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Old 05-24-2008, 12:56 PM
 
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aaahhhh...I feel like the Grinch on Christmas day when his heart swells 5x bigger when he learns the true meaning of Christmas! You just made my day and I feel honored.
Welllll, gosh darn, Miss T...I bet there are at least a dozen Texas fellers on this forum that would either ride a bull, pick a row of cotton, or sing the Eyes of Texas, to Waltz Across Texas with You!

Same true with the lovely Miss BlueSkies, LoneStar, THL, and all the rest of the lovely ladies who make our Great State the "Pretty Wimmin State" State! Grins!

Ain't that right, boys?
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Old 05-24-2008, 02:15 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh--Home of the 6 time Super Bowl Champions!
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Welllll, gosh darn, Miss T...I bet there are at least a dozen Texas fellers on this forum that would either ride a bull, pick a row of cotton, or sing the Eyes of Texas, to Waltz Across Texas with You! Ain't that right, boys?
TexasReb....from your lips to God's ears!! (I'm counting on it!)
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Old 05-26-2008, 08:02 PM
 
Location: Goldthwaite, Texas
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Even Texans are loosing some valuable Texanisms. My Grandfather always said "cheer" when speaking about the split bottom piece of furniture on his porch. As in "Dew take a cheer".
When speaking of his porch he said gallery or verandah.
My Grandmother had a very unusual word, it was COMmenced with emphasis on the first three letters. "I Commenced laughing at your Grandpa".
Stan
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Old 05-26-2008, 10:23 PM
 
Location: Hutto, Tx
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My husband says COMmenced. I think he started out saying it that way just to be funny, but now it's how he says it without even thinking about it.
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Old 05-27-2008, 05:53 PM
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Location: Suburban Dallas
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Thumbs up Tayk'-see-us Wimmin

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Welllll, gosh darn, Miss T...I bet there are at least a dozen Texas fellers on this forum that would either ride a bull, pick a row of cotton, or sing the Eyes of Texas, to Waltz Across Texas with You!

Same true with the lovely Miss BlueSkies, LoneStar, THL, and all the rest of the lovely ladies who make our Great State the "Pretty Wimmin State" State! Grins!

Ain't that right, boys?
Three thumbs up!!
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Old 02-09-2010, 08:57 PM
 
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Everyone knows us Texans don't have an "accent"! Its everyone else that tawks funny!
First of all, no. Second, are you purposely trying to embarass the state of Texas? You misspelled (spelled wrong) talks. You spelled it "tawks". Who does that? Please tell me you did this on purpose because misspelling talks and instead writing "tawks" is just plain stupid.
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Old 02-09-2010, 09:16 PM
 
Location: Central Texas
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I believe that the spelling of "tawks" in that context was, indeed, a joke. Typing with an accent while denying having one..
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Old 02-09-2010, 11:15 PM
 
Location: Underneath the Pecan Tree
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First of all, no. Second, are you purposely trying to embarass the state of Texas? You misspelled (spelled wrong) talks. You spelled it "tawks". Who does that? Please tell me you did this on purpose because misspelling talks and instead writing "tawks" is just plain stupid.
That post is pretty old......
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Old 02-11-2010, 11:35 AM
 
Location: Prescott Valley, Az (unfortunately still here)
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That was really good!

But not all of us Texans talk like that. Yes, I still have a drawl/accent, but I do pronounce my words correctly thought. Especially out here in Arizona (where everyone makes fun of my accent and always asks me, "Where you from anyway? You talk different"), I have talk a little bit proper for them to understand me here. But sometimes it comes out a little stronger when I go back home every year for a visit.
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Old 02-12-2010, 08:33 PM
 
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That was really good!

But not all of us Texans talk like that. Yes, I still have a drawl/accent, but I do pronounce my words correctly thought. Especially out here in Arizona (where everyone makes fun of my accent and always asks me, "Where you from anyway? You talk different"), I have talk a little bit proper for them to understand me here. But sometimes it comes out a little stronger when I go back home every year for a visit.
Lina? I can sure appreciate all you say...but I think one of the saddest "mistakes" we Texans/Southerners make is to accept by default that OUR way of speaking is the one that is "wrong." That is, in terms of accent, and idiom, and inflection, and all. It is almost like we must proceed from that our dialect needs "correcting". Apparently, to be measured according to some bland "beta" mass-produced accent from somewhere in the midwest or something.

To hell with that. As the old Alabama song goes, "I'll speak my Southern Engish just as natural as please..."

I mean, I want to sound like I am FROM somewhere. And I want my children and grandkids to do the same. When I get together with fellow Texans/Southerners, I want to be around folk who talk alike and sound alike and know what "y'all, and "coke" mean and it's ok to pronounce salmon with the capital L! As in SaLmon, not sa'mon.

I like the way we Texans talk. And if it comes out "tawk"...then I am proud of that too!
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