)
I don't mind the Boston accent, depending on the person. I don't have much of one, my SIL would say otherwise though lol. Just watched the Jack Chop video. That accent is definitely not a panty-dropper.
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Post by mojothehelpermonkey on Sept 15, 2015 19:40:13 GMT -5
You grew up a Masshole like me and want the water fountain! I say bubbler sometimes outside of here and people look at me funny. I always forget it's a regional thing. Or you grew up in Wisconsin. We have bubblers! But you don't hear that as much anymore. I was just listening to a podcast where they were interviewing the Violent Femmes (a band that started in Milwaukee). One of the band members now lives in Tasmania, and he said that they call it a bubbler there too.
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Post by happyhoix on Sept 16, 2015 14:06:29 GMT -5
Guess what people in East Tennessee do with toboggans?
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Post by andi9899 on Sept 16, 2015 14:17:05 GMT -5
Guess what people in East Tennessee do with toboggans? Sled
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Post by happyhoix on Sept 16, 2015 14:22:29 GMT -5
Guess what people in East Tennessee do with toboggans? Sled Nope. Toboggans are knit hats you wear in the winter. (I showed DH, a Southerner, the picture of a toboggan for sale in an LL Bean catalog, but he insists LL Bean and the entire rest of the country is WRONG - toboggans are what you wear on your head. ) He said 'well then what do you call the hats you wear in winter?? I said "A knit hat, a snow hat, or just a HAT. Not a TOBOGGAN." He remains unmoved. He still wears his toboggan on his head.
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Post by Bonny on Sept 17, 2015 12:42:56 GMT -5
Weird dining experience Tuesday evening made me think of this thread and the messages people send out with their appearance and attempts to look "attractive".
We went to dinner at a local pizza joint at the north end of town on Tuesday. The north end tends to be lower income for the most part.
All the waitresses were young, say early-mid 20s, seriously overweight (probably borderline obese) wearing tight clothes with lots of cleavage.
My first take was that someone told them that they would get better tips if they showed lots of cleavage. My other take was if you eat here a lot you will be fat. Waitressing for the most part means a lot of running around. These girls must be eating A LOT to stay that heavy.
I'm sure there are a lot of other ways to interpret what I saw. Food was o.k. but we probably won't return for a while.
Mostly I felt sad for these young women.
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Post by bobosensei on Sept 23, 2015 12:31:48 GMT -5
Nope. Toboggans are knit hats you wear in the winter. (I showed DH, a Southerner, the picture of a toboggan for sale in an LL Bean catalog, but he insists LL Bean and the entire rest of the country is WRONG - toboggans are what you wear on your head. ) He said 'well then what do you call the hats you wear in winter?? I said "A knit hat, a snow hat, or just a HAT. Not a TOBOGGAN." He remains unmoved. He still wears his toboggan on his head. I grew up in north GA, about an hour from Chattanooga. We call them toboggans too. Maybe because I only remember having snow 2 times in 20 years, there was no confusion over what you meant. No one had a sled because it never snowed. The rare occasions school was out it was due to ice on the road, nothing on the ground that you could sled on. On the rare occasions it did snow, we improvised. When we had the "great blizzard of 93" which was actually only about a foot of snow but a week without power, we went sledding with pieces of fiberglass roof panels and everyone wore their toboggans on their heads!
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Post by swamp on Sept 23, 2015 12:44:42 GMT -5
Nope. Toboggans are knit hats you wear in the winter. (I showed DH, a Southerner, the picture of a toboggan for sale in an LL Bean catalog, but he insists LL Bean and the entire rest of the country is WRONG - toboggans are what you wear on your head. ) He said 'well then what do you call the hats you wear in winter?? I said "A knit hat, a snow hat, or just a HAT. Not a TOBOGGAN." He remains unmoved. He still wears his toboggan on his head. It's a toque
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Post by yogiii on Sept 23, 2015 12:51:17 GMT -5
Nope. Toboggans are knit hats you wear in the winter. (I showed DH, a Southerner, the picture of a toboggan for sale in an LL Bean catalog, but he insists LL Bean and the entire rest of the country is WRONG - toboggans are what you wear on your head. ) He said 'well then what do you call the hats you wear in winter?? I said "A knit hat, a snow hat, or just a HAT. Not a TOBOGGAN." He remains unmoved. He still wears his toboggan on his head. It's a toque Oui, Memere
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Sept 23, 2015 13:46:57 GMT -5
Nope. Toboggans are knit hats you wear in the winter. (I showed DH, a Southerner, the picture of a toboggan for sale in an LL Bean catalog, but he insists LL Bean and the entire rest of the country is WRONG - toboggans are what you wear on your head. ) He said 'well then what do you call the hats you wear in winter?? I said "A knit hat, a snow hat, or just a HAT. Not a TOBOGGAN." He remains unmoved. He still wears his toboggan on his head. I grew up in north GA, about an hour from Chattanooga. We call them toboggans too. Maybe because I only remember having snow 2 times in 20 years, there was no confusion over what you meant. No one had a sled because it never snowed. The rare occasions school was out it was due to ice on the road, nothing on the ground that you could sled on. On the rare occasions it did snow, we improvised. When we had the " great blizzard of 93" which was actually only about a foot of snow but a week without power, we went sledding with pieces of fiberglass roof panels and everyone wore their toboggans on their heads! I remember that! Last time there was snow here where I live, although everyone I talk to wants to put it 94, I *know* it was in 93. I think we had 6 inches of snow, maybe, and it stuck in the shadows overnight.
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Sept 23, 2015 13:48:06 GMT -5
Nope. Toboggans are knit hats you wear in the winter. (I showed DH, a Southerner, the picture of a toboggan for sale in an LL Bean catalog, but he insists LL Bean and the entire rest of the country is WRONG - toboggans are what you wear on your head. ) He said 'well then what do you call the hats you wear in winter?? I said "A knit hat, a snow hat, or just a HAT. Not a TOBOGGAN." He remains unmoved. He still wears his toboggan on his head. It's a toque Thanks to YM I knew what that was when I was reading a Canadian book the other day. Not that it would have been hard to figure out using the context and all.
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