Just wondering if I need to learn this, or if it's
outdated. :o)
http://www.rice.edu/armadillo/Texas/talk.html
Still much in use ???
I hate to admit this, but I've caught myself using a few of those phrases and/or words. :-)
Many of those I've heard (and most of those ones I've used) all my life. Some of them I've never even heard a single person use during all my many years I've lived in Texas. Maybe it depends on who you hang around with. Not saying how many years, mind you.
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You dang nab best larn it or we'll be on you like white on rice.
By golly, all of them sayings is plum good.
d@^n straight.
LOL, you're all characters !
Well, I've been here a year and a half and am starting
to say Y'all, but that's as far as it's gotten. I don't know my
way around much yet, but I had the biggest thrill the other
day. A lady pulled up while I was loading groceries and asked
me where a certain business was, a little tailor shop, and I was
able to tell her how to get there ! Believe it or not, that's the
first time I felt like I really lived here. Congratulate me -
I'm a Texan !
Yes Mam, y'all has graduated yusef now!!!!
LOL, thanks Josephine.
Aint shur bout that there apostrophe you stuck in yall but misspelling that aint as bad as a feller from New York I used to jaw with that would say yous instead of yall. I wonder where in tarnation he skidaddled to. lol. I really do not think I have much of an accent but I went to Minnesota to visit a friend once and everybody new I was from Texas. Congratulations Mahnot you shurnuff are a Texan
Here's the scarey part, Excelrealty, I don't think you Texans
talk funny anymore, LOL. Well, except for that friend of
Hank Hill's. I don't understand a word he says.
I'm a native Texan, born of native Texans. Always lived in Texas...but when I was younger, I left the country for a couple of years, living overseas for a while. I flew back to visit my family then. When I took a connecting flight from Dallas to San Antonio, I heard some people talking in a really outrageous Texas accent. I thought OMG, that's too funny...it sounded really exagerated! So when I got home my family sounded just as bad! And that was when I knew how we sound to outsiders.
When the tv series "Dallas" came on I was incensed because the accent was just terrible...wouldn't even watch it. At Christmas that year my brother used his new movie camera. When he played it back and we all heard ourselves....well, you know the rest.
We were worse than the "Dallas" accent.
HEY! Whaddya mean "worse"!?!?!?!?! ;p
If'n I knowed whar Desoto wuz I'd be on you like a duck on a June bug.
Used most of those when I was livin and workin in LALA Land. Really cracked up the CA natives.
But some of them I've heard in MO, KS, and IA.
And some I've only heard in the South:
"That dog won't hunt".
"Pert'near, but not plumb".
"Only thang on that one's mind is his/her hair"
Way back more than a month of Sunday's, when the Mayhaw landed in Galveston and the first Pilgrims settled in Dallas, folks talked clear N proper. Over time they gave in to foreign pressure and renamed the ship the Mayflower and spread yarns bout the first Pilgrims being in Plymouth. But that was back when shambles were meat markets where they actually sold meat. Now shambles are broke down buildings, meat markets are things of vice, vice is second to the president, bad is good, straight is bad and ever since George Washington crossed the Red River anything goes. SOMEBODY GIT A ROPE!!!
Yep. Some folks just need killin'.
Last night, my son-in-law took me to Bass Hall in Ft. Worth,
to see The Pirates of Penzance by the Carl Rosa Company.
What a beautiful building, both inside and out. The performance
was great. He's also taken me to the Amon Carter, another
wonderful place. You know, people may tease about you all
"talking funny", but let me tell you, there's nothing funny about
your Can Do Attitude and your warm and generous hearts.
And you all only play at being country bumpkins - I think that's
just your sense of humor, and I love it.
The woman in the seat next to me heard me talking to my SIL and
she asked me where I was from. When I told Chicago, and I had
only been here a little over a year and a half, and this was my first
time at Bass Hall, she said she would be glad to show me around
Ft. Worth and gave me her phone number ! Now, I've been around
the world enough to know that this is uncommon kindness elsewhere,
but it seems to run in the blood of Texans. Thank you all.
Ah luv bein' frum Texas !
Glad yuh got here quick as yuh could!
Right you are Manhot, I came to Texas from Chicago as well. My two children were born there. Have been a Texan for 39 years and I love it too, this is a wonderful place.
Josephine.
There really is something about Texas that people who haven't experienced it just don't understand it. I'm glad I was born here.
I heard (from some Yankee) that people who move here are Texans and people born here are Texicans. But since it's the only time I've ever heard it (and considering the source...) I wouldn't put much stock in it.
In other words, that dog don't hunt.
I've always been grateful to the USAF for bring me to Texas in 1964. Found out where I belonged. I tell folks from other countries (states) that I'm not leaving alive - I'm as Texan as Davy and Jim - and just as proud.
