How to Speak Midwest Part Two
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Distance is either measured by time or landmarks. Bonus if the landmarks are things that used to be there but aren't now.
There’s a Beer Sign that hasn’t been a beer sign for probably 15 years at least that people around where I live still know what you mean when giving directions.
Same thing here in the Commiefornia Central Valley.
My Grandpa in South Carolina once told me to turn at the old something mansion that burned down 30 years back. 🤣🤣 And then he told me the story of how it burned down and ended with telling me to turn at the gas station across the road. 🤣🤣
classic -haha. Ya der - go down dat a way, till see the see the red barn that burned down - they be some old blocks around that area der - ya know, hang a right and go a few I don't know der, maybe 5- 8 fields or so and take a turn at the big oak treeeee der, that should get ya going right on path der. And I fully understand. Thank ya der sir, need some help der. Noooo - ok see ya now.
One that my late grandpa would say was to turn "where the big barn used to be". No road name, no new info, just the barn. Lol.
As a midwesterner....those compliments make our day. But if you say thank you without a backwards back story, someone might think you're high and mighty. Can't have that.😂
This is so true
Pay attention, this is important. He left out a really important part of the midwest goodbye in the words, but he did it with his actions. He looked down at his shoes immediately during saying "welp". Not too much before, not too much after. Just right. This is the way.
Midwest Good Bye also consistes of everyone in the house standing outside or in the door way waving good bye as you drive away with everyone waving at and back each other until you are all well out of sight.
Shows how Michigan I am. I thought time is how everyone describes how far away a place is. 🤣
My Grandma was the undefeated champion in our town of the Midwest Goodbye.
My brother in law is the Heir Apparent to that title.
My Mainer husband could give us midwesterners a run for our money. The amount of times I've had to break up a conversation should've made me rich. I love him but he can talk till you're blue in the face
Holy crap, I'm 51 and born and raised in Illinois. Absolutely EVERYTHING here is true. How are so many people so completely the same? 😂
Because this is our culture. Mix a bunch of Swedes, Germans, Italians and native Indians together, what else would you expect?
Southern Mo here!!!! Dont spot much differnce! 'Cept we dont actually "talk with hands" like so many Europeans do. Ost of our European wore off 300 yrs ago!!!
60 from Mount Vernon, IN (SW toe). 90% of this was right for me. I think some Southern may have crept across the Ohio River and diluted this just a little.
I didn't realize that I measured distances in time until watching this video
Big thing in Canada too
I don't know anyone who measures distance - in distance. It's just not a useful frame of reference. Something can be a long distance - but if the route from here to there is mostly highway, freeway or express way: it won't take even half as long as it would if it was street to street stop signs and only 30 mph. Saying the mileage doesn't provide you with useful information. However - if you know the route, or have a good idea of it, you can give someone a reasonable expectation of how long it will take to get there: which is vastly more useful to them. They may be in a hurry, or low on gas, and therefore - knowing how long they should expect the trip to take allows them to make some relevant decisions like doing that task now or some other time or if they should gas up before taking the trip, etc. Conversely - you tell someone something is 3 miles, they'd probably expect that to be a pretty short trip: but not if the best way to get there is through some super clogged road construction and awful traffic - as where telling them "Yeah, that'll probably take you a good 25 minutes due to road construction" is vastly more informative.
I thought that was how everyone measured it...
Midwesterners always act like they are special for doing this, when almost everyone (at least in the US) does this.
Same
Brilliance, Myles! Now you just need to explain "Supper Clubs" to the rest of the world! (That's a Wisconsin thing--not even midwest.). You get it.
I miss me a good supper club!!
"Bad weather brings us together" is more true than you think. Collectively bitching or applauding the weather brings a sense of 'us vs. them' every human craves but its all against nature, so no one's ever hurt!
I'm from Texas. We have our own version of the "Midwest Goodbye" and it can be equally as long 😂 And we start it almost the same way: "Well I reckon..." 😂😂😂
The Midwest is really no different then the south
Where I grew up in the Ozarks, "Well I reckon..." was just what you said about an hour or two before you got to saying, "whelp".
yeah from Kentucky and it's the same way throughout the south
@@parkerbreitenbach2767 yeah, except the weather.
Sounds about right. I'm a NC boy who's been living in the midwest for a few years now. Definitely some similarities.
