I dont get out much (out of province) and I'm from Niagara Falls Ontario up here in good ol' canada.


Now I watch the way some of you people type and the way you talk travels into your slang a bit. Everyone knows anywhere you go people talk a little different...

Well I had a guy on the phone the other night from South Carolina. (cant tell you where, as part of security I have to forget everything I see at work when I leave...but it was South Carolina) and he had a really thick accent. Just reminded me of you guys.


Funny, all the time I worked in sales for Nike Canada (and dealt with ALOT of tourists) I had alot of New Yorkers, alot of English people and everything in between but nobody from the southern states.


Do you guys ever come up here for vacation or do you just like home to much?


Chado

 

I love my home to much way out in the country on a bayou lol..


Ya I reckin we talk different but I think ya'll have an accent...Guess every state or area is different...Northest I been is Memphis Tennessee

 

From what I have heard, Canada is a great vacation destination. However, "vacation" isn't possible for me right now or in the near future. Trying to finish up school, then there's work... you know the drill.

I'm fortunate because I live 90 minutes from the beach and 5 hours away from the mountains. This past December, I went with some friends to Asheville, and we did the Christmas tour of the Biltmore Estate. The enormity of the main house and the amount of work that went into decorating for Christmas was amazing. That was a GREAT weekend getaway! North Carolina has many wonderful places for weekend getaways.

You are correct with your observation about southern slang. Sometimes it does creep into a typed message. We do have different ways of describing things, but it doesn't take long to figure it out when you think about the context of the message or conversation.

You'll know that you're in good graces with a Southerner when you have been honored with an invitation to go on a Snipe hunt. I would be negligent if I didn't offer you some advice. Don't turn down the invitation. If you do, it would be a huge insult to the person who extended the invitation.

 

Why would we want to travel up north? we are already living in heaven...... Just remember to follow the bag limits on your Snipe hunt. Here in Alabama it is 8 a day limit. check out this link for other bag limits and season dates... http://www.dcnr.state.al.us/agfd/seasons.html

 

snipe hunting..........

No I would have never thought to go to Canada, I enjoyed the nature that was local to me. Being stuck In Pa now I am thinking of visiting Canada (because its close).

For what its worth I may have been able to consciously get rid of my accent (most of it) but I still use the words like reckin and gunna and I doubt that will ever change, even if I never get to go "home"

 

Vay-cayshunnin'!!!

Now, attair is sho to leave a man's quality time plumb ruint.

Lessers s'm good feeshin' up 'rounnair...

 

The funny thing is we don't hear ourselves as others do. Many years ago I was spinning records and talking an hour a day on a little FM station that no one listened to and I thought I was getting pretty good at it. One day I flipped on a recorder and made a tape of the hour. My ego was really deflated when I listened to the recording and wondered, "Who is that hillbilly?" - I was really baaaad. I took speech courses and joined a Toastmasters club in an effort to improve, but I probably still sound like a hillbilly.
Dono

 

Same here Dono, I have a Texas Accent and althought im proud of it, I myself dont hear it when i talk. My friends say i talk monotone and without expression, but to me it sounds like i am. i never believed it until i heard a tape of myself. and droptop, id like to take every yankee on a snipe hunt just to see how many we can catch (if you get what i mean, and i hope you do)

 

Personally, I always thought it was them folks what live up north that talk funny.

*****

 

I see that a lot of my neighbors are really western in their slang ways. I am kinda the same way I suppose.

I ususally have to read treb's posts a couple times to decipher it.

Up here you can shoot 45 snipes/day and have 90 in possession. They are so quick though. I am not joking, a snipe is a bird, and they are disgusting but fun to shoot.

 

Hey Chado, I was born and raised on a farm in Michigan's Upper Peninsula (further north than Niagra Falls, ON) I agree with you, the north country is a beautiful place to vacation, hunt and fish (if you can handle mosquito's the size of seagulls). I live in Virginia now because of my age I can not handle the winters up there. I do however make my annual summer trips up there.

 

aint got nothin against canada or wherever but dont need go up yonder or over yonder got all i like right hear i recon yall take care now ya hear

 

Well I hear Toby Keith is going on tour sometime in the near future to promote his upcoming album. If he decides to only tour the states I may come down south to see him, I figure a plane ticket is cheap enough these days and a room for a night shouldn't be bad. So maybe I'll end up seeing some of you folks (I assume we have a bunch of Toby Keith fans around here?) Anyway, the only thing I notice about people up here is that we talk fast. I talk EXTREMELY fast and have to slow down my speech at work as I have to talk to people whose first language isn't always english. (mostly the damn french people...but since I dont speak french very well I dont have to talk to them USUALLY sometimes they like to "practice" english on me )


Anyway, from the things I've read/seen about the southern states I can see why you'd have no reason to leave.


mantta do you have a house up here or do you just come for a week at a time? I see alot of people (in my neighbourhood even) who own BIG 5th wheels and take off for 6 months a year and park it in there driveway all summer long.

It's not the snow I dislike, I actually like snow (snowmobiling is one of my more preferred offroad vehicles) but its the salt on the roads that rust the cars that annoy me. I cant handle how all the cars fall apart and I see undercarriage pics of california cars that dont have a spec of rust on them !!!! That bothers me

(a 1979 F-150 4x4 in mint shape goes for about 14,000$CDN around here...there was one just in paper for 14,500$ certified.)





Chado

 

Ford51,
Of course I know what you mean. Anything less would sully your families good name and be considered a "dereliction of duty" of your responsibility to uphold the honorable tradition of Southern Hospitality.

 

Working the vacation rental bizz, I hear so many accents dialects and drawls so often that I feel like I have an accent m'seff.