- Honey, baby, etc.
- Even young people have the accent. This surprised me because I thought that
regional accents were slowly melting away thanks to mass media. In Korea, kids
may have picked up a few regionalisms from family, but for the most part they
spoke like the video game streamers they watched on YouTube. In Tennessee, you
can hear an accent even in young toddlers.
- Frequency of conversations with strangers is somewhat higher than on the
coasts, but more noticeable is the length and depth of the conversations. I
spoke for five minutes with a guy in the elevator and we kept having to stick
our arms in the door to reopen it. We finally stopped talking when the
elevator starting beeping at us and forced the door closed. Didn’t even find
out his name.
- Haven’t heard any cool aphorisms like “it’s all grist for the mill” yet, but
my ears are open.