{"id":310,"date":"2003-11-28T11:15:18","date_gmt":"2003-11-28T11:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.m3ntalcontraband.com\/?p=310"},"modified":"2020-11-11T10:36:16","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T15:36:16","slug":"are_yew_jus_tryin_to_git_me_to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/?p=310","title":{"rendered":"are yew jus&#8217; tryin&#8217; to git me to talk, is that the ah-deah?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-paragraph\"><b>current selection<\/b> | lightning seeds \u2013 <i>sense<\/i><br><b>feelin\u2019<\/b> | <i>twangy<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"text-paragraph\">theres an article today in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/11\/28\/national\/28TWAN.html?pagewanted=1&amp;hp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ny times<\/a> about research being conducted by the <i>national geographic society<\/i> on the texas twang. i would say that its an interesting article\u2026but i always seem to start these kinds of posts with \u201ctheres an <i>interesting<\/i> article\u2026\u201d so i wont. i find it fascinating how they \u201cromanize\u201d john greers texan accent as if it were a foreign language. the article pointed out the diverging accents of urban and rural texans\u2026and how people from dallas, fort worth, houston, etc generally dont have as pronounced an accent as their rural cousins\u2026which is true. marisol and alice (houston) dont have accents, and ags (dallas) only has a slight accent. i grew up in the boonies of texas\u2026so while i dont know exactly how bad my twang was, im sure it was pretty obvious given the fact that my first friend in nj asked me whether i was from texas the first day i met him. i think i replied \u201c<i>how\u2019d y\u2019all know?<\/i>\u201d it took me a year or two to shake the accent. my sis tho\u2026i think her accent lingered for years. you know, now that i think about it, hers never really went away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"text-paragraph\">&gt; <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/11\/28\/national\/28TWAN.html?pagewanted=1&amp;hp\" target=\"_blank\">the texan twang<\/a><br>&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/xanga\/tx_map1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the boonies of texas<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"230\" src=\"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/texas_twang1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/texas_twang1.jpg 350w, https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/texas_twang1-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/texas_twang1-250x164.jpg 250w, https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/texas_twang1-274x180.jpg 274w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>current selection | lightning seeds \u2013 sensefeelin\u2019 | twangy theres an article today in the ny times about research being conducted by the national geographic society on the texas twang. i would say that its an interesting article\u2026but i always seem to start these kinds of posts with \u201ctheres an interesting article\u2026\u201d so i wont. 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