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It's kinda funny on a personal level.

My wife is a damn yankee. Moved from up there in forn parts down here to the real america, where we speak proper english.

Anyway, she's been down here a little over ten years. She still runs into situations where she has to ask me "what did he say?" when we go to a family getogether. Like, my cousin might say something that means, "yeah, I was in the woods hunting and saw a bear", but it comes out "I'uz downta the woods ahuntin, and saw a bar". She hears something more like "izadunta tha woods ahntin n sawabar". So, she knows he was in the woods, and was doing something and saw something. But she has no idea what he was doing, or what he saw.

Meanwhile, she's being asked to slow down and relax because everything she says is clipped and a little too fast to keep up with by my more rural family.

Watching her and my great uncle talk is fucking hilarious because there's just this string of gibberish as far as they're both concerned, so they just laugh and essentially say they have no idea what was just said, but that's okay.

Then again, I barely understand my great uncle some days. He's from here in the Appalachians originally, but moved to Alabama to run the farm his wife's family has. As an example of how he sounds, when there's dogs that need to be run off, he has this thing he yells.

It sounds like gehownupouttahyuh. Which is broken down into geh own up outta hyuh, which translates to get on up outta here. But it's one long fucking word for him. Which is how he always talks. It's normally just slower than his dog shooing. If he wants you to know he's going shopping, he says something akin to "ahmagwondownt'thestow" no breaks between words unless it's where a t is a stop, but it's draaawwwwled every vowel is stretched like taffy until it sticks to everything