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A lesson in Southern Dialect
13 years ago
Hello everyone,
Ok after having a 30 minute conversation with my current boss (had one just as long with the one we had before) that both have come from Northerner states (WisCONsin and Illinois). And being a master of many southern dialects: North Georgia moutians, South Georgia sticks, Hill Billy (that's a derogatory term it's Appalachian American), Mississippi Delta, Florida Everglades, and some Texan now (We're only missing Cajun). I feel this needs to be addressed just in case any northern statesmen happen to find themselves lost in southern state they can communicate a little better.
The phrase we'll be learning today is "fixin to"
What it actually means: getting ready to, about to, etc. (he couldn't come up with more examples)
How it is used: I'm fixin to leave, I'm fixin to turn on the game, I'm fixin to go the grocery store (Wow those are the examples you came up with? Nothing funnier huh?)
Most northerners get confused with these statements (shouldn't be that hard really). They like to argue it should be dropped and anyone of it's synonyms put in its place. Why should we, it such an easy phrase to say (and if you say it with the stereotypical southern draw it comes out so perfectly). They also say, "Why just say you are leaving or doing something?" Because I am not leaving or doing something I am preparing to do so (duh). If I am leaving to go somewhere there is process to leave (he has to grab his keys, wallet, and God knows what-else) that is act of the "fixing to". The act of leaving is actually walking out to my door and into my Ford Escape. It is highly important to correlated between the two of these actions.
Now there is one more MAJOR thing with this phrase (you know you've made it us look like idiots explaining this so detailed). Never ever does the "g" get added to the end of "fixin". It will always remain without the g. If someone uses the proper "ing" ending it confuses people into thinking you are actually repair something (ya know with wrenches, screws, the whole 9 yards).
This ends our lesson in southern dialect, we hope you learned something today (he hopes you did but probably not XD)
Thanks for reading,
KaGe (and his fursona's voice inside his head :D)
Ok after having a 30 minute conversation with my current boss (had one just as long with the one we had before) that both have come from Northerner states (WisCONsin and Illinois). And being a master of many southern dialects: North Georgia moutians, South Georgia sticks, Hill Billy (that's a derogatory term it's Appalachian American), Mississippi Delta, Florida Everglades, and some Texan now (We're only missing Cajun). I feel this needs to be addressed just in case any northern statesmen happen to find themselves lost in southern state they can communicate a little better.
The phrase we'll be learning today is "fixin to"
What it actually means: getting ready to, about to, etc. (he couldn't come up with more examples)
How it is used: I'm fixin to leave, I'm fixin to turn on the game, I'm fixin to go the grocery store (Wow those are the examples you came up with? Nothing funnier huh?)
Most northerners get confused with these statements (shouldn't be that hard really). They like to argue it should be dropped and anyone of it's synonyms put in its place. Why should we, it such an easy phrase to say (and if you say it with the stereotypical southern draw it comes out so perfectly). They also say, "Why just say you are leaving or doing something?" Because I am not leaving or doing something I am preparing to do so (duh). If I am leaving to go somewhere there is process to leave (he has to grab his keys, wallet, and God knows what-else) that is act of the "fixing to". The act of leaving is actually walking out to my door and into my Ford Escape. It is highly important to correlated between the two of these actions.
Now there is one more MAJOR thing with this phrase (you know you've made it us look like idiots explaining this so detailed). Never ever does the "g" get added to the end of "fixin". It will always remain without the g. If someone uses the proper "ing" ending it confuses people into thinking you are actually repair something (ya know with wrenches, screws, the whole 9 yards).
This ends our lesson in southern dialect, we hope you learned something today (he hopes you did but probably not XD)
Thanks for reading,
KaGe (and his fursona's voice inside his head :D)
I love how every soda is "coke" try being in Atlanta where there are like 100 million versions of coke
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola_Freestyle