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re: Why do coonasses refer to shorts as "short pants" ?

Posted on 12/14/16 at 12:02 pm to
Posted by OneMoreTime
Florida Gulf Coast Fan
Member since Dec 2008
61837 posts
Posted on 12/14/16 at 12:02 pm to
quote:



Ever here a Cajun call a garden hose a "hose pipe"?
my wife makes fun of me every time i call it a hose pipe.
Posted by TeddyPadillac
Member since Dec 2010
26018 posts
Posted on 12/14/16 at 12:03 pm to
b/c momma cut our pants once they got too short, and turned them into short pants. Momma ain't wasting a perfectly good pair of pants simply b/c the boy grew 3 inches over the summer but his waist is the same size.
Posted by meauxjeaux2
watson
Member since Oct 2007
60283 posts
Posted on 12/14/16 at 12:04 pm to
Posted by S
RIP Wayde
Member since Jan 2007
156214 posts
Posted on 12/14/16 at 12:06 pm to
bily mais-la big town city slider is tGOAT

"pass you a lil rag comme ca, get rid uh dat cheap grind meat taste."
Posted by Y.A. Tittle
Member since Sep 2003
101969 posts
Posted on 12/14/16 at 12:08 pm to
quote:

but i've been hearing people say short pants for years and i always thought it was hilarious.



Me too. That's part of why those vids are so hysterical. There's really NOTHING that's not real in them.
Posted by S
RIP Wayde
Member since Jan 2007
156214 posts
Posted on 12/14/16 at 12:09 pm to
Totally

The billy mays and t-vince parodies are great.
Posted by OysterPoBoy
City of St. George
Member since Jul 2013
35721 posts
Posted on 12/14/16 at 12:21 pm to
I've always said britches.
Posted by btnetigers
South Louisiana
Member since Aug 2015
2271 posts
Posted on 12/14/16 at 12:22 pm to
'Cause dere shawter dan dem long pants baw.
Posted by Cold Cous Cous
Bucktown, La.
Member since Oct 2003
15054 posts
Posted on 12/14/16 at 12:27 pm to
"short pants" is the original term for shorts in regular English usage. It was just shortened over the years, and I guess the new version never caught on in La.
Posted by LSUfanNkaty
LC, Louisiana
Member since Jan 2015
11185 posts
Posted on 12/14/16 at 12:36 pm to
quote:

b/c momma cut our pants once they got too short, and turned them into short pants. Momma ain't wasting a perfectly good pair of pants simply b/c the boy grew 3 inches over the summer but his waist is the same size.



There is your answer
Posted by rantfan
new iberia la
Member since Nov 2012
14110 posts
Posted on 12/14/16 at 12:42 pm to
Shorts= short sleeve pants

Pants= long sleeve pants
Posted by BlackAdam
Member since Jan 2016
6482 posts
Posted on 12/14/16 at 12:49 pm to
To make dumbasses ask stupid questions.
Posted by Martini
Near Athens
Member since Mar 2005
48886 posts
Posted on 12/14/16 at 12:49 pm to
Draws I have always said drawers.

I say hose pipe, icebox, fixin, reckon so and I tump things over.

I don't get down and make groceries though. But I might go to the grocery directly as in later.

And I'm not Cajun.
Posted by BlackAdam
Member since Jan 2016
6482 posts
Posted on 12/14/16 at 12:52 pm to
The real question is why do bait shacks down the bayou sell "mullets, shrimps, crab?"

My mom explained the linguistics to me once, but I forgot, and she has since died.
Posted by Topwater Trout
Red Stick
Member since Oct 2010
67601 posts
Posted on 12/14/16 at 12:54 pm to
quote:

long sleeve pants



so they are called sleeves?
Posted by Centinel
Idaho
Member since Sep 2016
43478 posts
Posted on 12/14/16 at 12:54 pm to
quote:

Ever here a Cajun call a garden hose a "hose pipe"?


To be fair, I grew up in north alabama and heard the term "hose pipe" quite a bit.
Posted by Honky Lips
Member since Dec 2015
2828 posts
Posted on 12/14/16 at 1:09 pm to
its simple actually. back in the day no man on the bayou wore shorts. ever. it could be 110 degrees outside and they were wearing long pants. i guess when shorts made their introduction, probably in the 60's, the elders didnt grasp the concept.

my grandfather (from boudreaux canal) never wore a pair of 'shorts' in his life. not kidding.
Posted by CHEDBALLZ
South Central LA
Member since Dec 2009
22006 posts
Posted on 12/14/16 at 1:11 pm to
shite I don't know how come they say that. All I know is when me and old paw paw went to town we always made a pass by Nonc MaMan to talk at him and Ta-Taunt. My old pawpaw he always made fun of Ta-Taunt because she had her draws hanging on the clothes line. One time he gave me a dollar to go wet down all of Ta-Taunts draws with the hose pipe and save them in the deep freeze on top the ice box to make them stiff.
Posted by tigerfoot
Alexandria
Member since Sep 2006
56690 posts
Posted on 12/14/16 at 1:21 pm to
No shite, b they should call em short britches like the rest of us.
Posted by DownshiftAndFloorIt
Here
Member since Jan 2011
66763 posts
Posted on 12/14/16 at 1:23 pm to
I don't give a shite me
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