Text 1481, 73 rader
Skriven 2006-09-25 09:46:10 av Roger Nelson (1:3828/7)
   Kommentar till text 1472 av Carol Shenkenberger (6:757/1)
Ärende: Re: Southernness
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> *** Quoting Roger Nelson from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***
 
> RN> A Southerner knows that "fixin" can be used as a noun, a verb, or an
> a an adverb.
 
> Now dear.  I be fixing to make a pot of fixin's ta go with.  How ya be
> using a fixin' adverb fer use?
 
Aw, I was hoping for a response to all of them, despite what you state at the
end.
 
> Ok, stretching there.  Adverb.  Humm. Grammer lessons from long ago leave
> me a blank minded zone. 'Modified a verb' or something like that?
 
Some verbs need modifying.
 
> Fixin' definately a verb or noun though.  When noun, most noted as a
> foodie term as in 'goes with the following dish'.  As a verb, normally
> means 'going to' or 'about to (do something)'.  Correct spelling would be
> 'fixing' and a relatively classic earlier english usage no longer used in
> england I think?
 
Correct!
 
> 'Hung About' would be a term for something old that stayed in one area,
> after long abandoned at it's place of origion.  'Hugger down' would be
> possibly related in my area and later expanded in WWI to mean 'dive
> deep'.
 
You mean "hunker down', don't you?  Oh, shoot!  They probably have the same
meaning, depending on which part of the country you were raised in.
 
> RN> In the South, y'all is singular, .. All y'all is plural.
 
> Naw, just clarifies it <g>.
 
Could be.
 
> RN> that fried green tomatoes are not a breakfast food.
 
> Ahem.  Not so.  May be served at breakfast too.  Not normal, but then
> us'uns also eat Pizza sometimes for breakfast.
 
Not around here they ain't!  I have eaten pizza for breakfast a few times.
 
> RN> ain't from the South, but I got here as fast as I could."
 
> Smile...
 
> Judge Keller, used to run the Clemson store (Clemson SC, only store
> thereabouts for a long time) and his wife had me for breakfast one day.
> Fried green tomatoes topped wiith fresh farm eggs and slivers of cured
> ham with thick sliced fresh bread and butter.  Onions at the side and
> beets in a bowl along with muskydines (a sort of grape).
 
Hey!  Y'all stole our football coach (Tommy Bowden)!
 
> (Note, 'had me for breakfast' doenst mean they ate me but a normal
> southern way of saying 'was invited' that non-southern folks might look
> askance at first glance).
 
Ah knowed that.
 
> Most of the rest of the post?  Gee, looks normal to me!
 
You think?  (-:  
 
Regards,
 
Roger

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