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Do you speak Texan?

Nov 28, 2003 8:31PM PST

An article at http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/28/national/28TWAN.html describes some of the distinctions between Texans and the rest of us, as well as some of the differences between urban and rural Texans.

The divergence between urban and rural residents in Texas certainly matches what I see among my patients here in NC. My personal impression (not addressed in the article) is that there are also correlations between education level and accent and idiom. I don't know if it's true in Texas, but among my patients it is fairly clear that the strongest accents (as judged by my non-native ears) tend to be present in the least educated patients. That may be because the more educated patients tend to move 'off the farm' but who knows?

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Nov 28, 2003 11:22PM PST

They want far too much information.

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Ed O'Daniel has a solution for the registration issue
Nov 29, 2003 12:50AM PST

It's already been taken care of. Perhaps I should have reminded everybody that they can visit using:
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Re:Do you speak Texan?
Nov 29, 2003 8:13AM PST

Well Doc, haven't clicked on to the referenced site yet, your comment:
"...but among my patients it is fairly clear that the strongest accents (as judged by my non-native ears) tend to be present in the least educated patients."

Gee, good to know that almost all my Texas US Senators and Representatives are least educated. State politician yankees could slipping in to Austin screwing up our accents..don't know how educated they are. Wink))))

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All generalizations are false ...
Nov 29, 2003 11:16AM PST

Even as I posted I thought about some of the quite highly educated North Carolinians who obviously have strong accents. I do, however, think that there is some correlation between education and accent. That does not mean the well educated patients sound like Yankees by any means. They don't.

As to the quality and extent of education your representatives endured, you are a better judge of that than I am.