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Dad gum it, I sheer don't know what yew fellers are jawin bout. Down here, we unerstan each other jes fine. You can always tell a Texan, but you can't tell him much.

 

A great ply able roots language indeed with it's engineering descriptive capability possibly the best in the world. Having said that it does lack the amour of the more latin based speech.

 

In Florida the accents are regionally different. I know a Miami native who speaks with a New York accent. Around here the native accent sounds more like the Texas accent. My wife is from Rhode Island. That accent makes life interesting.

 

Texan is full of latin based words. Beeville El Paso Llano River Rio Grande The Alamo Pecos Waco etc.

 

Those were just place names. Look at all the words in daily use like lasso chaps sombrero petroleum etc.

 

Internal migration and accents.

When I return to the city of my birth and first 20 years of education, people view me as a foreigner !! I speak funny !

Ive even been asked for a passport and identification !!!

 

I was stopped by the Border Patrol east of El Paso in May and asked the same questions. They even scanned my rig.

 

I thought you retired from gun running Hoyt?
That was your 'fast draw rig'. Right?

 

Jolly,

Don't help the furriners. Next thing you will be saying Texas is not the biggest state in the US of A. Everyone knows Alaska is just ice, not real dirt.

You might as well move to where ever Troy is. Or Colorado.

 

- I thought that was Canada . . .

 

Very funny I said while NSA and DHS crashed through my doors.

 

Yeah, I just got back from there. Had to go check it out for myself.

 

Reminds me of the old joke about a Texas father teaching his kid manners:

"Don't never ask a man where he's from, son. If he's from Texas he'll let you know, and if he ain't there's no sense in embarrassin' him.:

 

Old UK joke about a visiting Texan, he and his host were on their way to Portsmouth to see the ships back in the 50's. The Texan annoys the Brit with comments on the way -

Texan:
"call this a garage? We got bigger dog houses in Texas"
"call this a car? My kids got a bigger go cart" . . . (probably true BTW)
"call that a cow? We got bigger cats in Texas"
"call this a highway? We got bigger driveways in Texas" . . . (also probably true)


So they get there and as their watching the RMS Queen Elizabeth, largest ship in the World back then, sails majestically by on its way to nearby Southampton.

Thoroughly tired of the boasting, the Brit yells out

"come in number 3, your times up!

 

Texan - "Did you know all of England would fit just in this little corner of Texas?"

Brit - "Yes, and it would be quite an improvement, wouldn't it."