Told my company in 1989, I'll work where the clients are, but I'm livin in Texas.
I always thought Texicans were those who were here before the Revolution, of course that would make most of them native born.
Mr Crocket and Mr Bowie would probably turn over in their graves if they heard me say this but I got to get it off my chest. My mom traced her family tree some years ago and come upon some letters from her grandfathers or great-grandfathers, don't remember for sure. Two of them was Yanks in the great war. How embarassing. I just had to get it off my chest. If I am no longer welcome on this forum, I understand. lol
I assume you're talking about the U. S. Civil War? I don't see anything to be ashamed of. While I don't know for sure of any ancestors of mine fought on the union side, I'm sure there is probably at least one somewhere there. In that war, it's hard to say one side or the other was completely right or wrong. I think for the Texas Revolution, it's a bit easier because old Santa Anna was such a complete jerk.
Yep, that be the big one. If'n them Yanks hadna skidaddled when'n they did, no tellin what kinda mess wed be in now. Jest havin sum lighthearted fun. Thanks for the reassurance though. I am pretty sure I'd been gainst slavery where ever I lived. Did you see my history lesson bout the Pilgrims up above? lol
well in my defense I am a yank but I do come from screwed up genes if that helps excuse me. I even grew up in a town for a spell where we lived where the abolishonist had the under ground railroad tunnels. Am I still welcome? If not, I can not entirely be trusted to run off considering the bad genes and all.
lol, I lived in Boston for a long while...and being a native Texan...I got ribbed somethin' awful....until I heard their hahvad yahds and pahking the cahs, lol. I brought my Boston honey back here to Texas 4 years ago...and I'm afeared he gets the ribbin' now...lol ;)
Melanie
Hahaha....I didn't think anyone else ever used the term "blinky" for "almost sour" milk...except for my family....lol
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lol
That's funny - I pretended I'm tasting sour milk and
tried saying "ooooh" - like when you taste something
really tart or sour - and you can't do it without your eyes
going "blinky." Maybe that's where it comes from?
Anyways, it makes sense to me. Of course, if you say
"ooooh" for something wonderful, then your eyes open wide.
Try it. Can you tell yet that I lead a rich and full life, crowded
with incident ? LOL, I'm supposed to be paying bills right now.
You`re a wild woman, I can see it. When I moved from Ohio to California, kids laughed at me. I didn`t hear me speaking differently, some words but I heard no accent, now I totally hear it, it is like the same accent in Michigan and Illinois. There is a vowel sound that goes before a vowel. like car is keaar. can`t is kiant aunt ia eiant. milk mielk lol
Now don't go bein' shamed of that dipthong.
laughing through terror of my house shaking due to the hurricane winds we are having. my trash is probably a mile down the street. I am so scared my house is shaking and a tree is swaying the whole trunk against my house. OHhhhhh
Wow, hellnzn -- I know the feeling. Is everything better today?
Hellnz, I sure hope you're OK.
I'm just outside Ft. Worth here and the sky is getting
very dark right now, and we have severe weather warnings
for this afternoon - high winds, hail, possible tornados - again.
This type of weather is all too frequent here and I don't have
a basement to duck into. That's one thing I don't like.
Blinky??? Wasn't that one of the sevin dwarfs? My stepdad lost his whole garden to a hail storm last year in Waco. Hope we can get the hail out of here without damaging our gardens.
It is gone today but is supposed to be back tomorrow and Sunday. Yuck.. Trees fell all over. You are getting our remnants the news said. Tomorrow is a totally different one though. So much for a nice motorcycle ride again. The next weekend I`ll be in Phoenix and the next I`ll be wounded with bandaged up boobies from reduction surgury. I wanted to have a yard sale, guess thats off for a spell.
Well, I'm glad to hear you're OK, and "thanks" for the remnants.
I've got baseball sized hail all over the place here, leaves and
branches everywhere, and we had loads of lightning. A tornado
touched down about 2 miles away and I spent several hours in
the hallway with the cat and dogs. Texas is too exciting !
You're having reduction surgery and you want MY sympathy?
Sheesh, you really know how to hurt a girl, LOL. Hope all goes
well for you and you heal very quickly. All my best.
I went to my moms in Waco last night and then to Austin to visit the Ladybird Johnson wild-flower exibit. We just got back. My son said the hail missed us, so I will see in the morning. I heard about those tornados from the news in Waco. It seemed like there was at least one in every county around here.
I will leave the other part alone. lol
Take care, Mike
Smart move, Mike. :o)
smart move one of the girls got deleted for a picture of some sort meant to empathise with me. Oh the grass is always greener ha? I haven`t had to worry about a tornado since i was a kid. I was working in Northridge after the Northridge quake though and it was surreal. Aftermath of natural disasters leaves you so out of direction. glad all are fine.