Let's fuck like minks...

[jacintexas]

100% Dixie.. what else could I be being born and raised in Texas

 

[A Desert Rose]

100% Dixie.. what else could I be being born and raised in Texas

You're welcome for the addition to your sig line. ;-)

 

[A Desert Rose]

54% (Dixie). Right on the Mason-Dixon Line

Dam minks!

How is that possible? Aren't you from Michigan, originally?

 

[RJMasters]

How is that possible? Aren't you from Michigan, originally?

Born in raised in Northern Cali.

Spent 8 years in Marine Corps.

Lived 8 years after that in Mich.

Last 5 years back in cali again away from that dang snow.


I have always had a southernish accent, but never been in the south much. Guess that's what happens when you mom is an Oakie.

 

[@}-}rebecca----]

"34% (Yankee). You are definitely a Yankee"
Laughssss .........please see 'location' .......

 

[DVS]

I believe and I could be wrong (it's happened folks, but only once or twice) that the REAL AND ORIGINAL yankee was a New Englander.

I think, (it's happened folks, but only once or twice) midwesterners and westerners are a group unto themselves.

The southerners I used to work with would always say I have an accent. And, I think that will always happen when you are the outsider in another state. And, that's especially true if you see them as having a strong accent. After all, you are the different one, in that case.

So, accent or no accent, if you are the minority, the majority rules. Because I didn't know what a moom pie was, never heard of Steakout or drive through spirits, I was already weird. And, they said I had a twang in my voice. Can you believe that? It was obviously the other way around!

I agree with you ADR, that the origional "yankee" slang was a label for New Englanders, because at the time, that was pretty much all there was for a while. It's funny how a person can live in another area and aquire that area's dialect, but still keep some of his origional yank, too. I wonder...there's probably somebody in the south you could label "southern yankee".

Now, in our discussions, let us be sure we don't confuse "yankee" with "yanker". Although I'm sure some of those New Englanders do it, that label is from another area of the world. Say, we could coin it, though. Anybody up there in New York consider themselves a "yankee yanker"?

 

[brioche]

35% Yankee. And I'm Canadian.

 

[Milambus]

I agree with you ADR, that the origional "yankee" slang was a label for New Englanders, because at the time, that was pretty much all there was for a while. It's funny how a person can live in another area and aquire that area's dialect, but still keep some of his origional yank, too. I wonder...there's probably somebody in the south you could label "southern yankee".

In that case people from Georgia and the Carolina's are Yankees (southern yankees )while people from New York are not, since New York was actually founded by the Dutch as new Amsterdam.

Yes, the technicality police are here =)

Doing a couple mins of research on the 'net shows that there is no clear origin for the word however. I found three sites with basically the same description as the site below (just worded differently, and with the various hypothese in different orders):
http://www.wordorigins.org/wordory.htm

 

[AngelicAssassin]

In that case people from Georgia and the Carolina's are Yankees (southern yankees )while people from New York are not, since New York was actually founded by the Dutch as new Amsterdam.

and now that the New Yorkers have migrated for the last decade and a half to Virginia and North Carolina? Oh wait, i know this answer. "Rude, obnoxious, too busy to listen to an answer to their questions assholes."

Now, ask the "furrinners" from Merry Old England what they call anyone from the US.

Last, click me.

 

[graceanne]

In that case people from Georgia and the Carolina's are Yankees (southern yankees )while people from New York are not, since New York was actually founded by the Dutch as new Amsterdam.

I'll tell you what, you go tell the people in Georgia and North and South Carolina that they're yankees.










I'll watch from over here.

 

[AngelicAssassin]

I'll tell you what, you go tell the people in Georgia and North and South Carolina that they're yankees.

I'll watch from over here.

i lived in North Carolina from 12-21 darlin', no problem. Of the first 12, six were spent in Germany, one on Guam, 18 months in New Jersey, and another 18 in Cali. The remaining two were split into 18 and six month stints in the Great Plains.

While in the service, i did time in Alabama, Tennessee, Texas, and North Carolina with 7 years (in the middle) in Germany again. i go from neutral accent with strangers, to southern honey with those whom i feel comfortable. Those that know understand how wicked that southern honey can be.

 

[FurryFury]

"Those that understand know how wicked that Southern honey can be."

I like that!

*smiles*

Fury

 

[graceanne]

i lived in North Carolina from 12-21 darlin', no problem. Of the first 12, six were spent in Germany, one on Guam, 18 months in New Jersey, and another 18 in Cali. The remaining two were split into 18 and six month stints in the Great Plains.

While in the service, i did time in Alabama, Tennessee, Texas, and North Carolina with 7 years (in the middle) in Germany again. i go from neutral accent with strangers, to southern honey with those whom i feel comfortable. Those that know understand how wicked that southern honey can be.

I actually have whatever accent the people around me have. *shrugs* I'm a chameleon.

 

[AngelicAssassin]

I'm a chameleon.

Don't they have superglue tongues with a root that attaches at the front of the jaw?

 

[FurryFury]

I actually have whatever accent the people around me have. *shrugs* I'm a chameleon.

I do that too. I don't even mean to but I take on the sounds and gestures of those around me.

Great survival stuff that is.

Fury

 

[Miss Diva]

I actually have whatever accent the people around me have. *shrugs* I'm a chameleon.

Actually I do that also. I pick up the nuances, hand gestures, etc. Usually takes about 4 hours and I fit right in.

 

[FurryFury]

It always felt safer to me to "blend in."

Fury

 

[graceanne]

It always felt safer to me to "blend in."

Fury

It is. We moved around a lot when I was a kid. By the time I was 10 I'd lived in 5 states (gone to 7 different schools) and spent all my summers in another - the quicker you can blend in the less trouble you'll have in a new school.

 

[FurryFury]

It is. We moved around a lot when I was a kid. By the time I was 10 I'd lived in 5 states (gone to 7 different schools) and spent all my summers in another - the quicker you can blend in the less trouble you'll have in a new school.

Oh yeah, it took a while but I finally figured out how to fit in. Too bad my 'rents moved me right back to where I already hadn't fit in.

Fury

 

[h_i_s]

I'll tell you what, you go tell the people in Georgia and North and South Carolina that they're yankees.










I'll watch from over here.

hehehe ...... Can i watch you watch???

 

[graceanne]

hehehe ...... Can i watch you watch???

Why don't we just watch together. I'll be serving popcorn. It's kinda like a movie - one with lots of blood and guts.

 

[AngelicAssassin]

hehehe ...... Can i watch you watch???

You are a perv.

 

[graceanne]

You are a perv.

She is?

*glares accusingly at Sinn*

You didn't tell me you were a perv. I'm sorry, I can't watch with you. You might be contagious - and I wouldn't want to become pervy.

 

[AngelicAssassin]

I can't watch with you.

She didn't say with you. She said watch you watching.

Voyeur of voyeurs, how kinky can you get?

 

[Evil_Geoff]

Ladies an' Gennamens,

Ah scor-uhd a respectabill 79 puhcent Dixie. That thay-uh scor-uh is thuh result of spendin' mos' o' muh lie-yuf he-yuh in thuh South.

The other 21 percent comes from having a native cheese-head (that's someone from Wisconsin) for a mother.

An' that's the truth!