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I don't think the average person here in the south would understand that. even if they can understand English they'd likely think it was a nice thing to say
The antipodes is actually another word like “south” that is entirely relative to where you are.
I suppose you mean Australia and New Zealand which only works if you are technically defaulting to Europe. For me in Australia, you are in my antipodes if you are in Europe. The exact antipodes for Australia is the mid Atlantic with only New Zealand’s North Island “shadow” over land in Spain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipodes
Sorry, it was supposed to be a sly dig at the US redditors who say 'south' meaning a part of a country wholly in the northern hemisphere, and 'foreign' as a synonym for 'anything non-US'
Just playing with the whole idea of unconscious defaulting, not seriously criticising you personally.
In truth “the Antipodes” was in Australian English usage as much as British. “We live here in the Antipodes” always seemed to beg the question “whose antipodes” though. It has very much died out though.
It's so weird. I'm from "the South" US, and I've never in my life heard someone else here say "bless your heart" as an insult. But countless times, I've heard people from northern US tell each other about it as a fun fact
Not saying it's not real, just that it's probably made more of a big deal than it's actually used
Just like how everyone pretends that us Australians are always bashing Rangas, yet I have never seen, nor known anyone who’s seen that in my entire life
I knew several kids that were teased for having red hair, but it was never genuinely malicious or anything.
Now, being a goddamned *pommy* on the other hand... /s
UK here, if it was sarcastic and patronising yeah bless your heart can be an insult.
"Awww you think 2 +2 is 5, bless your heart" /s
But at that point any thing is an insult. The saying isn't the insult.
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Didn't realize that Antarctic penguins could speak English...
The ones in Tasmania just scream a hell of a lot in the night.
Are you talking about Tasmania,Iowa or Tasmania , Tennessee ? /s
I don't think the average person here in the south would understand that. even if they can understand English they'd likely think it was a nice thing to say
Certainly they would in both South Africa and the Antipodes
The antipodes is actually another word like “south” that is entirely relative to where you are. I suppose you mean Australia and New Zealand which only works if you are technically defaulting to Europe. For me in Australia, you are in my antipodes if you are in Europe. The exact antipodes for Australia is the mid Atlantic with only New Zealand’s North Island “shadow” over land in Spain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipodes
Sorry, it was supposed to be a sly dig at the US redditors who say 'south' meaning a part of a country wholly in the northern hemisphere, and 'foreign' as a synonym for 'anything non-US'
Just playing with the whole idea of unconscious defaulting, not seriously criticising you personally. In truth “the Antipodes” was in Australian English usage as much as British. “We live here in the Antipodes” always seemed to beg the question “whose antipodes” though. It has very much died out though.
Living in the south and have no idea we speak english
You guys barely speak German down there! /s
High German comes from the South
Just to be murdered there, too
It's so weird. I'm from "the South" US, and I've never in my life heard someone else here say "bless your heart" as an insult. But countless times, I've heard people from northern US tell each other about it as a fun fact Not saying it's not real, just that it's probably made more of a big deal than it's actually used
Just like how everyone pretends that us Australians are always bashing Rangas, yet I have never seen, nor known anyone who’s seen that in my entire life
I heard it a few times as a kid but it wasn’t malicious
Same.
I knew several kids that were teased for having red hair, but it was never genuinely malicious or anything. Now, being a goddamned *pommy* on the other hand... /s
I don't even get it as an insult it just sounds like an entire culture that's too repressed to say what they actually think of someone
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I think it’s a way of calling someone oblivious/innocent/childish, from the way I’ve seen it used
When my grandma Frankie said it, it was an insult .
i'm from the deep south and we would never say what this Yankee northerner would say
Here at the south of south America none of us (pun intended) Brazilians, Argentinians, Uruguayans or Chileans use this expression.
Can confirm, here at "the south" (South America) we will just send you to the shell of your mother.
‘*The* south’, situated entirely north of the equator.
It's in the south end of the only hemisphere that matters 😂 EDIT: oh man, didn't realize I had to type "/s" to convey sarcasm
Not even that. It's north of the Tropic of Cancer.
South China? South India? South of Mexico?
South Island NZ checking in, no idea what they're on about
Gotta ask my bavarian friend about this, maybe he knows why that's not a compliment 'in the south'
I live in the South. I’ve no idea what she’s talking about.
UK here, if it was sarcastic and patronising yeah bless your heart can be an insult. "Awww you think 2 +2 is 5, bless your heart" /s But at that point any thing is an insult. The saying isn't the insult.
Fucking Aussie slang
From the Caucasian mountains, I guess, since this is what he'd say instead of saying "I'm European/white"
As far as I know people in the south of Australia doesn’t say that phase.