How 'Funny' do Texans speak?
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I can read it and I'm born and raised Kansan. It must help to have a kind of rednecky background. 
I'd have put myself in the same camp as the guy from Iowa, and at least try to claim that I have a neutral accent. For example, listening to the majority of spoken language on television, which to my ear is fairly neutral, it sounds the same as how I speak. Regional phrasing, like supper/dinner or pop/soda will differentiate me, but I don't think an accent would.
The only time I've been told I have an accent is by my aunt from Michigan. The "Kansas Midwestern" accent I believe she called it. I tried the whole neutral accent argument but she wouldn't have any of it, even though she couldn't give me any specific examples of what it was like. Hard to say, maybe I'm just tone-deaf and in denial.
I'd have put myself in the same camp as the guy from Iowa, and at least try to claim that I have a neutral accent. For example, listening to the majority of spoken language on television, which to my ear is fairly neutral, it sounds the same as how I speak. Regional phrasing, like supper/dinner or pop/soda will differentiate me, but I don't think an accent would.
The only time I've been told I have an accent is by my aunt from Michigan. The "Kansas Midwestern" accent I believe she called it. I tried the whole neutral accent argument but she wouldn't have any of it, even though she couldn't give me any specific examples of what it was like. Hard to say, maybe I'm just tone-deaf and in denial.
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Old manager of mine would use 'wursh' for 'wash', drove me freaking bananas!
I've got a habit of calling people 'pardner' (partner) if I'm helping out, or receiving help, from a stranger. Someone holds open a door when I've got my hands full, they get a, "Thank you, pardner!" Someone thanks me for doing something, "No problem, pardner!"
My fiance gets on me each time I say that. She says I sound like a bonafied hick, and that 'parder' is kind of offensive, like calling someone 'Sport' or 'Tiger'.
I see nothing wrong with it!
I've got a habit of calling people 'pardner' (partner) if I'm helping out, or receiving help, from a stranger. Someone holds open a door when I've got my hands full, they get a, "Thank you, pardner!" Someone thanks me for doing something, "No problem, pardner!"
My fiance gets on me each time I say that. She says I sound like a bonafied hick, and that 'parder' is kind of offensive, like calling someone 'Sport' or 'Tiger'.
I see nothing wrong with it!
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I'm an expatriate cajun living in Texas and I'm told we talk wierd. Since I've been here I've gotten strange looks (or given them for)
Melancon =Mel-un-kon in TX =Ma-lon-son in LA
Richard =Rich-ard in TX =Ree-shard in LA
Thibodeaux =Thigh-bo-dee-ax in TX =Tib-u-do in LA
Guilliot =Gil-li-ot in TX =Gee-ot in LA
Bergeron =Burg-er-on in TX =Ber-jur-on in LA (or Baj-er-on, depends where you're from)
And of course I say dis, dat, dees, and doze instead of this, that, these and those!!!
Melancon =Mel-un-kon in TX =Ma-lon-son in LA
Richard =Rich-ard in TX =Ree-shard in LA
Thibodeaux =Thigh-bo-dee-ax in TX =Tib-u-do in LA
Guilliot =Gil-li-ot in TX =Gee-ot in LA
Bergeron =Burg-er-on in TX =Ber-jur-on in LA (or Baj-er-on, depends where you're from)
And of course I say dis, dat, dees, and doze instead of this, that, these and those!!!
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From: S/C Texas
Texas to Georgia.....I've heard "....fixinda...." all thru the 'southern states' .
Its just them there yankees that dont get it.
And thats okay, cause I've been thru the north....and eubonics gets me purty confused.....oh wait...thats in the south too.
Its just them there yankees that dont get it.
And thats okay, cause I've been thru the north....and eubonics gets me purty confused.....oh wait...thats in the south too.