I thought everybody communicated distance in driving time until I moved out of the Midwest. The look I received the first time I told someone, "That's about 6 1/2 hours away", was an eye opener. 😂 Around the same time someone told me a city was about 800 miles away and I was thinking, what the heck am I supposed to do with that trivia? 😂
Welp, gotta run! Watch out fer deer.
I've been told that in Chicago, despite it being in the Midwest, they have to give distances in miles because traffic varies too much to give reliable time estimates. Glad I don't have to worry about that.
That's a real issue in the Cleveland area, especially around Independence off of Brecksville Rd. I'm sure they're everywhere now since we humans tore down so much of their forest.
@@kynn23I'm in the Chicago area and I hear blocks or miles alot. Sometimes I'll hear time.
Any potholes or bridges out. Is the branch flooded???? No way to measure actual miles!
0:44 At the end of every holiday gettogether my grandfather would do the mid-west shuffle in the car, inch by inch down the driveway, while my grandmother yacked on and on about every little subject.
My dad learned not to put on his coat until my mother was actually out the door.
My Minnesota grandfather was adorable. He'd leave the room, put on his pajamas and bathrobe, reenter the room and wait for guests to leave.
As a 35 year long Midwestern resident,
Yeah, no yeah. Pretty much this.
I haven’t lived in MN for 45 years, but know of and have used these all my life. Probably the reason living in Florida people could tell I was FROM the Midwest.
Ope! I moved from Ohio to Alabama and it feels like an entirely different word sometimes.
Went from IN to Memphis, TN. Didnt notice the "ope" until I was in the grocery store and got looked at funny
WELP!! (Knee slap) oh, hey ya, how's your folks doing, tell 'em i says hello.
ya know speaking of the folks, they just got the new thing in with the house. really is a marvel to see
Oofta that sounds like a beauty. I hear it’s in a heavily wooded area. Watch for deers on the way out there.
@@grindinitout1761 It's more than just the deer, donchaknow? You gotta watch out for'em deer TICKS these days. Nasty little buggers - their as big as just a pencil-width!
Oh, speakin of deers, I tried a new marinade on my deer jerky this year, ya gotta try it I'll bring some over next time.
Oh yea? Our neighbors just brought over a pound of deer jerkey last week! You want some for the 40 minute ride home?
We do a Midwest good bye in the back woods of the north east too. Always starts with a “well, I better..” and it helps to have a chore to do or a meal to eat.
I can literally spend three hours doing nothing at my mom's house and it never fails as I'm walking out ready to leave she will remember something she needs me to do for her. Something I could have done the whole three hours I was there.
I can relate. And after that, when I was about to get in the car it would be "how about a sandwich before you go?". Enjoy those times. Before you know it they're only memories :)
Same here! 🙄
The chair in the dining room (or surface near the front door) that has a pile of stuff she wants to see if you wanted just as you go to leave.
I love it! I never realized we do defend the weather. ☺️ With rain, I typically say it will be good for the fruit this year, it will wash all the pollen off the plants, or "We sure needed this. Remember how dry it was last year?" We are actually a pretty nice and positive bunch of people!! ❤ For our weather in Michigan, most people of a certain age will remember the "green storm" in the early 80's. That sounds something like, "Yeah, this storm is bad, but nothing like the green storm." Which is followed by each person's account of exactly where they were during the green storm. 😂😂😂
...and the Midwest goodbye even happens over the phone!
Lol or the snow storm of '78 I hadn't been born yet but I feel like lived through it with all the stories I've heard 😂😂
Gotta get it right. It was the blizzard of '78. And I did live through it!
@@hoosierpioneer true true🤣🤣
@@hoosierpioneer Blizzard of '78. Trapped in a factory for three days because I let the boss convince me to have a guy take me to work on his snowmobile. Had to hitchhike home. Learned that lesson well.
@@hoosierpioneer I was born in March of that year. I will have to have Mom re-tell that story. It's not like my 9-month-old self would remember that event. But I do remember the ice storm that hit my area of IA pretty badly for three days in my 8th grade year. No power, so we were relying on our wood stove downstairs in the basement to heat our house. And crap-tons of blankets on our beds! 😅😅
Born and raised in Indiana and never heard Offda until I met my wife, born and raised in Wisconsin at the UP boarder.
It’s Uffda 😉 okey-dokey?
Think it’s an upper Midwest thing. From Nebraska I rarely heard it. Wisconsin, SD and Minnesota natives say it a lot
Oofda is actually a Minnesota thing.
