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Old 09-26-2013, 07:28 PM
 
Location: The Magnolia City
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Do they pronounce Pedernales, Frugio and Gruene as spelled or as spoken?
Throughout most of my life, I wouldn't have been able to tell you how to pronounce either of these.
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Old 09-26-2013, 08:50 PM
JJG
 
Location: Fort Worth
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That's cool and all but Texas is changing and the accents are dying. Most people who are born and raised in the cities do not really have an accent. The youth in urban areas especially do not speak with an accent. Those accents are really only prominent in rural areas.
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Young Dallasite, Dorrough:


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Sounds like an accent to me.
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Old 09-26-2013, 09:29 PM
 
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*ahem*

Young Dallasite, Dorrough:


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Sounds like an accent to me.
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I thought we had already agreed that they indeed do.
The op was not talking about southern urban accent. This thread is about the old accent. I've already had that discussion in this thread.

"The youth in urban areas especially do not speak with an accent."

Poor choice of words on my part.

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Old 09-26-2013, 09:45 PM
 
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Check a map - it's true that Texas has a lot of large Cities that get a lot of attention in the media - we have always had a large immigrant/emigrant population .... it defines Texas. You either become a Texan or you don't. The lingo and accent creep into those that do remain and it may evolve, but it brings the sum of it's parts to that evolution. Try telling those folks that were "born and raised in Texas cities" that they are not "real" Texans because they were raised in a City. I never said anything about that... Do they pronounce Pedernales, Frugio and Gruene as spelled or as spoken? I guarantee you there are numerous ways people pronounce that. There are distinct "Texanisms" that transcend "accent".

Texas does "change" and has always done so ..... but on a basic level it doesn't "change" to wherever those who came here might want it to "change". They come and they go - But Texas remains Texas.

It works well.
On what basic level does it remain the same? Because culturally, socially and politically we are seeing some changes.
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Old 09-27-2013, 08:43 AM
 
Location: Somewhere flat in Mississippi
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Maybe the accent ain't dead yet!


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Old 09-27-2013, 06:14 PM
 
Location: Oroville, California
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I've noticed that most young people - especially girls - speak with the same flat, nasally accent from coast to coast. They hit their "a" as in "and" with this "E-and" sound. Or say "thanks" like "thinks". Sounds like they're all from Des Moines or something.
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Old 09-28-2013, 08:35 AM
 
Location: Somewhere flat in Mississippi
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I've noticed that most young people - especially girls - speak with the same flat, nasally accent from coast to coast. They hit their "a" as in "and" with this "E-and" sound. Or say "thanks" like "thinks". Sounds like they're all from Des Moines or something.

Once "Valleyspeak" went nationwide, we were never the same!

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