Lessons in Southern English...for all y'all!

Discussion in 'Clean Jokes' started by PottyDoctor, Feb 11, 2007.

  1. PottyDoctor

    PottyDoctor Jeff Foxworthy of Shaving

    Well, yer' in fer' a treat Jeff! They's enough of us southerners around here to help ya' brush on on yer' English....the real kind o' English....Southern English! Hey, and maybe you kin' teach us good ole' boys a French word or two? What d'ya think?

    Lesson # 1 in Southern English

    Y'all
    Pronunciation: 'yol
    Function: Contraction
    Ye all or you all.

    All y'all
    Etymology: Intensive form of y'all
    This usage states "you all" more emphatically. For example, saying "I know y'all," would mean that one knows a group of people; saying, "I know all y'all" would mean that one knows the members of the group individually.

    Now it's all y'alls turn!! :rofl
     
  2. PalmettoB

    PalmettoB The Old Guard

    Good start, Ron.

    Now we'll go on to something them fancy linguists (as opposed to linguini, I suppose...) call "double modals."

    Example: might oughta as in, "yuh might oughta get a raincoat on before yuh go out."

    OR might should, which is a nicer way of saying you SHOULD do something, which might be perceived as rude (and definitely not genteel at all.)
     
  3. Mama Bear

    Mama Bear New Member

    Ah, you oughter wanta as in you oughter wanta put yer galoshes on today......
     
  4. PalmettoB

    PalmettoB The Old Guard

    :rofl :rofl
     
  5. PottyDoctor

    PottyDoctor Jeff Foxworthy of Shaving

    More Southern English

    Fixin'

    Function: Verb
    To get set, or to be on the verge. Example: We're fixin' to go cut some farwood.

    Function: Noun
    Customary accompaniments. Example: We had a turkey dinner with all the fixin's.
     
  6. PalmettoB

    PalmettoB The Old Guard

    STILL more Southern English

    Like to

    Meaning nearly or close to. As in, "I like to fell from that pond bank." (I nearly fell from that pond bank.) or "Dammit. Don't jump out at me like that! I like to had a stroke!" (I came close to having a stroke!)
     
  7. Mama Bear

    Mama Bear New Member

    And, I am fixin' to hurt you! :: Ack! Ya'll are reminding me of my ex! :D :D :D :D

    Edit... Oh! Ron did that one already.. sorry.. lol :blush:
     
  8. Mama Bear

    Mama Bear New Member

    Some body needs to start another thread on this...

    Here's one... Lil' old me...

    Something JoAnna says when she is trying really hard to sound innocent.... it doesn't work but we all know what she is doing.... :D
     
  9. Queen of Blades

    Queen of Blades Mistress of Mischief Staff Member

    Moderator Supporting Vendor
    What? Lil' ole me? Why I's is as innoncent as can be. :o Y'all are just awful!
     
  10. PottyDoctor

    PottyDoctor Jeff Foxworthy of Shaving

    Lesson #1 in Southern English

    Y'all
    Pronunciation: 'yol
    Function: Contraction
    Ye all or you all.

    All y'all
    Etymology: Intensive form of y'all
    This usage states "you all" more emphatically. For example, saying "I know y'all," would mean that one knows a group of people; saying, "I know all y'all" would mean that one knows the members of the group individually.
     
  11. PottyDoctor

    PottyDoctor Jeff Foxworthy of Shaving

    More Southern English

    Fixin'

    Function: Verb
    To get set, or to be on the verge. Example: We're fixin' to go cut some farwood.

    Function: Noun
    Customary accompaniments. Example: We had a turkey dinner with all the fixin's.
     
  12. PottyDoctor

    PottyDoctor Jeff Foxworthy of Shaving

    Move it on over!

    OK, y'all...I took the hint...I started the new "Lessons in Southern English" thread over in the "Clean Jokes" aisle. And copied and pasted my two contris from here over to there.

    Thanks Mama Bear for makin' such a right and proper suggestion. We wouldn't want to get the "Welcome" thread all clogged up with a bunch of edukashunal stuff.

    It's y'alls resposibility to copy and paste your own over there. I can't do everything!

    And, remember, use proper Southern English when postin'. :D
     
  13. Mama Bear

    Mama Bear New Member

    Here we go..... :D Come on out and let's chit chat Southern Style... :D
     
  14. fuerein

    fuerein New Member

    Hmm, you guys (notice this northern's lack of y'all, though my mother did have y'all in her vocab) are downright odd to me. Okay, so I was born in Charleston, SC but we moved to Idaho when I was two and then to Indiana when I was about 6, then moved here to Virginia about 2 years ago (DC part of Virginia though, not a bastion of Southern language or culture). As such you sound quite odd to me, after all there weren't many heavy southern accents in northern indiana.

    Okay, there was the one guy I knew from deep down southern Lousianna (sp?), but his accent was so heavy I barely understood him for the first several months I knew him.
     
  15. crackstar

    crackstar Israeli Ambassador to TSD

    well, Ah reckon some of them jokes are mighty fine! :rofl :rofl

    Jeff
     
  16. Queen of Blades

    Queen of Blades Mistress of Mischief Staff Member

    Moderator Supporting Vendor
    Not bad Jeff!

    A couple more lessons, and you might just pass as a Southerner. :p
     
  17. Mama Bear

    Mama Bear New Member

    Add one more language to the long list of them that Jeff speaks.... :D :D
     
  18. PottyDoctor

    PottyDoctor Jeff Foxworthy of Shaving

    And don't ferget about me...I've learned three languages just from repeatedly dining at some of east Tennessee's classiest international restaurants....Russian, Italian and Thousand Island! :D
     
  19. PottyDoctor

    PottyDoctor Jeff Foxworthy of Shaving

    More Southern English

    Shore

    Function: Adverb
    To be certain, firm, positive or confident; without a doubt. Example: I was shore mama had the winning lotto ticket.

    Shorely

    Function: Adverb
    Certainly, undoubtedly, positively. Example: You shorely can't be serious about eatin' a whole pan of mama's cornbread.
     
  20. PalmettoB

    PalmettoB The Old Guard

    Don't forget French...bleu cheese. :rofl
     

Share This Page