South Texas VS West Texas (Harlingen, New Braunfels: work, hospital, diverse)

[NOTAM]

ah! see! i didnt pull up Pearsall out of the thin air-i knew there was some George Strait connection! he he..thanks lifertexan..

Originally Posted by lifertexan

GS was born in Poteet, but grew up in Pearsall. He moved to San Marcos to go to college at SWT.

[ColdCanadian]

Originally Posted by bellestaroftexas

i've never heard any thick Southern accents in Jacksonville FL..but then again, lots of transplants there, plus lots of active duty Navy there and their families....just like Savannah GA where i lived for 3 years, just an hour and half north of Jacksonville.......barely heard a southern accent there...though some ole timey folks did have a sloooooooooow southern Georgia drawl..which is SO different than the Texas twang......

When I travelled through Georgia and rural north Florida, everytime I heard someone talk, it was with a southern accent and it was never fast. I've also met some northern transplants to the Jacksonville area. They still had their PA accents but they never talked fast either. In SC, almost everyone I met who wasn't a tourist had at least traces of the Carolina accent, most had a slow Carolina drawl.

BTW, how much slower is a Georgia drawl than a Texas twang?
All the southern accents I've heard were about the same speed,
but I've never been west of East Tennessee.

[Trainwreck20]

Well, having worked in Georgia and living in Texas, I can tell the difference in accent, but I have never really tried to put my finger on it. It isn't the speed people talk, it is how long vowels are dragged out. In particular, I once remember hearing someone say 'dog', and I had to stop and think about what they had just said...it came out VERY dawg (or even dawwg or dawwwg ).

Personally, it seems the texas 'twang' is thickest in East Texas, followed by the panhandle, then West Texas. Almost any major city has a dilution of the accent, so you don't hear much of one in Dallas, Austin, San Antonio...although I do hear it in Houston more when I am there...go figure.

Belle, it is the same Texas it ever was, it just covers A LOT of terrain. There never was much of an Texas accent in SA or South Texas (or even Austin), but where I grew up in Georgetown, you could always find it.

Anyway, I don't think I have much of an accent, but my vocabulary is completely 'Texan'.

Now, y'all have a good day, I am fixin' to go do my timesheet....

[Azzurri]

Are the crime/gang/drugs comparable between the western boundaries and the southern boundaries of Texas?

How about the school districts? Any thoughts on that?

(Thanks everyone for all your responses on this topic!)

[ColdCanadian]

Originally Posted by Trainwreck20

In particular, I once remember hearing someone say 'dog', and I had to stop and think about what they had just said...it came out VERY dawg (or even dawwg or dawwwg ).

I'm familiar with 'dog' sounding like it has two vowel sounds. Is that what you're talking about?

[Trainwreck20]

Yeah, two syllables, kind of a da-awg? Hmmm...not good at phonetics

Funny thing - have you ever seen King of the Hill? There is a guy on there, Boomhower or some such name, who talks really fast and mumbly and you can only pick out a few words. I swear to god he was sacking grocieries in Albany, GA when I went into a Publix once. He sounded JUST like him. I think he was being friendly, from the few words I could pick out.

[NOTAM]

Albany GA...aint that the birthplace of Paula Deen?

[kwk]

Anything south of San Antonio will feel like Mexico. However, San Antonio is considered South Texas and you wont feel like a minority. Its alot better than West Texas, IMO

everything south of san antonio will NOT necessarily feel like mexico. parts of san antonio feel like mexico! i live in victoria and it doesnt really like mexico. i would say anything south of corpus christi probably feels like mexico. and west texas is REALLY sparse!

[kwk]

i live in victoria and it doesnt really like mexico.

my bad- "Victoria doesn't really *FEEL* like Mexico"

[ColdCanadian]

Originally Posted by Trainwreck20

Yeah, two syllables, kind of a da-awg? Hmmm...not good at phonetics

Funny thing - have you ever seen King of the Hill? There is a guy on there, Boomhower or some such name, who talks really fast and mumbly and you can only pick out a few words. I swear to god he was sacking grocieries in Albany, GA when I went into a Publix once. He sounded JUST like him. I think he was being friendly, from the few words I could pick out.

How it sounds to me is more like "Dah-oge," but your's is pretty close too.

Funny! I love the way Boomhauer (or Boomhower?) sounds.