Getting used to the slang in the south eastern US was a process for me.
Fixing= intending; wanting to do something
"Coke"= Any soft drink.
"Bless Your Heart"= anywhere between "I am so sorry for you" and a polite form of "you're an abomination." I'm still trying to comprehend the scope of this phrase.
There's also the tendency to drop the consonant and the "to" in infinitive verbs.
Ex: "Gon'" is "going to". As in "I'm gon' drive this here truck up to Pigeon Forge."
EDIT: That reminds me, "here" often gets added superfluously directly before nouns.
There's tons more, but I can't think of them at the moment. Will post more later.
Last edited by gunnels; 04-11-2013 at 09:46 AM.
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