@@wendypellett8343 It’s not exclusively a Minnesota thing, it’s a marker of Scandinavian heritage. It’s a Scandinavian thing that is used primarily in the Midwest but not exclusively, as it is used in Scandinavian communities in other states. And it’s UFF DA, yes the dictionary says oof da is an acceptable alternative, but the Wikipedia article is titled “Uff da”.
I’m from the most Norwegian town in Iowa with the first Norwegian college in the US. Also my step grandfather was 100% Norwegian. I’ve been saying “uff da” my whole life.
Manitoba Canada is alot like the Midwest eh. We defend the weather, do the goodbye rounds where when you want to leave someones place you have to go to each person individually say goodbye and have a 10 minute conversation while saying goodbye, now if its a big party you're going to have to make a 2nd round of goodbyes to the first half of people who you said goodbye to lol general rule of thumb if you see someone 30 minutes sfter you said goodbye and you're still saying goodbyes you have to say goodbye again as you get closer to the door lol.
And while you are making the rounds, someone will ask" you leavin? What's yer hurry?"
@@hoosierpioneer yes! 100% true
We throw in yet with jeet and it kind of blends into one work. "Jeetyet?"
100%
Oh ya…”jeet yet?! Yont to?!” Classic. 🍻
Caint visit without eatin sumpthin!!!
Born and raised in Illinois but haven't lived there in decades and thought my Midwest speak was gone but nope, still say Geez Louis and finagle. The Midwest goodbye takes so long because you end up saying goodbye to the same people multiple times.
FIB alert!
"Might as well hug everybody again on the way out!!!"
The way you guys drive gives my finger an erection! Greetings from Wisconsin!
The weather one got me in my roots.
@@Jaxson-kc8vk it's ok most of the midwest doesn't consider Wisc, Min, and MI to be in the midewest...
Y'know I'd like a description of our seasons. Like in Ohio we got early winter, winter, late winter, and road construction.
In Minnesota we have 9 months of winter and 3 months of poor sledding….
Same in Nebraska. We have winter, construction, and winter.
Sometimes Ice Season also likes to rare its ugly head.
I Iowa we have winter, almost construction, and construction.
In iowa we just had an early spring that felt like fall. Now we are in second winter. I think we just make them up as we go because the seasons and random, never ending combinations, and unpredictable.
@@wojtczak1984 "Second winter." Sounds like "second breakfast" only expanded into seasons. 😅😂
Don't forget about the "fronchroom". Or hanging lights on the "ruff" of your house. 🤣
Story. Two high school friends (from Bemidji) attended Dartmouth College (in Hanover, NH). They both took German. One was translating German into English (or rather Minnesotan) and spoke the "ruff" word, and was laughed at by the whole class. He had to ask what was wrong with his translation. The other friend later got called out for referring to the "ruts" of a tree.
😂 from IN… when we were in Oshkosh for an air show we found out you couldn’t buy beer after 9 in Winnebago County. The gas station attendant told us to go up towards Appleton 3 exits… you could have said 30 miles and we would have waited till morning. But I didn’t think about it until we got almost there.
I say the weather thing a lot, especially “It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity”
“Midwesterners stink at accepting compliments” dang and here I thought it was because I was insecure
My goodbye is “welp+ sigh+ Bout that time”
Born and raised in MN, what's crazy is I don't like living here, but I defend the weather without even realizing it, just as he said. I hate it all, but have said every single thing. 🤣🤣
Don't forget the polite head nod, and the slight raise of the hand when someone waves you to go first at a four-way stop.
Grew up in the Twin Cities and every time you talk to anyone still there…….the weather WILL BE part of the conversation GUARANTEED!
What are the four seasons in Minnesota? Winter, winter, winter, and road construction.
Am Iowan. Can confirm cedar rappids to cedar falls is about an hour and a bit.
same here
G'day. A Canadian here. And I wholeheartedly agree on your southern time, compass direction, and landmarks for navigation. Us Hicks have been using it since we crossed the Atlantic.
100% everyone needs to adopt minutes over miles
The Midwest goodbye is literally my dad getting ready to leave family events but we live on the west coast.
