The Cost of California Liberalism

[Ken Brown]

But the Bush family is from Connecticut or somewhere. They *are*
Yankees.  Bush I never spoke with anything like a Texan voice & Bush II
has to try. Bill's parody is a parody of a parody of a Texan accent, not
a parody of a Texan accent.

When I worked in the Oil business some of my less sensitive English
colleagues sometimes tried to parody Texan accents. They always got it
very wrong - for example saying "Hooston" most Americans  would instead
of "Hyooston" as both we English and the Texans do (of course the name
is originally Scottish (a place near Glasgow) and in it's homeland is
"Hooston".) 

We find it hard to tell Southern US accents apart from each other and
(genuinely) hard to tell Southern white accents from
the sort of black voices Tim rips off so charmingly. When I actually
went to Houston I found out that a whole load of people I'd thought were
black on the 'phone turned out to be white, with various Southern
accents, and some people I'd imagined were white were in fact black, but
with middle-class northern college-educated voices.

Ken



Jim Choate wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Ray Dillinger wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Bill Stewart wrote:
> > >
> > >Besides, Jim, as a Texan your tradition role in discussions of
> > >natural gas policies is supposed to be to say
> > >"let the bastards freeze in the dark" :-)
> >
> > ITYM "Wal, we can ship ya some natcherl gas, er some awl, but
> > it's a gonna cost ya.... Tha awl bidness has its ups and downs,
> > ya see.  "  :-)
> 
> Ray, your Texas drawl sucks.
> 
> Yankee's start sentences with "Well,...." and there is no Texas drawl on
> '...el...'.
> 
> People from Kansas and Oklahoma (definitely not southern) say 'awl'.
> 
> I don't know anyone who pronounces it 'natcherl', definitely no native
> Texan.
> 
> Yankee's say 'it's a gonna', we say 'it's fixin' to'.
> 
> 'Tha' isn't Texan, 'Thuh' would be.
> 
> 'bidness' is a (black) yankee term, not southern.
> 
> And we don't say 'ya see'.
> 
> You have yankee/mid-west confused with Texas/southern. But me and my
> native Texas friends got a kick outta it, thanks for the giggles.
> 
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