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Originally posted by playa
in some places every says Coke regardless of what flavor
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Very true. I was born and raised in East Texas, and down there, people would ask you what flavor of coke you wanted. I still have a few Texas-isms that cling to my speech -- I chronically say I'm "fixing to" do something when I mean I'm "about to." I still say ain't, unfortunately, and I don't think I'll ever completely rid myself of y'all, either.
One of my girlfriends, whom I met online, thought I was an intelligent, erudite person, until she heard me speak on the phone. She's a college-educated, priviliged ivory-tower lesbian from New Yawk, and it took her a long time to understand that my corn-pone country-girl accent did not necessarily mean I was dumbern' a box of rocks.
