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Your Linguistic Profile:
50% Dixie
50% General American English
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern
0% Yankee
What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
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Also, this:
You Know You're From Louisiana When...
The crawdad mounds in your front yard have over taken the grass.
You greet people with "Howzyamomma'an'dem?" and hear back "Dey fine!"
Every so often, you have waterfront property.
When giving directions you use words like "uptown," "downtown," "backatown," "riverside," "lakeside," "other side of the bayou" or "other side of the levee."
When you refer to a geographical location "way up North," you are referring to places like Shreveport, Little Rock or Memphis, "where it gets real cold."
You've ever had Community Coffee. ?
You can pronounce Tchoupitoulas but can't spell it. (I would bold this...but I can spell 'em, too. xD)
You don't worry when you see ships riding higher in the river than the top of your house.
You judge a po-boy by the number of napkins used.
The waitress at your local sandwich shop tells you a fried oyster po-boy "dressed" is healthier than a Caesar salad.
You can eat Popeye's, Haydel's and Zapp's for lunch and wash it down with Barq's and several Abitas, without losing it all on your stoop.
The four seasons in your year are: crawfish, shrimp, crab, and King Cake.
You "wrench" your hands in the sink with an onion bar to get the crawfish smell off.
You don't learn until high school that Mardi Gras is not a national holiday. (We always got three days off school for it, what was I supposed to think? xD But we got out of school for the opening day of hunting season, too, so...)
You believe that purple, green and gold look good together.
Your last name isn't pronounced the way it's spelled. (my maiden name, anyway xP)
You know what a nutria rat is but you still pick it to represent your baseball team. (xD)
You have spent a summer afternoon on the Lake Pontchartrain seawall catching blue crabs. (^____^)
You describe a color as "K & B Purple."
You like your rice and politics dirty.
You pronounce the largest city in the state as "Nawlins." (Because it is NOT 'New Orr-LEEEENS' >_<)
You know those big roaches can fly, but you're able to sleep at night anyway. (I HATE HATE HATE HATE those things! >_<)
You assume everyone has mosquito swarms in their backyard.
You realize the rainforest is less humid than Louisiana. (Heh. People in West Texas complain when we get 80% humidity. Mark and I don't even feel that. Seriously, it gets up to 110% in LA at least.)
You discover that you can get a sunburn through your car window.
When out of town, you stop and ask someone where there is a drive-through Daiquiri place, and they look at you like you have three heads.
You have flood insurance.
Your burial plot is six feet over rather than six feet under.
You consider a Bloody Mary a light breakfast.
You push little old ladies out of the way to catch Mardi Gras beads.
Your first sentence was "Throw me something mistah" and your first drink was from a go-cup.
You worry about a deceased family member returning in spring floods.
You reply to anything and everything about life here with "Only in Nahlins".
You have a monogrammed go-cup.
You shake out your shoes before putting them on.
Your sunglasses fog up when you step outside.
No matter where else you go in the world, you are always disappointed in the food. (Always always always ALWAYS! >_<)
You get up in the morning and start cooking a pot of rice before you give any thought to what you'll fix for dinner.
When it starts to rain, you cover your beer instead of your head.
You call tomato sauce "red gravy."
You eat sno-balls instead of throwing them.
Your house payment is less than your air conditioning bill.
Your grandparents are called "Maw Maw" and "Paw Paw."
You fall asleep to the soothing sounds of four box fans.
You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from Louisiana.
Some are completely true and some are just huge exaggerations, but they made me chuckle. ^^ I took the liberty of bolding the ones that especially apply to me. :D