I live in here down in texas and laughed when my sister told me this.

At school there's a guy that came here from NY. Well, my sister said the guy said this, "You Texans talk funny.I heard someone say 'Im fixin to go to class'. How do you 'fix' to go to class.?"

lol, I found that hilarious cuz I say that every day. Anyone agree with the statement by the NY guy? What other words or talk do Texans say funny?

 

Have your sister try this on her friend: Start a conversation about "How funny do Asians speak?", or "How funny do Blacks speak?'. Wait for the shock and sanctimony about making fun of someone's heritage. But Texans, or any other white Americans, totally fair game, apparently.

 

Actually, it sounds like his sister is living in TX.

I've heard it this way.

Texan: "All y'all talk funny. GAWUHDUH talks like we do." ;-)

 

being from ny why not play him the whole repotoire from Jeff Foxworthy and the words from the south?

 

Unless the kid said it to be mean, I doubt it was meant as an insult. There are obvious differences in the ways certain cultures speak and different dialects for each language, regardless of which we'd prefer. A child might remark that an Asian (born in Asia, of course) speaks differently than he or she... but that doesn't make the child some sort of evil racist. Anybody who feels this way, clearly, is seeking some sort of prize for most ridiculous item of the day. It doesn't make anybody feel better to walk on eggshells around others and certainly doesn't level the field at ALL, so the only obvious solution would be to accept that we are different and have different traits, no get all huffety-puffety if someone takes notice of your differences in a way you didn't want (or for some people, DOESN'T take note of your differences!). If you're good at what you do, even bigots will come around.

Ah, so anyway, with that off my chest... yes, Texans. You talk funny. All y'all's Southern drawl... I noticed a kid from Texas who said "drawlin" instead of "drawing". Elongating vowels, dropping the -g from words that end in -ing. And when you say "drawers" instead of pants. Oh, and the way you say "my truck". Like, 'muh-truck', accenting the -k.

But I'm sure you hear people from Michigan talking and it sounds weird too... like people who say "melk" instead of "milk", or "pellow" instead of "pillow". Drives me nuts. And New Yorkers have their own weird accent... "Awfice" instead of "office"... kind of nasal or something. And in Chicago, they do the "au" or "aw" sound too. I'll admit it, sometimes I can't understand what people with heavy accents are saying... especially you Southern folk.

 

What really funny is get a black man from LA, and a white man from thje deep south. Listen to 'em talk. The similarities are striking.

 

Give the kid from NY some time I'm sure he will sound just as funny as the rest of y-all

 

i dont really know anyone with a heavy southern accent since im from the north but even though i think some of its odd i think they're pretty damn cool! ive got some weird things i say "Chicahgo" "melk" i say hockey weird but i cant sound it out! im sure there are a few others but i just cant think of them!

adam

 

Not only do WE ALL speak kind of funny but many of us kinda spel a litle funy to,y'al knou bouts whats i meen?

-1bigsteve (o:

 

I'm from Philly, where we have wooder ice, wooder fountains, etc.

We also have hoagies, but no subs or heroes. I guess that's more along the lines of regional wording, and not so much dialect though. Same thing with soda...no one sells pop around here.

Can't forget "yo" and "The Shore". The Shore pretty much applies to any beach in New Jersey.

 

Even Californians (native) have their own dialect, depending on what part of the state their from.

I have a few Asian friends from China and it's funny when they answer their cell phone: "Hah-row" (hello).

Yu'all undurstind were I'm cumming from?

 

Warren - hockey is something you do in an outhouse down here....

What gets me is this: "Who pireked the cire in the yirde!" That's from up north somewhere...

When I was in Montana about 22 years ago I frequented a small diner in Sidney, north of town. Breakfast wasn't that big of a deal since I had to be on the job at daylight, but supper (or dinner as it's called there) was quite a show. I always wore my old, weathered hat, which had a drawstring, and red bandana. My first night wasn't that bad, but each night afterwards consisted of "talking Texan" before my order was taken. All four waitresses would drag up a chair, sit down like small children, and giggle while I tried to put more than one sentence together. I felt uncomfortable for awhile, but when the job was over and I had to head back home, I sorely missed that little diner and the giggling girls of Sidney.

 

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Ha ha ha.......You are correct. I am from Iowa, where we have a completely neutral accent. Yes, the far northern part of the state does have that "Minnesootan" type thing going on, but for the most part we have zero accent. That makes us very keen on picking out accents in other people. And I will tell you, Michiganders have a distinct accent. Especially if you are a "yooper". Are you? The michigan accent is kind of a cross between a milwaukee accent and a Canadian accent. You guys say funny things like "I'm gonna go put some gaas on tha caar". And instead of motorcycle, it's "mootersickle". But maybe not in the specific region of the state you live in.

 

NE1 from the south should be able to read the following:

M R DUCKS
M R NOT
O S A R, C M *****
Y I B, M R DUCKS

 

There are two main hypotheses about the origin of AAVE "African American Vernacular English" . One is the dialect hypothesis and the other is the creole hypothesis. The dialect hypothesis is the belief that African slaves, upon arriving in the United States, picked up English very slowly and learned it incorrectly, and that these mistakes have been passed down through generations. In other words, AAVE is just "bad English." The creole hypothesis, however, maintains that modern AAVE is the result of a creole derived from English and various West African Languages. Slaves, who spoke many different West African languages, were often thrown together during their passage to the New World. To be able to communicate in some fashion they developed a pidgin by applying English and some West African vocabulary to the familiar grammar rules of their native tongue. This pidgin was passed on to future generations, and as soon as it became the primary language of it's speakers it is classified as a creole. Over the years AAVE has gone through the process of decreolization and is beginning to sound more like Standard English.