why do people say "he's good people"

jno wrote:

horrible wrote:

Makes no sense

If you do not understand what this means then you are not smart people.

That one made me laugh. You are funny people.

It's not ghetto; it's mostly rural.

It's less personal than "he's a good person." That phrase implies deeper knowledge of character, and in very polite societies (midwest and south) it would be a little too intimate in many cases.

On the other hand, it does speak to character a bit more than "he's nice," which is mostly about manners and affect.

It means that he's one member of a group that we can mutually recognize as basically decent. It can also mean "one of us."

Like a lot of rural colloquialisms, 99% of the people who use it are perfectly aware that it's not really correct grammar (though, like many idioms, one could argue that it's merely an elliptical construction with missing implied words that would make it correct). City folk may use it with a bit of irony, but country folk are more likely to use it in a self deprecating manner (false humility, some might argue).

The only person I know who uses this phrase is a POS who uses it to describe other PsOS who don't challenge his POS actions/motives/thoughts/speech because they share the same POS personality traits. I would stay well away from people who use such dated and vapid phrases and those to whom the phrase is ascribed.

Does he mean he's got multiple personalities? All good?

More like a sociopath/douche who associates with asshats.

It's hardly from the ghetto. It's white hillbilly talk. I know because I grew up amongst them. They's mostly good people, but there are some exceptions (people like yourself).

Luther Poach wrote:

It's hardly from the ghetto. It's white hillbilly talk. I know because I grew up amongst them. They's mostly good people, but there are some exceptions (people like yourself).

This guy gets it. It's absolutely not ghetto.

redux,

I'm surprised my sarcasm was too subtle for you.

When I drove a cab, in The City many years ago, there were three junkies I became pretty good friends with. Saturday night poker parties, smoking pot, etc. They talked that hillbilly crap like , 'he's good people.'

They were interesting guys. Two of them spent three years in a Thai prison for smuggling. I wouldn't have trusted any of them. My experience is that people who use the phrase 'good people' are not good people. It's like when people say 'to be honest with you,' you can believe they are not honest people.

It means his glutes are highly activated

This word pairing is a sub conscious manifestation acknowledging the abstract notion of mankinds oneness. It is a product of the internal struggle between man's natural spiritual disposition and its divergence therefrom.

It's something people say to convince you that he/she or someone else is trustworthy. When people say this to me as well as "trust me", I'm automatically suspicious of them.

He good people. She bad people. We be going to the store!

Rural where? Midwest? I always associated this strange saying with New Jersey, Boston, etc. said with an annoying east coast accent.

Of all the things in the world to worry about.

Luther Poach wrote:

It's hardly from the ghetto. It's white hillbilly talk. I know because I grew up amongst them. They's mostly good people, but there are some exceptions (people like yourself).

Ghetto fication

Everyone knows it

Crime is high

Music is garbage

White girls are impregnated and Dumped

Rules are broken

Pants are stupid

Prisons are filled

Of All The wrote:

Of all the things in the world to worry about.

What? Then why are you on this thread, which i didn't start, by the way.

redux wrote:

More like a sociopath/douche who associates with asshats.

You, specifically, are not good people. You are a d-bag.

Why? Cause grammar ain't no thing.

No, John. Your the douche.

Old guy, sorry. Was finishing up my last day at the office and wasn’t reading closely.

And, John. Your the douche.