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Posted: Thu May 1st, 2008 04:18 am |
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Today I was listening to catholic radio while in the car, and a man was speaking about the radiothon they're having. He had the most country, southern drawl I've ever heard in catholicland. When I first attended RCIA they made polite comments about my southern drawl. But I have found that most catholics speak "northern" or "midwest" but you never hear a good ole boy at mass! Except for Deacon Bill on EWTN (and his drawl isn't that profound) there just aren't many. Do you think the "down home country southern" culture is too at odds with the catholic culture for evangelization to take root? Could simple culture stand in the way of reasonable thinking?
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Posted: Thu May 1st, 2008 03:10 pm |
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You haven't heard Mike Cumbie teach yet, have you? That good ol' boy from Alabama has a drawl you can pour over hot cakes! And he is on FIRE with the love of Jesus! Great guy!
When I go to Mass in other parts of the country, I enjoy hearing familiar Mass prayers said with a drawl or a twang or right through the nose. It's endearing and universal.
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Posted: Thu May 1st, 2008 03:51 pm |
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 Why, I thought both of you ladies were talking about THAT Bubba, the guy who graduated from a "catholic college" on the Potomac River, and eventually took a job just a few blocks down the road in the same city.
Last time I heard he's kept in his wife's DAWG House but let out when it's felt necessary to raise hell and havoc!
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Posted: Thu May 1st, 2008 07:00 pm |
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I forgot about Mike Cumbie! I did hear him once on EWTN, and he was funny and yet he was a powerful speaker. He is very much like some of the evangelical preachers who are on TV around the clock here. I would love to hear them expound on the sacraments! Ya'll come back to mass next week, ya hear?!
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Posted: Fri May 2nd, 2008 12:40 am |
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Oh man; I saw this topic and thought there's no way they could know that about me!
Haha. From the time that I was a wee-little one just starting to play tee-ball with the boys, people called me "Lil' Bubba" 'cause I was just such a cute one who out played the boys. Well, growing older I lost the 'lil' part and Bubba has been a nickname that has stuck up until my entrance into college.
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Posted: Fri May 2nd, 2008 01:15 am |
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Well now I feel better, knowing there's a Bubba with us! Now fess up, when you're on the field, is there some chewin and spittin and scratchin going on? Who would have ever thought our Kayla was known as Bubba.
BTW, I think I saw a promo on EWTN for the Catholicism on Campus program you were part of. Do you know any more about it? God bless
Also BTW, my dh was called Bubba by his family when he was growing up. But I don't think he was as cute as Kayla!  Last edited on Fri May 2nd, 2008 01:18 am by Credo Catholic
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Posted: Fri May 2nd, 2008 05:31 am |
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I've got more of an intown accent, from what I've been told. And that means, of course, a more citified Atlanta accent (think Lewis Grizzard, or any make character actor on Designing Women).
But in my church, in Snellville, GA, I am only one of a few southern accents. It seems that most of New York, half of Minnesota, and a quarter of Mexico comes to our church on Sundays.
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Posted: Fri May 2nd, 2008 12:03 pm |
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Posted: Fri May 2nd, 2008 01:02 pm |
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I love the southern drawl. We have a priest up here, well-- he's actually Vice Rector at the seminary, but he celebrates Mass for us sometimes-- and he has the southern drawl. I absolutely love it!
We have a few Boston folks that talk funny. But I've also noticed that there is a type of Baltimore accent as well, which I have incidently been picking up!
We don't have accents back west, lol.
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Posted: Fri May 2nd, 2008 04:09 pm |
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JustThis is a fun quiz my friend sent me. It's the Yankee/Rebel test. It's supposed to tell you when you're from based on your speech. Enjoy!
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http://www.alphadictionary.com/articles/yankeetest.html
Just as an aside--I was born and raised in the south and I scored a perfect Yankee on the test. My husband, the Hoosier, scored quite high as a Rebel on the test!
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Posted: Fri May 2nd, 2008 06:07 pm |
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there was a test in Yankee magazine years ago which would locate which locality of New England you were from with some things from elsewhere in the US. very interesting. Example: do you call a certain piece of playground equipment a seesaw, teetertotter, teeterboard, etc.
other example: is it a bucket or a pail?
YOU TALK FUNNY!!!
WELL, YOU TIPE PHUNNY!!!!
Am I the only person on this forum who can tell the difference in accents between the 4 guys on Ask This Old House? You can locate them to within about 20 miles by their accent. I forget their names though so don't ask.
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Posted: Fri May 2nd, 2008 06:18 pm |
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Credo Catholic wrote: Could simple culture stand in the way of reasonable thinking?
LOL I'm completely unapologetic in my southern drawal.  My priest has a very gentlemanly southern drawal, but I really haven't noticed anyone else with one--plenty of other accents, though! My husband and I moved across the country to Columbia, South Carolina, and we've heard and seen cultures from all over the world in our new parish. But even in my old parish in Arkansas, a strong southern accent was missing--it was as if the greater percentage of the Catholic population were outsiders at one point who had moved in as a group and could retain their total lack of accent. We also had accents from northerners and from Mexicans, but there didn't seem to be a representative group of people that reflected the roots of our town, whose parents had lived there and perhaps whose family history went back a few generations. The only other people were those who had converted with me from my RCIA class--so that makes at least three of us!
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Posted: Fri May 2nd, 2008 06:34 pm |
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What I can't figure out is why, when I take my nasal flat Chicago accent to the South or West, I end up talking like them in a matter of days. Why doesn't the reverse occur?
(Side observation: Bishop Dolan, a lovely man, who pops up on EWTN and Catholic radio regularly, has such a strong St. Louis accent that when he blesses the audience it sounds like he's saying "The Lard be with you.")
