The Cost of California Liberalism

[Tim May]

At 11:58 AM +0000 12/19/00, Ken Brown wrote:
>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.

Surely everyone knows that those voices are not my own handiwork?

I use the Ebonicizer.


Do ya th'o't I'm joking? Just enter yo' text into da bawx at da URL 
http://joel.net/EBONICS/translator.asp an' it will magically be 
transformed into Ebonics. all ye damn hood ratz..


--Tim May
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Timothy C. May         tcmay at got.net        Corralitos, California
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