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"I don't understand. But I don't care, so it works out."
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So many of the things listed here are things my friends and I say.
For example, starting off with "so". If you say "so" firmly, and then pause, everyone is on alert that they need to pay attention, you're about to ask for a decision, you're not just commenting. "So. What have we decided to do about the car?"
I love "welp". It's just funny. "Welp, that cat litter box isn't going to clean itself".
And "what not". If you say it after something that's kind of shocking. Like, "let's go in the afternoon, after the park service has had a chance to clean up all the used condoms and whatnot".
What bothers me is people who use phrases that they obviously have no idea what they mean. Like cafe au lait poodles called cafe ole, or "for all intensive purposes".
OK. It's a contraction of "fixin' to go." Another cousin is "finna."
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that some people who think they are saying (and hearing) "fixin' to" (which is also weird but I digress) are really saying and hearing "finna." Or even "fidna!"
I heard a cassette tape recording of my family when I was about seven, and OH MY GOSH, I had a serious southern drawl! I mean, SERIOUS. I had no idea. And I don't sound like that now, having lived in many other places since then, though I do have a southern accent. But my point is that we often don't sound like we think we sound.
Anyway, I didn't just dream this up. In fact, I never even heard this phrase till I moved to Texas but that's just my own personal experience in northeast Texas which many would say is actually part of the deep south.
I don't think you dreamed it up. When I have time later, I will go through your links. This will be interesting. BTW, I only get my Texas accent when I visit Texas. It always makes my husband and daughter laugh.
I don't think you dreamed it up. When I have time later, I will go through your links. This will be interesting. BTW, I only get my Texas accent when I visit Texas. It always makes my husband and daughter laugh.
Hey, my ex husband starts talking with a German accent when he's in Germany. Which I think is really weird! At least you're not doing that - at least you did actually HAVE a Texas accent!
When I went back to my high school reunion in Georgia, after living in Texas for 20 years, everyone was saying "Wow, you sure do have a Texas accent!" but my husband was saying, "Wow, your Georgia accent just jumped right out!" (I lived there for ten years, through high school and college and before that I lived in NC and VA so I definitely have a southern drawl, but Texan has more of a twang to it I guess. Or I reckon. )
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I don't think you dreamed it up. When I have time later, I will go through your links. This will be interesting. BTW, I only get my Texas accent when I visit Texas. It always makes my husband and daughter laugh.