[HPforGrownups] Re: OT--dialects ("fixin' to")

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 9152

Kimberly wrote:

> 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.

Great heavens, no. I make fun of it all the time myself, just like I gripe
nonstop about the heat. I figure, I was born here and had no choice in the
matter, so I can gripe. People who moved here of their own volition, it's
their own fault so they can shut up. And how can I possibly laugh at
anyone else if I don't stand in the lineup myself?

Sounds like you were in North Texas, the Dallas area, or maybe Lubbock,
from your description of the wide-open (read: barren) spaces. Ugh. North
Texas is also a stronghold of Texas dialect peculiarities, probably
because there's fewer military bases and stuff, and less dilution.

--Amanda