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To: Elsewhere who wrote (101323)	6/12/2003 6:56:25 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 281500

If you want to learn how to "talk Texan" I highly recommend "Texas Crude," written by Ken Weaver, formerly of the Fuggs, and illustrated by R. Crumb. Out of print, you'll have to find it used, but there are rumors it is being reprinted. Warning - not for the easily offended. humboldt1.com

To: Elsewhere who wrote (101323)	6/12/2003 7:13:26 PM
From: briskit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

There are nuances here in America, that we have difficulty distinguishing among our own sub-cultures, language and humor. It's similar in Germany. I remember travelling in a train in Europe, speaking mostly Schwaebisch, and was shocked to hear a northerner think it was Bayerisch. He couldn't distinguish what to me were radically different dialects. Of course, I had fits with Schweitzer Deutsch. I once couldn't understand a guy saying, "I lost my ski in this snow," which is not otherwise complicated German.