Indiana isn’t the south. It’s the Midwest. Like Illinois, Indiana is just sort of a suburb of WI but you guys talk funny there as well. In WI we pronounce words as you would see them in a dictionary. And we are not prone to using words not found in the dictionary. We don’t add an “R” to “Wash” We don’t say “Afore because we know the correct word is “Before” We aren’t “Agonna” or “Fixin” We just do it. We correctly ask how you are feeling and don’t ask how “Y’all” or “All-y’all” are feeling. If our car gets a flat, we don’t have a flat “Tar”. We don’t have Purdy, reckon, gol derned, breetches, and tarnation. We speak English. WI does however have some odd named towns. When I preparing (not afix’in) to move to a SE city named Oconomowoc, Even long time WI residents would make an odd comment. They would say “Wear the fox hat” Over and over this happened. I eventually broke down and got a fox hat a proudly wore it but I was the only one wearing one. It wasn’t until another new resident stopped me on the sidewalk to tell me what they were really saying. I just wasn’t listening slow enough to catch it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb0kiiB3O-o
This is the boiled down truth of the matter. Still working on my buddy who moved down to Birmingham this past year from Fargo, ND.... He is holding strong, but before we graduate I WILL have him saying y'all. Chalk it up.
I do like how Rancid believes that not having any type of dialect a good thing. As if not having a distinguishable trait is a cause of celebration. I think it would make for a very bland and boring community. Yep, that is how I imagine Wisconsin.
I've been all over this country. In WI, proper English is used. It’s one of the few places in the nation where proper English is used. I've had the misfortune of spending time in the South. I can see why people here say TV shows based in the south use subtitles. Those poor souls have not mastered the English language and took to creating a sub language sort of like English and a mix of other languages along with grunts, clicks and groans. While visiting my Brother-in-law living in Shreveport LA, we stopped off at his place of business. He was the manager (probably because he was from WI and could read and write and do math. There was a note taped to his office door. It was left there by one of the indigenous. While difficult to read, the nearest we could make out was that it said: (I won’t include the spelling errors) But what is life without whimsy? The unique and distinguishable trait of the language of those from WI that is reason to celebrate is that we speak and write the English language. We are unique in that. Now to those that have spent a lifetime chewing on words and making a few up along the way, you will think people from WI have an accent. What is greeting your ears that is so foreign to you is proper English.
In college had some buddies from Ireland. That sir is not the kings English. Between us hillbillies and those Irishman and some beer no one in the world could make out the contents of those conversations. Including us...
Give me his name of business so I can either slap him across the face while screaming "this is for your weird BIL Rancid!" or buy him a beer. Not sure which yet. Seriously.
Technically the only place in America where "proper English" is spoken is in the tidewater region of Virginia where the original Jamestown colony was established. I'm sure you already knew that though. Sent from my HTC One X using Tapatalk 2
I'm sure there are one or two other places besides WI where residents know how to speak proper English.
Based on what I have been able to determine, you’re a rather “slight” little guy. He would just drop you on your head. Besides he moved back to WI to raise his family a few years ago. He was one of the smart ones that got out. P.S. He would make sure you got home ok rather than just leaving you in a heap of your own fluids. We WI guys are good like that.
Uhmmmmm, you misunderstood. Hooker suggested he would strike my BIL and I only hoped to caution him against such folly as a “big ole” corn fed , WI boy would simply dispatch him but have the good manners to make sure Hooker got home safe so he could set about the road to recovery.
This I an interesting topic to me. I am southern, born in NC to an NC native but, have a northern mother. She was raised in Indi. Although from the south, I try to not speak as though I am most of the time. I have learned how to sue press the urge to use ain't (most of the time) but, it does naturally roll off my tongue on accident occasionally. However, I do not ever use phrases such as "I ain't got none" or "don't need none". These are normal phrases heard daily around here. It sounds ignorant and uneducated. More than likely, the people that use this foreign language, probably are just that. I do have a southern accent that I will probably never be able to shake but, it is not that difficult to pronounce words as they should be instead of calling a sink a "zink" and yes, I have heard it a few times. I honestly had no clue what they were talking about an had to ask then they had to physically show me what they were talking about!