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Posted: Fri May 2nd, 2008 06:43 pm |
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Therese Z wrote:
What I can't figure out is why, when I take my nasal flat Chicago accent to the South or West, I end up talking like them in a matter of days. Why doesn't the reverse occur?
(Side observation: Bishop Dolan, a lovely man, who pops up on EWTN and Catholic radio regularly, has such a strong St. Louis accent that when he blesses the audience it sounds like he's saying "The Lard be with you.")
 Well, you know those Southerners use lots of lard. It can't help but be absorbed into their speech. 
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Posted: Fri May 2nd, 2008 08:13 pm |
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May there be many more southern drawls in Catholic circles! I love it! It's an interesting observation that there are not. I never thought of that.
I just heard a Catholic bluegrass-type musician from Kentucky at a conference a few weeks ago. He certainly had an accent (to my Michigan ears).
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Posted: Fri May 2nd, 2008 08:26 pm |
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I came out 38% Dixie on the test linked above. I found it very interesting that so many of the answers included one that was "Great Lakes Region" or "Michigan." I didn't know we were so distinctive! I think I have a lot of influences, from inner-city Detroit lingo to one grandfather born in Alabama and my other grandparents and most of my relatives from Canada. I hear myself a little in Barack Obama and how he pronounces the long A (tending towards the long E sound). I notice that in Michigan a lot.
Has anyone ever noticed, like I have, that folks from the east coast (esp. NY and Boston) talk through their nose and pronounce their n's as if they have a cold (towards a "d" sound)? I used to think they must have chronic allergies or something  , and then one day it occurred to me that they were actually purposely talking that way, as a dialect.
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Posted: Fri May 2nd, 2008 09:26 pm |
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Therese Z wrote:
What I can't figure out is why, when I take my nasal flat Chicago accent to the South or West, I end up talking like them in a matter of days. Why doesn't the reverse occur?
(Side observation: Bishop Dolan, a lovely man, who pops up on EWTN and Catholic radio regularly, has such a strong St. Louis accent that when he blesses the audience it sounds like he's saying "The Lard be with you.")
I really don't think you can take the bubba out of a man, but you can certainly put a bubba into a person.
I'm from Georgia....If I went to live in New Jersey, even long term, I could never see myself saying "Hey Joey ovah dere!" when calling out to , well, some guy name Joey.
But, I think secretly, everybody from every part of the country could see themselves saying "Hi ya'll!"
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Posted: Mon May 5th, 2008 04:07 am |
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beachmoss wrote: Just as an aside--I was born and raised in the south and I scored a perfect Yankee on the test. My husband, the Hoosier, scored quite high as a Rebel on the test!
79% Dixie here. I might note that this test is primarily based on word usage, not accent, so there's a significant difference. For example, I know quite well what a sub and a hoagie are, but the one that comes closest to my 'native pronounciation' is 'po boy'. That pretty much nails me down to the New Orleans region.
BTW, 'po boy' is technicall incorrect; the proper term is 'poor boy' as it was originally a sandwich created during the depression for those who could not afford a sandwich with meat. Other varieties are served today, but the original sandwiches were served on a loaf of French bread with a little roast beef and a whole lot of gravy. Even today, they are called 'gravy sandwiches' in New Orleans' Ninth Ward. And of course, if you want it with lettuce and tomatoes, you order it 'dressed'.
A roast beef poor boy is different from a sub or a hoagie in that the gravy will drip down your arms all the way to your elbows. If it doesn't, it's not a poor boy.
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wELL I SCORED :20% Dixie. Wow! You are a Duke of Yankeedom! Since I am from Quebec I am not sure how it scored me!
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That was fun! I scored 84% Dixie. Don't you people know what "rolling"  is?
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Marshall sits here, a eatin' his Moonpie an' sippin' his RC Cola fo' breakfust. "Hmmm, these here critters all sho do tawlk funny!", he thinks to hisself in his Southern drawl!  In the background, the radio plays, "OOOOH down in th' holler, sittin' on a lawg, finger on th' trigger 'n' eye on a hawg, honey let me be yo' sawlty dawg.....!" Attachment: RCNMOONPIE.jpg (Downloaded 56 times) Last edited on Mon May 5th, 2008 02:10 pm by EMarshallBuckles
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And Therese sits here, alternating her fifth dark roast Starbucks, black, and fast drags on a cigarette, as she relives this morning's fifteen rapid lane changes on a residential street, beeping and scowling at little old ladies in little old Buicks. "Fuhgeddaboudit," she snarls. "I'll go overrrrrrr by my cuzzin Aaaaaanthinies' house and eat some real pizza! If I talk fastanuff, nobody'll unnerstan' me!"
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Credo Catholic wrote: Is the catholic church big enough for Marshall and ThereseZ?!!
Absolutely!
That's my original pondering that I'm brought back to, as I spread mayo on bread for my banana sandwich (is that a southern food)?
If you fried it, it's the "Graceland Special"!
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rbo4u2 wrote: Well, you know those Southerners use lots of lard. It can't help but be absorbed into their speech.
Rich
Well yeah, Isn't lard one of the basic food groups? My cardiologist is convinced that I belive that ! 
Our Pastor recruits parishoners whose native tongue is other than English for the first readings on Pntecost. I asked him if he needed me since I speak Southern which is in short supply in our parish. He laughed but declined my offer.
In spite of my Alabama nativity, my accent is not as noticible as my dw who has one of those double names. She says it is because my mother was a Yankee.
An Old Bubba,
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Credo Catholic wrote: Is the catholic church big enough for Marshall and ThereseZ?!! That's my original pondering that I'm brought back to, as I spread mayo on bread for my banana sandwich (is that a southern food)?
Aw, see, yuh gotta put peanut butter on that thar banana sangwich an' fry it up real good! Warsh it down with |
