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originally posted by: Flyingclaydisk
a reply to: Krazysh0t
That's my point exactly; I understand what the word is intended to mean, but the fact of the matter is it is an incorrect usage of the word. In fact, it's not even a "word", but two words and it speaks volumes about the intelligence of the person saying it. Physiologically speaking there is no actual derogatory connotation, only one imagined by some PC crowd using this oblique reference. If they had any cojones at all they'd just say "Fat, dumb, redneck slob"...but then they'd probably get their ass kicked (like maybe they should). Instead they try to pass of some meaningless term, like it's code or something, as an insult. Just makes the person saying it look like an idiot.
Like, when I say something in proper English
I'm a city boy living in a redneck town
dixie freak
originally posted by: Flyingclaydisk
a reply to: Krazysh0t
Okay, so here's a test...
What do you think will happen when...
a.) Some little keyboard commando walks up to someone and calls them a "mouthbreather"?
b.) Some little keyboard commando walks up to someone and calls them a "fat, lazy, slob"?
Answer:
a.) Keyboard commando likely gets a pass, and gets the personal satisfaction of thinking he just called someone, whom he would never dare to on his best day, a fat, lazy, slob.
b.) Keyboard commando gets a beating, gets humiliated in front of his 'mouthbreathing' buddies and remembers to never, ever, try stupid crap like that again! Next time he'll stick with a code word which doesn't make any sense (and his adversary will just think he's an idiot).
Make sense now?
originally posted by: sn0rch
originally posted by: Aldakoopa
I don't know if this is a local thing or if it's used across the entire south, but it's more of a phrase than a word...
"Good land, I do reckon!"
Well, after typing that I've decided I really hate the word "reckon" (yet, I use it on occasion because it's been instilled in my vocabulary). But, that phrase makes no logical sense and it really messes with my brain.
Sure it does? Reckon - to be of the opinion. Effectively saying "Good land, I think"
I reckon it makes sense anyway. Now Yinz, thats a word I've never heard before and it exists, and is a contraction of You Ones used in some place over yonder, and it irks me for some reason. Almost as bad as Yous, which does not exist, yet there exists a bunch of Aussies continually spouting off about "yous lot" and it's painful to read.
Yinz Wiki
originally posted by: Flyingclaydisk
"Hella" (something) - is another one.
"Like" (as a descriptor) - "I was like just sitting there, and she like came over and got all like in my face. And I was like...REALLY?" (Go back to the Valley, girl!)
"Bro" - Just LOVE that one, right? Whenever someone says this I feel this sudden, uncontrollable, urge to grab a...tazzer!! ...until medium well done!
originally posted by: fartlordsupreme
well these are some awesome responses yall
i was expecting some super ghetto hillybilly style responses
but yinz are actually doing pretty good
ya dern whippersnappers certainly aint no mouthbreathers
suppsebly its a matter of national security that we continue this mission
so lets do our best and get this done instantaneously
....YOLO
originally posted by: Flyingclaydisk
"Hella" (something) - is another one.
"Like" (as a descriptor) - "I was like just sitting there, and she like came over and got all like in my face. And I was like...REALLY?" (Go back to the Valley, girl!)
"Bro" - Just LOVE that one, right? Whenever someone says this I feel this sudden, uncontrollable, urge to grab a...tazzer!! ...until medium well done!