Southern lingo word lesson for the day

• ZWICK 4 PREZ

  

  This may help ease some confusion if you're ever talking with a southerner...
  
  Mash = press
  Smash = smash
  
  I was training a guy from Tyger River SC on how to operate an HMI on a new line we're developing and I walk him through the steps and he seems to grasp it fairly well.. So he takes over and steps in and says "So I mash the control power button first... " and I tell him no you don't have to, the touch screen is pretty sensitive. He looks at me confused and presses the button and it turns the control equipment on, then says "then I mash the conveyor start button.." and I said "ya just press it gently" and he says "ya, I didn't say I was gonna smash the button, I said I was gonna mash it". I asked him what the difference was and he said mashing it was just touching it and smashing it meant flattening it .... Not the definition I've ever heard of mash.. but.. oh well.
  
  Mash = press in the south.
• snyds113

  "Honey,can you please mash the coffee pot button when you go in the kitchen"There is no way I could say that.
• krambman

  

  So does that mean that in the south that mashed potatoes are what we called baked potatoes and smashed potatoes are what we call mashed potatoes?
• ZWICK 4 PREZ

  

  krambman wrote: So does that mean that in the south that mashed potatoes are what we called baked potatoes and smashed potatoes are what we call mashed potatoes?

  Couldn't tell you on that. You mash buttons at least.
• Apple

  

  I'm confused.
• coyotes22

  

  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  
  That comes with old age!!
• superman

  krambman wrote: So does that mean that in the south that mashed potatoes are what we called baked potatoes and smashed potatoes are what we call mashed potatoes?

  Nope. They still have regular mashed potatoes
• ernest_t_bass

  

  I'm gonna mash you down the stairs!
• Darkon

  

  Full Court Mash
• snyds113

  ernest_t_bass wrote: I'm gonna mash you down the stairs!

  mash=press not push
• ernest_t_bass

  

  That's how I say it though... I'm going to press you down the stairs, DUH!
  
  Right after I get done bench mashing.
• snyds113

  Ok I gotta go to the cleaners to get my suit mashed.
• Darkon

  

  Don't mash your luck!
• Con_Alma

  fixin' = going to
• coyotes22

  

  Im mashed for time!!!
• snyds113

  I'm fixin'to go get my suit mashed.That's better.
• gorocks99

  

  I just bought a french mash for coffee.
• Darkon

  

  I'm fixin to work out.
  Do a little bench mash.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  ernest_t_bass wrote: That's how I say it though... I'm going to press you down the stairs, DUH!
  
  Right after I get done bench mashing.

  Darkon wrote: I'm fixin to work out.
  Do a little bench mash.

  Good one :dodgy:
• ernest_t_bass

  

  Times are tough, so I must mash on.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  Pistol Pete really looked up to his father, Mash Maravich
• Darkon

  

  I enjoy reading the Free Mash.
• queencitybuckeye

  "Push" is the same word, but my southern in-laws pronounce it "pooooooooooooosh"
• snyds113

  queencitybuckeye wrote: "Push" is the same word, but my southern in-laws pronounce it "pooooooooooooosh"

  In these parts we call that Dillonvale talk.
• Milbarge

  Speaking of the South.....
  
  What's the difference between a Yankee & a Damn Yankee?
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The Damn Yankee doesn't leave.....
  
  That's what my wife was told where she worked when we lived in North Charleston, SC back in 1992.