Imagine if Texas formed its own language called Texan? (eat, best)

[Siberiaboy]

What if Texas had its own language like Greece they speak Greek

Germany they speak German

Norway they speak Norwegian

Serbia they speak Serbian

In Texas they should speak Texan ! And English
We need to write a new language that is exclusively taught in Texas and borrow some Mexican Creole drawl Navajo and mash it up into a language only spoken in Texas!

Maybe simpler than English and yes y’all would be Texan for “you all/ “are you all”. How y’all doin

But I say make it simpler than English

One verb conjugation.

I eat
You eat
He eat
We eat
They eat

No “eats”

We make it no irregularities and very clear .
We don’t need a letter c in the Texas alphabet cus K makes the same sound
We don’t need q cus keu does the trick

If the word you sounds like the letter U we just make it “u”

We don’t need a letter y if it sounds like i use “I” or use “ee” and we only use ee to make long e …just make it super easy . Oo as in soon always “oo” no irregularities no confusion

Texas is about practicality and ease freedom and let loose . A Texan language will reflect it. So easy to learn that you come to Texas you be speaking Texan in 3 weeks

[As Above So Below...]

I honestly don’t know anyone here who talks like that.

[astrohip]

[Treasurevalley92]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvPaEsuz-tY

[GoldenHair]

Originally Posted by Siberiaboy

In Texas they should speak Texan ! And English
We need to write a new language that is exclusively taught in Texas and borrow some Mexican Creole drawl Navajo and mash it up into a language only spoken in Texas!

Maybe simpler than English and yes y’all would be Texan for “you all/ “are you all”. How y’all doin

But I say make it simpler than English

Your proposal reminds me of the Scottish writer George Bernard Shaw's proposal to simplify English spelling using 40 letters to capture each unique English sound.

The spirit of his proposal was hilariously captured in the article by Dolton Edwards: "Meihem In Ce Klasrum". Astounding Science Fiction, Street and Smith Publications, Inc. (1946)

It was reprinted in the 1963 Prentice Hall book: A Stress Analysis of a Strapless Evening Gown. Out of Print. Local Library?? Or good old Amazon where people are selling expensive used copies.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0138526087...ing=UTF8&aod=1

[turf3]

Personally I'm a big fan of the Schwa Project; whereby all vowel sounds would be replaced by the schwa; the ”uh” sound. Interestingly enough you can communicate pretty effectively in English this way. Other languages not so much.


Extra points to anyone who can identify the source of the Schwa Project.

[Thoreau424]

That'd be too much trouble. True Texans don't get caught up in complicated and unnecessary matters.

[Westerner92]

The saying in linguistics goes “a language is a dialect with an army”. Mutually intelligible dialects calling themselves different languages is more of a political statement than anything. English is already pretty much the most “free form” major world language, and really there are only conventions among academia, no standard formal rules. My American spelling, punctuation, and grammar conventions didn’t trip up professors in Australia at all. The difference between, say, Scottish and Texan speech is about as large as the difference between Norwegian and Swedish or Polish and Czech. It was hilarious to witness my very west Texan family and my very working class Scottish best friend’s husband increasingly struggle to communicate as they steadily got more alcohol in them.

That said, one thing I propose is to drop the apostrophe from yall. Who cares if it originally was a contraction of “you all”? Putting the apostrophe there makes it seem unnecessarily improper, and I think there’s a strong case to be made that it’s the best replacement for the second-person plural pronoun of the dozens that have been invented around the Anglosphere. I’m starting to do it in professional emails.

[LTU2]

In World War 2, speakers of the Navajo language were used as communicators since there was NO printed word of it, the enemies could not break it.

[Need4Camaro]

…please no.