Texas-isms

(Reminder:  We TEXANS have our own language.  Some of the words we use are words that are fairly common, but they might have a meaning to us that is different from the "rest of the world.")

I was blog surfing today, and someone mentioned her husband being in "hog heaven" over something.  The fun part?  Reading her next sentence.  It was directed at non-TEXANS and referenced our own language.  It got me to thinking about just how many phrases and words we use in our own way.  We always understand each other, even when the rest of the world doesn't have a clue what we are talking about.  And that is just fine with us.

(By the way, Hog Heaven means that you are extremely happy.)

Some of our words are shared, such as "y'all" which is common throughout the south**.  But very, very few non-TEXANS are brave (or stupid/misguided) enough to use "fixin" (with or without the s on the end) and when they do use it, they generally get it wrong.  It's funny to hear non-TEXANS attempting to speak our language, especially when they are obviously trying to pretend to be one of us (they usually fail miserably).  It's always easy to spot them, as they frequently attempt to use the accent - which just doesn't work if you aren't born to it!  Also, there is no single TEXAS accent - the TEXAN accents are regional.  And there is a lot of region to TEXAS!  The different accents have some similarities to each other.  Not that I think we really have one anyway, it's the rest of the world that sounds funny!

Just what's on my mind today.

**Just because TEXAS is part of the southern half of the US, we don't really consider ourselves to be "southern."  There are a lot of similarities, especially between TEXAN women and southern ones, but we really are not "southern."  However, we do have a lot in common and a lot of admiration for certain aspects of the south and southern culture.  We just aren't part of that, is all.  They are as unique in their own way as we are.