Wake up and smell the Texan
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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#2 written by Chainsaw 7 years ago
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! -
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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.