OT--dialects ("fixin' to")

[Kimberly]

No: HPFGUIDX 9129

Amanda,

Hope I didn't offend you!  I wasn't trying to dis the Texan dialect, 
I just didn't want to come home sounding like a different person.  I 
didn't go to a party school (in the least), but I did have great 
fun.  The area I was in to my mind seemed barren, but I determined 
that it was better to look up - at the huge, pretty sky - than to 
look at the poor scrawny trees.  I went back and visited a couple of 
months ago, and have only fond memories.  
So!  How to bring this back on-topic at least a little....
I know! Harry has a Privet Drive vocabulary and a Hogwarts vocabulary 
(since he can't talk about magic at home)!  That's the same sort of 
thing, isn't it?

kimberly
who would never dare 'mess with Texas'.  



--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Amanda Lewanski <editor at t...> wrote:
> Kimberly wrote:
> 
> > Then *that* must be where I got it.  I worked really hard at not
> > picking up things like 'y'all' and 'fixin' to' when I spent 3.5 
years
> > in college in TX, but somehow I picked up 'might should'.  Rats!  
Even
> > worse, I say 'used to could'.  It's even worse because I have a
> > totally bland midwestern accent, so it all sounds funny.
> 
> Studies have found that there's a direct relationship between how 
happy
> people were/are in Texas--i.e., how much they liked living there--
and the
> degree to which they internalized the usages. Did you have fun? 
Were you
> at the party school in San Marcos, or someplace else? If it really 
bugs
> you, you might oughta think about therapy.....
> 
> --Amanda