Caroline Speaking Gullah and English

[Secure Da Bag]

but over time they were mad fun for playing the instrument;

Made fun of by who?

 

[Samori Toure]

West Tenn sound like Arkansas and St Louis ppl to me (at least Memphis).

A lot of people from St. Louis are actually originally from West Tennessee. St. Louis was one of the stops on the way to Chicago during the Great Migration. I still have cousins that live there.

Of course Arkansas had a lot of Tennessee people that moved there. It is right across the River.

 

[Samori Toure]

Made fun of by who?

It went from this:

To this:

 

[poppastoppa]

Can someone recommend any restaurants that are Geechee owned? I have a love of Charleston and want to go back!

I would like to get to know a few of them. I’ve only met Louisiana creoles but only seen Geechee and didn’t speak to one.

Only thing Geechee I personally know are the descendants of some of them who moved up to New York during the great migration and lost all their Geechee Gullah lingo (obvioulsy)

Bertha's Kitchen, Nana's, Buckshot's, Charlie Brown Seafood

 

[UberEatsDriver]

I’m half Creole, it’s still preserved.


Exactly, there are little nuances and distinctions where folks would differentiate between Gullah/Geeche and just being country. It also go the other way.

Oh ok cool that’s good to hear.

Bertha's Kitchen, Nana's, Buckshot's, Charlie Brown Seafood

Good looking out brother. Just wrote all that down!

 

[poppastoppa]

I can't still hear my great grandma, yelling at because me and my cousin knocked down her fence in Holly Hill, SC. "Dem chillun dey dun knock obuh we fence, yep dem chillin dem dey."

We and dem dey was like the go to. I used to laugh but now thinking back it was her language. I sound a little like them, but going to school they teach that out of you.

 

[poppastoppa]

Oh ok cool that’s good to hear.


Good looking out brother. Just wrote all that down!

Oh and Martha' Lou's Kitchen too

 

[Apollo Creed]

A lot of people from St. Louis are actually originally from West Tennessee. St. Louis was one of the stops on the way to Chicago during the Great Migration. I still have cousins that live there.

Of course Arkansas had a lot of Tennessee people that moved there. It is right across the River.

Yeah I know that, I’m more so speakig from the context of if I were to group someone lingustically, that would be a group.

 

[Samori Toure]

Yeah I know that, I’m more so speakig from the context of if I were to group someone lingustically, that would be a group.

Yeah. I would link Tennessee with North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky, Southern Indiana, Southern Illinois,Southern Ohio, Missouri and Arkansas. Like I wrote in another post though, some people in West Tennessee have a very thick accent like some of the folks have in the Southern portion of Mississippi. I don't know why that is, but I assume that there must have been some kind of migration from Southern Mississippi up to Memphis.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

It went from this:

To this:

Okay. So white people made fun of black people playing the banjo then and black folk fell for it? Is that what you're saying?

 

[im_sleep]

It went from this:

To this:

Minstrels did a number on the culture. More than slavery IMO.


Junkanoo/John Canoe/etc. had a similar fate in North Carolina except White appropriation didn’t last like it did with the Banjo.

 

[Samori Toure]

I can't still hear my great grandma, yelling at because me and my cousin knocked down her fence in Holly Hill, SC. "Dem chillun dey dun knock obuh we fence, yep dem chillin dem dey."

We and dem dey was like the go to. I used to laugh but now thinking back it was her language. I sound a little like them, but going to school they teach that out of you.

LOL. My grandmother and her sister would also call us chilluns. They called the young women in our family dem gals. My uncle didn't say gals he would say "guuls." They would say "dey wen ova dare." Instead of saying "mother dear" we would say "madea." They would call a sassy young lady a heifer. They were forevermore threatening to snatch somebody bald headed or snatch a knot in dey ass. Instead of saying "reach" they would say "wrench." DL Hughley made a joke about going to see his grandmother and she would say the same shyt.

That shyt was hilarious. It would take me a whole summer to figure out what the Hell they were saying, but by then I had gotten my ass beat so many times for not minding them; that I just gave up.

 

[BillBanneker]

I really can't tell the difference between East, Middle and West Tennessee dialect. They all sound the same to me, but I have noticed that some people in West Tennessee can sound real deep country like South Mississippi.

Yeah, that's def right IMOI'm from east tn and can tell a difference with west tn/memphis, def more a deep south drawl, which I would think is the result of regional migration (black belt).

Memphis brehs would always clown saying we (knoxville) sounded white.

 

[Samori Toure]

Okay. So white people made fun of black people playing the banjo then and black folk fell for it? Is that what you're saying?

Yes. The minstrel shows. Same thing with watermelon and chicken and stuff like that.

After putting down the banjo, which is where our country music and bluegrass comes from; black performers picked up the guitar which is the genesis for the American version of the blues, which gave rise to rock and roll. So four genres of music were created by Black people.

 

[BillBanneker]

My cousin dated a girl from one of the georgia coast islands and was gullah, didn't realize the culture was all along from nc to fl technically (she said most folks were in SC though).

Hearing her talk for the first time was still "bruh brought a barbados girl home!"