Comments | eggwards: ✯Texas Accents✯

eggwards

✯Texas Accents✯

Jun 20, 2005 22:55

✯Over the weekend I went to the Gay Men's Chorus of Houston show saturday night. Before the show I met Rick, my old coworker for dinner at the Hard Rock across from the Wortham Center for dinner. Rick's company was great, and he gave me his ticket as he was working box office that night. His partner sings in the chorus. Rick is doing well ( Read more... )

houston, random, texas

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andrewhime June 21 2005, 04:05:16 UTC

*shrug* I've lived in Texas since I was 3, and my accent almost never comes out.

nightfallcub June 21 2005, 04:10:14 UTC

wow, that boy is really really cute. he needs to visit denver here. I'll show him around :)

bendawg June 21 2005, 04:12:34 UTC

That DJ is VERY cute. I am jealous. I want a gay bear DJ at my station(s)!

A letter from the rest of the country or "yankee carpetbaggers revisited" bear_with_me June 21 2005, 06:06:53 UTC

Does ANYONE ANYWHERE in the South know how long ago the civil war was???
Do they tell children in school there the actual dates?
Do they make the people there still believe that Atlanta is STILL smoldering?

Most importantly, does anyone there realize that THEY and their PARENTS and their GRANDPARENTS weren't alive to see the civil war?

Re: A letter from the rest of the country or "yankee carpetbaggers revisited" eggwards June 21 2005, 13:28:41 UTC

Its just figurative, not literal. I know when reconstruction was, and technically, since there wasn't a civil war battle in Texas, there wasn't anything to reconstruct except repatriating the state into the Union again. I( do know some history.

Still, the point is, George Sr. is a Connecticut Yankee who moved his family to Texas for the oil industry and once he made his fortune he started to make his mark in public life. his family isn't texas born and bred and shouldn't be perceived as such.

Not you personally. bear_with_me June 21 2005, 15:10:13 UTC

That post came off a little more harsh than I meant it to....and,of course, you know the dates. I was more pointing out that it sort of seems that the South never really seems to see itself as reintegrated into America fully. Sometimes I swear you would think they are still burying the dead and putting out the fires.

But....not you, you're smart. I also wouldn't like it if the Bush family squatted on my state either. Sorry it was you guys.

paladincub21 June 21 2005, 06:17:27 UTC

My best friend Greg, of whom I often talk, was raised in Houston and has no accent. No one notices he's from Texas, except for the whole texas gentleman thing, but he's also worked hard to remove himself from it. Texas drawl in a corporate attorney works sometimes, but not always.

What is cool though is that he flips into it on command. I've made him do it sometimes, because, well I admit its kinda hawt. It is a beautiful accent, full of expression and surpringly alot of soul. Its shameful that we've badmouthed it so much that people feel bad when it slips out.

Damn, I miss my Brooklyn accent.