This is scientific news?

[johnnie]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=68&e=1&u=/nyt/20031128/ts_nyt/scholarsoftwangtrackalltheyallsintexas

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Among the unexpected findings, said Guy Bailey, a linguistics professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio and a leading scholar in the studies with his wife, Jan Tillery, is that in Texas more than elsewhere, how you talk says a lot about how you feel about your home state.

I have been to a few different places and we all speak different. Is Texas another country or do they just think they are? If I drive an hour south from where I live (I live in Cleveland, Oh)they speak different. Just wonderin' what ya'll think.

[Ilsa]

1. Molly Ivins, Ann Richards, etc.

love Texas. Very proud of their state. Very strong twang and accent. They don't even try to hide it.

I like sounding like I'm from the midwest; other times, I really overplay the Texas twang.

[Ernesto]

2. Being a Californian, I detest texas

However, my heart is with all those fine, suffering people that have the guts to be DEMOCRATS in that politcal shit-hole.

[johnnie]

4. Being a Californian.....

Is that a case of penis envy?...J/K...
It never ceases to amaze me; the un-united United States

[Ernesto]

6. Whip it out! let's compare!

Seriously, think about what shrubco/Enron did to my state. They basically turned us upside down..... Electricity price fixing while bush's fed regulators look the other way, sabotaging our economy, setting up a DEMOCRATICLY elected governor for a very costly recall. We end up with the bill & an action figure hero fumbling around in our state house. Thanks again, texas, for spawning the Rove inspired chimp/beast..... You all couldn't have done a better job of F$$KING us in our heart.

[BlueJazz]

5. Any time a right-wing Texan starts with the bragging B.S......

....I give them a sly look and say:
"Ah...you DO know that Texas ranks nearly on the bottom of every
attribute that makes a state great?"

They usually don't say to much after that.

[Maeve]

3. Jist more Texas brag

There's more variation between hollars in the hills than in that big ol stretch down there south of Oklahoma.