So I’m quite distraught. Apparently, I sound like a Texan. Annika commented after watching our film that I sounded Texan. Someone in New York who I was speaking to at work made the same comment. I’m bummed. I don’t want to sound Texan.
I had always been quite happy that everyone in Texas always thinks that I’m from somewhere else, and are surprised to learn I am a native Texan. I always attributed this to the fact that I had always been into doing other accents, and I figured all those years of doing other accents had skewed my own into a more northern or more neutral accent. Many times I find myself slipping toward a more New York area type accent, although just ever so subtly. I guess my accent is so slight that Texans can’t hear it, but anyone else can. I’ll have to work on that…
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Apr
2004
10:53
I rather like Texans, actually. 😉
Plus, at least you don’t get told on the phone, “You don’t sound like you’re from Texas,” all the time. Like I do when I call our res desk in California.
Plus plus, at least you’re not Stokey.
Piss on that! All sorts of famous people sound like where they’re from, which is GOOD. I decry the homoginization of the American accent!
It’s seriously a peeve of mine that East Coasters have such a wide variety of accents and the Westies have, like, four. One: Southern California. Two: TV Style. Three: Hick (“I’m from Warshington and I grow squarsh, which I put in a beg, and I sleep with my head on a pellow.”) Four: Classic Native.
I think that some neighborhoods in Boston have at least that many!
Don’t be so distraught! “Everyone else” is only two New Yorkers so far! What do we know? Nothing, that’s what.
What is “squarsh”? I could do the rest, but I don’t quite get that one. It must be years of practice reading “May Un Mar Lady”.
Hi Jess!
Hi, Simon! Squash. Cost kick a bo’ agin a wo’, ‘ed it wi’ yer ‘ed ’til it bost?
She grows squash? I thought it came in bottles. Or, at best, Tetra-Paks.
Squash!
Also, it turns out that May un Mar Lady hasn’t been seen in the pages of the Sentinel for some time, or there’d be a fun link here for the benefit of everyone who isn’t Simon or me. But there’s going to be a comeback, oh yes!
For what it’s worth, I remember back in the days of Yahoo! voice chat being surprised that you did NOT sound Texan to me. (Although, I don’t know as I know that many other Texans to compare your accent to, but, still…)
Why, it’s just like a courgette!
Courgettes, pumpkins, cucumbers, and so on are indeed part of the squash family of fruit.