“There’s no such thing as bad weather, just inappropriate clothing” Alfred Wainwright
I'm from IA, and by all that is holy, I have never understood the "shorts with hoodie in the winter" thing. I mean, is Mother Nature a joke to my fellow Iowans??? 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
Thanks. I’ll be heading to Fargo next week from Idaho. This will help with the language barrier.
Love Idaho. Lived there the last 3 years of my Air Force hitch.
Holy crap, I feel this in my soul 😅
Geeze Louise has been part of my vocabulary since i could talk.
And it's "jeet yet?" Then an offer of some homemade eats.❤
And by "some homemade eats" we mean enough food to feed a platoon, encouraging them to take some home for later because "ya, we have plenty".
@xlerb2286 Ah, you must know my people.
As an albertan i can certainly relate everything including the accent and beer consumption
Speaking in minutes is a game changer.
Yes, I agree on the mileage vs the time. If you drive through Chicagoland Traffic like we do many times to get to Michigan (I'm a native Michigander) you can't say how many miles. We always say how much time and then say, "depending on the time of year". Construction around Chicagoland can be a nightmare and can easily add another hour to your trip. I mean Geez Louise the traffic can be a nightmare!
Regarding measuring distance in time, vs length, we do that in areas with a LOT of traffic, too. Even if it is only 10 miles away, we let the people know…it’s about 45 minutes away.
The JEET one got me. I was like, "wait a minute... is that real?" Rolled off the tongue far easier than I expected lmao
From Missouri..."jeet jet? Noju, Lesqueet"
Yuntoo?
Jeet?
You want too?
Same. lol
Compliments are the worst, I cannot except them
I’m from Minnesota and I do every single one of these without even knowing it’s only a midwest thing 😂
I'm from northern Indiana and proud of it ❤❤❤❤❤
Is different from southern Indiana, yes? Maybe less hillbilly?
Born and raised in Western NY and I use these phases all the time.
but, then again, I was adopted...
Welp, you just about nailed 'er with that video, bud! Lot's of Midwestern folks say and do that stuff. Have we discussed the mysterious origins of saying "warsh" instead of "wash" yet? I still haven't figured that one out! Welp, I better skeedaddle. Catch you next time!
Warter is what you warsh with.
I didn’t hear him say “you guys “. That’s my favorite!
This is this gentleman's way of expressing himself. This is not how all the mid west talks & expressive themselves.
We used to have the Air Force Code:
Huh? Oh.
Being from Minnesota when I went into the USAF I get this whole thing.
There was a book "How to speak Minnesotan"
I'm on a flight from Salt Lake City to Boise and this older couple sit in the seats next to me. They're probably early 70's.
The guy starts messing with the tray table and starts his in conversation with his wife by saying "Yah knoh, a guy could..."
Having just read that book and that being a saying in the book, I asked if they were from Minnesota.
"Yah! Howdja knoh?"
"We just flew in frum da Cities."
I asked if they were from Northwest Minnesota and he said "Yup. Teef River Falss. Howdja kno that?"
Just a guess I said.
I had all I could do to not burst out laughing.
I've lived my entire 47 years of life in Minneapolis and everything in this vid is completely true. I love it.
This is totally true!!! I have broken the midwest spell though..walk out the door, yell "I'm outta her" and run like hell...
Yanno the jeet is freakily accurate. Us midwesterners use these vids to become more self aware of what we really are.
As a proud Appalachian, when we say goodbye it's a formula of an extended word + a compliment + a promise. "Yeeaahhhh.... listen, I hate to part good company, but I gotta go. I promise to stop over next week though and we can have some tea then!"
I'm from south dakota struggling down here in Texas with these people who supposedly are nice ain't no one like us Midwest nice.
Agreed!!!❤
Especially if they think southern Kansas is Yankee territory!
I love using jeet, but my southern family members say “y’et yet?” Which somehow means “have you eaten yet?” And that blows my mind
im not from the mid west, but my mom was, all my friends thought i talked weird lol
As someone from Missouri we totally judge how far things are by minutes. Also if you come here be prepared to use both your AC and Heater in the same day.
Lol! Whenever it rains, I tell my girls not to be upset, because “a farmer could’ve really been praying for rain for his crops.”
For real! The drought in Iowa has really kicked our farmers in the wallet. This latest big round of storms we've had over the last week and a half gave us some really good rain. Unfortunately, tornadoes were part of the package. 😔😔 Greenfield, a town in Adair County, got hit hard w/an EF4.
This is spot on for northwest Missouri!
