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Sometimes when we say "I don't get it" we're making a sarcastic comment, but that's not what I'm doing this time.
I listened to a telejournalist named something-or-other Guthrie reporting on the Bush wedding in Texas and heard her say, "...only about two hundrad of the closast frands will attand the wadding..."
She also mentioned "Taxas wildflowers."
I've been going nuts listening to more and more TV people saying A for E.
I truly don't get it. Where in the world is this stuff coming from?
If you are from Texas, that is the way it is said. They don't have an E in thier alphabet. (: Have you ever tried to talk to anyone in Louisiana? I tried to order breakfast there and the waitress asked my husband what I wanted as she couldn't understand my accent. Right after that I asked a truck driver how to get to the town of Jena. After about one minute, I said thank you I will look for it on the road map. I was born and raised in Arizona.
With all due respect, I honestly think you've got it wrong.
I lived in Texas for over ten years. NOBODY spoke that way.
And the media person was, I believe, from California.
Listen to Lynn Sue Cooney. She says her e's almost the same way, but she's not quite as bad.
As for Texans, that "mine eyes" for mayonaise accent is fine with me.
I ran across a little girl from Alabama when I was in college in Texas taking my masters degree. She was complaining about the Texas accent.
Her comment? "Ah jus cain't unnerstan thays Texuns. Someone asked may for somethin to write with, and ah sware ah couldn't tell whither she was saying pie-in or pie-in."
PS: A pie-in is apparently either something you write with or something you use on a diaper.
PPS: I think the southern accent is great.
And, except for that A for E crap, I don't think an accent, or lack of one, has anything to do with brains.
Wanta hear an accent? Try New England. Boston, for example. ================= So I ask again: Anybody know where the a for e thing started?
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Posted by Tom_Garrett (Tom Garrett) on May 12, 2008 at 3:03 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Sometimes when we say "I don't get it" we're making a sarcastic comment, but that's not what I'm doing this time.
I listened to a telejournalist named something-or-other Guthrie reporting on the Bush wedding in Texas and heard her say, "...only about two hundrad of the closast frands will attand the wadding..."
She also mentioned "Taxas wildflowers."
I've been going nuts listening to more and more TV people saying A for E.
I truly don't get it. Where in the world is this stuff coming from?
Does anybody know?
Posted by Ruby_Finney (Ruby Finney) on May 12, 2008 at 4:39 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Deep in the heart of Taxas !
Posted by patrandall (pat Randall) on May 12, 2008 at 4:54 p.m. (Suggest removal)
If you are from Texas, that is the way it is said. They don't have an E in thier alphabet. (:
Have you ever tried to talk to anyone in Louisiana?
I tried to order breakfast there and the waitress asked my husband what I wanted as she couldn't understand my accent.
Right after that I asked a truck driver how to get to the town of Jena.
After about one minute, I said thank you I will look for it on the road map.
I was born and raised in Arizona.
Posted by Tom_Garrett (Tom Garrett) on May 13, 2008 at 2:10 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Folks,
With all due respect, I honestly think you've got it wrong.
I lived in Texas for over ten years. NOBODY spoke that way.
And the media person was, I believe, from California.
Listen to Lynn Sue Cooney. She says her e's almost the same way, but she's not quite as bad.
As for Texans, that "mine eyes" for mayonaise accent is fine with me.
I ran across a little girl from Alabama when I was in college in Texas taking my masters degree. She was complaining about the Texas accent.
Her comment? "Ah jus cain't unnerstan thays Texuns. Someone asked may for somethin to write with, and ah sware ah couldn't tell whither she was saying pie-in or pie-in."
PS: A pie-in is apparently either something you write with or something you use on a diaper.
PPS: I think the southern accent is great.
And, except for that A for E crap, I don't think an accent, or lack of one, has anything to do with brains.
Wanta hear an accent? Try New England. Boston, for example.
=================
So I ask again: Anybody know where the a for e thing started?
Posted by patrandall (pat Randall) on May 13, 2008 at 2:55 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I just saw a bumper sticker in towna few minutes ago.
It had Maine across the top and underneath it said.
Bumpah Stickah
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