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Saw a bunch of posts recently talking about how saying sorry all the time can be a sign of emotional abuse and, as a Michigander living in New England, here are a few other super common meanings of sorry:
• move.
• you're in the way.
• pay attention, bro.
• what are you doing?
• who the fu-????
• that's my bad.
• thanks.
• excuse me.
• no, I don't have time for this.
• do I know you? No.
• don't judge me, I'm doing something.
• no I don't need help, let me struggle in peace!
• I am in the way, but I noticed you, so by the laws of sorry you can't be that mad.
• STFU you stupid-ass mfing bloated bag of beef.
• that was a nice warning, don't you see the twitching? Bout to go off on a bitch.
• that joke was mean but funny and accurate, I just didn't mean to say it out loud.
Sorry is an accusation, a command, and a judgement. I cannot help the disdain in my eyes when a New Englander laughs at me for what they think is apologizing, and I turn on the translator cus they ain't gonna get it, so I sound kinda deranged as I ride by like: "sorry, sorry? Sorry, 'scuse me- I mean wtf, move! Are you stupid? You're walking down the middle of the path on a blind curve you dumbass donkey." And then they laugh and move, like what?
Sorry is the prequel, a call for attention, a chance to get yourself right before it's God you're explaining yourself to. No more pity replies, just move yourself or your cart/buggy/carriage out the way, and ope, sorry is all you'll have to hear.
#midwest gothic#midwesterner in new england#as tactful as emily in paris#as funny as a kid in king arthur's court#new englanders be wildin#why do y'all like getting yelled at#what's wrong with you#sorry isn't sorry#I'm sorry#that's the apology#just sorry is a warning my guy#linguistic anthropology#linguistics#american dialects#I'm living in a constant trope#I say sorry as in wtf and they laugh and say no you're fine#it's not fine tony!#and I'm not sorry#I mean funny as in komish not funny as in lustig
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