Re: CHAT: Being taken for a furriner ...

Mark P. Line wrote:

>Andreas Johansson said:
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>
>>I've been taken for a foreigner before, but that's always involved me
>>speaking
>>in a foreign language. Possibly, my recent one-year stay in Germany has
>>left
>>some mark on my Swedish, but the whole incident nonetheless seems somewhat
>>extraordinary to me.
>>
>>Anyone else here experienced something similar?
>>
>>
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>Are you kidding?
>
>I live in *Texas*. You know, the place where Chuck Norris is always right
>behind you, ready to pounce if you get caught doing anything Untexan.
>"Y'ain't f'm 'round here, are ya."
>
>(My speech is Midland, not South Midland: more like Kansas than like the
>rest of Oklahoma where I grew up.)
>
>
No, no.  Midlanders come from [b3:~mIN@m], and [cOvn=tr@i], and other
such places.  One of the more interesting accents of the world.
Especially the Birmingham one.  All the vowels seem to be nasalised.