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Old 06-25-2008, 08:56 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Well most of them are toothless rednecks, dont you live in Houston? Maybe if you'd leave the city you would see.
Don't talk to me like I live under a rock. Do you really think I haven't been outside of Houston, or for that matter, that there aren't any "toothless rednecks" in Houston? Maybe you're the one who should get out more.
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Old 06-25-2008, 09:42 PM   #2 (permalink)
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People (Girls mainly, guys just don't notice for some reason) , always ask if I'm French or something. I don't know why, I've never lived or even bee outside of the country since I left the fetal position. But a store owner in NYC could tell I was from California. I don't get it.
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People (Girls mainly, guys just don't notice for some reason) , always ask if I'm French or something. I don't know why, I've never lived or even bee outside of the country since I left the fetal position. But a store owner in NYC could tell I was from California. I don't get it.

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sweet nothing openly flaunts the fact that he is merely the empty shell of an even more unadmirable member. his loneliness and need for attention bleeds through every letter he types. edit: i would just like to add that i'm ashamed that he's from texas. surely you didn't grow up in texas, did you sweet nothing?
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Me or the store owner...
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Me or the store owner...
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sweet nothing openly flaunts the fact that he is merely the empty shell of an even more unadmirable member. his loneliness and need for attention bleeds through every letter he types. edit: i would just like to add that i'm ashamed that he's from texas. surely you didn't grow up in texas, did you sweet nothing?
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Your mother? It's no clearer.
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Your mother? It's no clearer.
You really must be if its still not clear, and you know someone's desperate for a comeback when they use a 'youre mother' joke.
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sweet nothing openly flaunts the fact that he is merely the empty shell of an even more unadmirable member. his loneliness and need for attention bleeds through every letter he types. edit: i would just like to add that i'm ashamed that he's from texas. surely you didn't grow up in texas, did you sweet nothing?
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hell no i aint jokeing,....southerners will tell you they dont claim texas,.....and texas sure as hell doesnt claim anything but texan,....

you know sweets, youre young, and i under stand that being texan means little to you, and you almost seem ashamed of it,.....

but i look at it much differently,.....being texan is part of what defines me, its who i am, my family was here before texas was texas, and in some way i think i get strength outa this dirt under my feet,.......you should take pride in being texan, we have a rich history, amazing natural resources, and just,....alot of cool ****,......
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Ignoring this whole Texas/Southern accent argument completely (sorry guys, you're all flyover states to me! )...

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People (Girls mainly, guys just don't notice for some reason) , always ask if I'm French or something. I don't know why, I've never lived or even bee outside of the country since I left the fetal position. But a store owner in NYC could tell I was from California. I don't get it.
Last time I was in NY someone did place my California accent, and a few years ago when I was in the UK a ****ing homeless guy was even making fun of it! It's funny, I've never really thought of us Californians as having our own accents. I mean, I do say "dude", "like", and "totally" more than I probably should (well, not that much), but other than those words I don't really think of myself as speaking in a certain way. Maybe we just speak American English like normal people and it's the rest of the country that's weird?
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Ignoring this whole Texas/Southern accent argument completely (sorry guys, you're all flyover states to me! )...



Last time I was in NY someone did place my California accent, and a few years ago when I was in the UK a ****ing homeless guy was even making fun of it! It's funny, I've never really thought of us Californians as having our own accents. I mean, I do say "dude", "like", and "totally" more than I probably should (well, not that much), but other than those words I don't really think of myself as speaking in a certain way. Maybe we just speak American English like normal people and it's the rest of the country that's weird?
Everybody speaks in a certain dialect/accent/register of a language which should be recognizable to the informed outsider. The homeless person getting the point that you were Californian is a good example of this - in the United Kingdom there is quite a lot of television exposure to various Californian accental varieties through a number of sitcoms and other shows, so for the one with a good ear it's quite recognizable.

What I find interesting though is the point that you've never really thought of yourself as speaking in a certain way. I mean, personally I found that just hearing people speak differently all the time made me automatically conscious from early on that I must talk in a certain way and that it is only one way among many. It's interesting to try to put on other regional accents and then to carefully observe and consider the huge amounts of differences in pronunciation, intonation and so forth; tests like this make one realize just how much they themselves are speaking differently.
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