how your accent changes when you get around your family.
Today we went out to my Aunt Kim's for her homemade lasagna (Jennifer, I know you're jealous). It was my family of six, my parents, my aunt and uncle and their daughter and her friend, and my cousin and her husband.
We had a great time laughing and cuttin' up. My cousins friend is from New York, and I never would have known except she said, "Yoos Guys." I stopped her right there and asked where she was from.
She really has assimilated well, but the "yoos guys" gave her away.
However, I realize that when I am around my family, that south-east Texas accent comes blaring out of my mouth with no hope for retrieval. It is good that I am with my family. If I were with some other friends I would be totally ragged on, but this is family. Where one can sit comfortably saying: fixin' and goin' and gonna.
Texas has many different accents, each as unique as the other, but of course I love the south east Texas accent. Anyone heard speaking it is recognizable at once, and it brings joy to my heart to hear it.
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The accent also comes out of me when I'm very tired or very angry.
Handsome just shakes his head at some of the things I say.
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