Buyer Beware: Frank Babuska Sr

Now that is interesting topic...

 

I am an expert on Southern speak. You want to learn it, I'm your guy.

 

Bless his heart, he forgot to turn at the second big oak tree over yonder.

 

I'm from central Alabama. Southern country redneck English is my mother language.

 

I mean to tell you.

 

You'ns

 

My brother. 6 years Miss'sip, 48 Taylors SC.

 

I'd stretch a country road if I knew I didn't have to walk back.

 

That went south as quick as this thread

 

Or as they say in Eastern North Carolina, „I‘mo tell you whut.“

 

Dude - being able to sing along with the Schlager version of „Country Roads“ doesn‘t count

 

Pros do “summer of ‘69” after 17 beers. So yes, I’m qualified

 

When I was a kid we went to Germany a few times to visit my grandparents. Most younger people could speak English and between my German and their English we were good.

I didn't learn, fixin to, bless your heart, and all y'all, until I moved to Texas. Sweat tea too.

 

I can't even phonetically spell the way they say "house" out on the inner banks.

 

We didn’t know what to say first few times after sitting down in a restaurant (mostly Logan’s Roadhouse) and got asked:”y’all set?”

We just went ahead and ordered but we didn’t really know what it meant what we were asked

 

Watched a remodeling show from Canada, found it really funny how they say hause

 

Why am I picturing the nihilist scene at the restaurant from The Big Lebowski right now?

 

Being a northerner living in the south, dealing with international people all over the globe daily I have to say southern speak (like talking to a true person from up in the moubtsins) is harder for me to understand than Japanese. On the flip side you have to adapt to your environment and even some of the basic southern words I picked up northerners have no idea whst I’m saying.

 

When I went to Wisconsin, I told people there: y’all speak funny up here

 

Well, that Wisconsin/Minnesota twang is a bit different.