Know where Bogalusa is? I just south of there in Bush for about eleven years and worked in Covington. My best friend moved from Covington to Waveland, MS a few years ago.
I try not to let my accent get over too much but when I am teaching I tend to fall into the pithy similes (jumping like a frog in a hot skillet, etc) It's Grandpa's fault, I swear.
Yep, that's way down there in sho-nuf coon-ass territory! (Maybe you can tell me -- how offensive a term is that? I've never really known how people feel about it, just heard it a lot.)
LOL... it's quite popular with Cajuns. I had a Coon Ass sticker on my old Dodge ;-)
It's not really seen, as far as I can tell, as derogatory, though I'm sure it was originally meant to be. It's more... affectionate? Coonie is another term they use.
I know in some places in the South Coon or Coonie is a term for blacks, but not in South LA (G)
Re: RC Cola
Date: 2002-05-21 01:32 pm (UTC)I try not to let my accent get over too much but when I am teaching I tend to fall into the pithy similes (jumping like a frog in a hot skillet, etc) It's Grandpa's fault, I swear.
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Re: RC Cola
Date: 2002-05-21 06:37 pm (UTC)Yep, that's way down there in sho-nuf coon-ass territory! (Maybe you can tell me -- how offensive a term is that? I've never really known how people feel about it, just heard it a lot.)
Re: RC Cola
Date: 2002-05-21 07:03 pm (UTC)It's not really seen, as far as I can tell, as derogatory, though I'm sure it was originally meant to be. It's more... affectionate? Coonie is another term they use.
I know in some places in the South Coon or Coonie is a term for blacks, but not in South LA (G)