Funny, spot on. If you haven’t done one on giving directions by using miles, minutes and landmarks but no road or highway signs.
Yes! With part 2, the list is complete! Great job
I'm Midwestern and u couldn't of said it better
I grew up in NJ and we always gave directions in time because, traffic. I moved to Minnesota about 5 years ago and have seen most of these.
One last thing is Jeet is used in the south too just pronounced slightly different.
This video is gold. Keep it up!
Welp I spose i oughta start another video
Love these guys!~! keep going!
And if the weather fails as a topic of interest, you can always talk about the biting insects. There's nosee'ems in the spring, mosquitos in early summer and deer and horse flies mid into late summer. Ticks you can talk about all year round. Not because they're out there in the middle of winter but because you or a relative might have gotten the Lyme's Disease from one last season.
The mosquito is the unofficial Minnesota state bird. (Loon is official.)
This is so true. Love this guy
And you have to feed and send food home with everyone that stops by. The Amazon guy seems to stop by around dinner time everyday 😂
I grew up in Wisconsin. These are my people.
this is like listening to my dad, he always did the whole whelp, I suppose...followed by the classic, hit the road, if we were heading back home. The slap the leg and looking down...perfect. thanks, you made my day with that memory 😂
the midwest shuffle - nailed it!
Translate these in french and you can pretty much hold a conversation in Quebec, amazing similarities
'Jeet' is pretty universal, we do use that one here in the northeast. It's often followed by "wad'jeet?" which is asked to find out what you have eaten.
When those two don't work I like to follow it up with a Y'ungry?
I’m from Iowa and yeah, that damn wind is what makes the winters suck.😂 However, when I do my Midwestern goodbye, I don’t inch towards the door. I’m gone. Unless the person keeps talking and I’m to polite to walk away.😅
In Los Angeles we ALWAYS describe distances in time, not miles. Something we have in common!
The man did his homework, Dubuque to Cedar Falls is an hour and a half 😂
Hehe -- you could say the same thing about the distance from Marshalltown to Cedar Rapids or IA City. Tack on ten or more minutes for rush hour. 😅
I must be close enough to the midwest area, because although I'm Canadian, I resonate with most of what he was sayin'.
All of these hold true for Canadians as well - except we don’t use oofta. Every single other thing though.
I’m from South Dakota and all of this applies to my experience
I'm from Wisconsin....still so true! 😂
Ya, I wanted to watch the partial eclipse today, but y'know, we really needed the rain that brought those clouds.
Time vs. distance works even better for city travel. Sure, it might only be a few miles away...but it's going to take you 3 hours to get there during daylight when everyone else is on the road too.
I hate it when people measure distance by driving time, and I'm from Wisconsin. When I ask how far away a nearby town is and I hear "half an hour" I tell them, "great. because I'm going to walk."
I love the "ope" you snuck in at the end 🍻
welp *knee slaps* spose i better get going
Do you like the weather we're having?
Hey, now what are you bringing to the rummage sale?
Did you hear what Tom said about Sheryl the other day?
You said it at the end, I preciate it. Welp, I spose I better get goin now. Drive safe now, watch for deer.
Watching Fargo scene “oh you betcha yeah, yeah” rn and realized where u got it from dawg
I’m thinkin that Maine should be a honorary member of the Midwest because just about everything that he’s saying it true for the people of Maine coming from a Mainer myself
I know the distance by time driven is fairly universal. I’m from OR, and they certainly do that there too.
Everyone should adopt measuring distance in time. Like it takes me 15 mins to get to work but it’s 3 miles. It could take an hour to get to the store in LA but be 5 miles.
Let’s just let each other know how much time they need to allow for the drive
My mom is from Minnesota so I inherited allll of this. 😂
From pa, never knew we were the Midwest.. till now. 😂
In New England when it's raining we say, at least it's not snowing. Don't know anyone that tells distance in miles. I'd ask my parents how far it is to my aunt and uncle's house and they'd say, about an hour and a half.
In Northeast Wisconsin, instead of oofta, we would say “Cripes!”
Midwest goodbye is the same in germany 😂
Over heard my Panamanian wife say "Oofda" one day. Laughed for five minutes. She is also queen of the mid-west goodbye's, it's going take at least a half hour.
As a Canadian, I must say, I feel right at home!
OMG!!!! 🤣😂🤣😂🤣 That's us for sure.