Journalist: Texas twang on the rise

AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF ^ | Tuesday, January 25, 2005 | By Katie Humphrey

[Arrowhead1952]

Don't even ask me why Texans don't pronounce Pedernales, Burnet, and Manchaca the way they look here.

[Brilliant]

This is really why the journalists hate Bush. He has the Texas twang.

[deport]

I wonder if they are adapting the ....... Redneck ways

[rdb3]

I've been here in TX for 12 years. Still no "twang." Never will be one, either.

[Sam the Sham]

Robert MacNeill's 8 part "The Story of English" was superb. Why isn't it on DVD ?

In the 'Oh, Pioneers' I loved where he pointed out how many American English expressions are based on poker (anything "deal", underhanded, etc..).

[Servant of the 9]

MacNeil thinks there is "a" Texas accent?

As late as the 70s, you could tell which county a Texan was from by his accent. Things have become more regionalized, but there are still at least 20 different ones.
The same is true in the rest of the South.

So9

[grobdriver]

Don't even ask me why Texans don't pronounce Pedernales, Burnet, and Manchaca the way they look here.

Pur-da-nal-lees
Burn-et
Man-chack-ka

What's so hard about that?
:)

[naturalized]

Don't even ask me why Texans don't pronounce Pedernales, Burnet, and Manchaca the way they look here.

A couple of my favorites are Gruene, Refugio and Lometa.

[theFIRMbss]

>Y'all better get ready because the Texas drawl is the future

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Y'all bettah git ready cuz da Texas drawl
iz da future o' American English -- at least
according ta journalist Robert MacNeil,
who has spent many years studying an' chronicling
how Americans jive. don't make me shank ya!
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Well, helpful people
put up an ebonics page.
We need a drawl page . . .

[nomorelurker]

Calling Professor Higgins. Henry Higgins please please pick up the courtesy phone.

[Servant of the 9]

As a result, people have learned to be bilingual in a sense, speaking a formal standard English and a more informal dialect, depending on the situation, he said.

You can speak any way you want, but if you can't speak an intelligible standard english as well, then you are economically and socially worthless outside your 'hood' and deserve the contempt you receive.

So9

[naturalized]

I've also heard it Burn-it.

[Servant of the 9]

A nice rap in Ebonic, but it's not Texan.
Not any variation.

So9

[isthisnickcool]

Houston = You-ston

Humble = Umble

Damn "H's"!

[DainBramage]

Minner Wells Bump

[Arrowhead1952]

Now, that Redneck ways is a funny thread. Plenty of funny pics.

[Arrowhead1952]

Texas twang ping.....

[Deaf Smith]

We add the letter R to words that we think need them.

I am so proud of my Yankee wife; she now calls us to supper by telling us to go warsh our hands.

Now she will tell you that she is fix'n supper or fix'n to do something and if she's doing something, she's working on it.

[Deaf Smith]

"which county a Texan was from by his accent"

You could also tell where in Texas they were raised by the way that they danced (C&W mind you). Outside of Texas, you were noted as being Texan again by the way you C&W danced. Real Texans don't line dance, that's tourist stuff.

[laurenmarlowe]

Hehehe, thanks for the ping Arrowhead!