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Pittsburgh, PA. By now you should have learned that... after the superbowl anyway.

Well, I don't really know. I lived in Oklahoma for a year and a half and there they only commented on the fact that I spoke too fast. Now living here I can talk fast again, but only when I'm not at work. Trying to teach ESL (english as a second language) students, I have to really slow down. That is hard for me to do.

Otherwise I don't think I sound any different.

Congrats on your good grade neonibbles!



Trust some one who is married to a Texan and spent several years working with tourists (in Las Vegas that means people from EVERYWHERE else) ... Mo who was born and raised in California does NOT have a Texas accent. She may seem "accented" to those who learned English where English was born, but around texas accents, she is not one of them, not to mention Texas is a quite large state (267,000 square miles) and the western part where she lives is not the part of Texas where the really heavy accents are.
It was funny to see Barbie post about living in Oklahoma and being told she talked fast... when Jim was in the Marines and went home on leave hs mother complained that HE had begun talking fast, and as a person who has spent her whole life in the west I certainly would not consider him a fast talker rofl

In my humble opinion, even Jerry Hall has more accent than Mo and yet "Jee-um" scoffed at Jerry Hall when she was on a show here in the US last year... to him she does not sound like Texas anymore rolleyes
I have spoken to Mo on the phone several times as well, so I guess I am pretty used to her voice and the lack of accent. ninja
Even my little guy says "Ya'll" sometimes because of Jim and his grand dad both being from Texas. (not to mention the fact alot of young men anymore seem to like to affect that word to sound more like someone like eminem or other rapppers and people the teenage boys like. I crack up whenever I hear my older son say it, as he like me was raised in So Cali and NV and has been stationed in Korea for a few years now... I suppose he thinks he picked it up being stationed in El Paso TX rolleyes so I am surprised he did not come home this time with a Korean accent!)

BUMP rofl