The Cost of California Liberalism
Jim Choate
ravage at einstein.ssz.com
Mon Dec 18 14:27:33 PST 2000
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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