Would you visit North, South Carolina?

Oh yeah,
OBX is the best! …and I’m not usually a beach person.

Rob

 

I have no idea what OBX is and I have only skirted around the two states. For beaches, I like freshwater and pure sand, which means I enjoy Western Michigan, around Holland and Grand Haven all the way up the coast to Traverse City.
I could enjoy the beauty of the Appalachians, but I honestly cannot understand the dialect, at least of the east Tennessee hill country folk. Sat at a local cafe and just had to point to the menu and ask my buddy what the waitress just asked. I couldn't understand one syllable out of her mouth. I felt bad not catching the dialect. I figure it would have come to me if I stayed in the region for a few months, but I was only there for the weekend. Stuck with chain restaurants after that.

 

Anyplace away from snow and cold is all right by me

 

OBX = the Outer Banks, NC (Duck, Kitty Hawk, Nags Head, etc)
Clean beaches, not too crowded)

I grew up with friends who were from the south and fall into the accent within a day or two of visiting.
I later moved to the Chicago area in high school. I visited Vanderbilt University (Nashville) with a few friends and we got lost. When asking directions I was the translator. (Gosh, that was 50 years ago!)

Rob

 

I got arthritis so I will chance it… cold during NE winter months creates both pain and complications for me.

 

Yea. I like the outer banks too

 

Mine is disabling… I can’t use my hands. Today, well with this exceptional weather I was able to get some use outa them, praise God!

Syracuse was a territory for me when I worked as a field rep as was all of NYS. I always packed a snow shovel when I went up there.

 

Before I knew you. Heck I lived up there at a Ramada Inn and went to the local Wegmans for dinner. I would have been glad for some company back then.

 

One of our Pastors/Elders is a refugee from California, so he talks real funny. Early in his ministry here a Deacon took the Elder out for visitation amongst the community.

The father of the family our Elder was visiting kept saying to the Elder "I'm looking fard be retard soon". The Elder couldn't understand a word of our dialect and thought the man was saying "I'll be a retard soon". Our Deacon was laughing like crazy. Once the Deacon caught his breath he told the Elder "He's telling you that he's looking forward to being retired".

And no, our Pastor has not lived that down yet hahaha.

 

To your pastor's credit, he was listening to low English, which is a different version of high English. (If you know Mennonites and low vs high German, you'll understand my reference) He simply didn't know the language.

 

I have a rudimentary knowledge that the Mennonites have a particular kind of German in their Bible version and that it's not entirely intelligible to modern Germans. That's my limited knowledge on the subject haha.

In NC we've got a bunch of micro-accents that are disappearing as we get invaded. Here's another interesting one:


I ain't been to the OBX but one time, and we went to Hatteras, so I've not heard this one in person.

 

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