Nooooo...:hand:I'm a Texan and I say "excuse me" instead of "do wha" LOL!
I also no longer say "fixin to"....after many, many years of practice....So please don't think it's an all Texan dialect, saying, habit, whatever...it's just an individual preference and/or what someone has grown accustomed to saying...regardless of the state in which they reside.
While this has nothing to do with HD, I'll admit... I just hate to be portrayed as a cowboy (or girl - lol) hat wearing, broken english speaking, girl from Texas who rides horses, lives on a ranch, works for an oil company (ok---so I do) who's son plays football (he did) while his sister is a cheerleader...(although some of these characteristics do fit-LOL) :innocent:
Maybe because I am a Texas transplant from Oklahoma...but having lived in Texas longer than Oklahoma, I consider myself a Texan.
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Hope you didn't think my "fixin to" post was a jab at Texans. I love my friend and find her use regional slang endearing. My Mom is from Missouri. She says (bar-ee) for borrow, lol. Anyway, I'll leave it alone : )
You know what? I'm from Tennessee and I gon't think anyone should ever apologize for their dialect or their accent. I had lots of transplanted northern college professors who used to lecture us about how we needed to lose our "Southern-ese" or we would never amount to anything. How ridiculous! That idea might work on teenage college students, but as an adult I'm offended by it.
Every area of the country has local speech patterns, north/south/east/west, and using those patterns and accents doesn't equal less intelligence or less education. Some of the most brilliant writers/minds/politicians we've ever had were basically country people who never apologized for their backgrounds.
In this case, if BD and SA sound rather stupid it isn't due to their accents or their colloquial speech. Stupid is stupid in any language. :crazy: If a story has holes in it, someone can sound like a great orator and still be a liar.
ETA: And anyone who would judge "all Texans" on these folks is jumping to conclusions, although there are certainly actual cowgirls in Texas and rednecks too, as there are in any state of the union.