Faux Hickaccents

Yes.....I know. What the heck am I talking about? Well I'll tell you.

Ellen had George Lopez as a guest on her show today and it got my sister and I on the subject of accents. Now while I don't think that I have much of an accent I do have enough of one that it's obvious I am from the South, and when spending time with my family in Athens, to be more specific, from Texas.

Which got us on the subject of my brother. Now he was raised by the same parents. Yes my Dad has his words that are so obviously Texan but our mother did not sound at all like she hailed from Alabama. Or that she had lived in Texas for more then 20 years.

So why is it that my brother sounds like he was raised in a tiny East Texas town? I mean really? We were both raised in the same house by the same 2 people. Why is it that he chose to make himself sound this way? Aren't there many a Hollywood star and high powered executive that's gone to a lot of trouble to rid themselves of such accents? I mean even I have my words that just come out Texican. I hear it every time and try to catch it before someone else points it out and I become the butt of a joke. So it puzzles me that someone would choose to sound a certain way. That one would just adopt an accent out of the blue. And wouldn't it stand to reason that you would adopt one that would make you sound foreign? I mean why choose to sound like what is the butt of many a joke?

Now this is not to say that there's anything wrong with sounding like you are from Deep East Texas. That is not what I am saying at all. Many people come by it honestly and it sounds fine on them. But when adopted at the age of, oh, 17 or 18 it just sounds overdone and in the case of one that is related to me! DUMB! Now I've said this to him many times yet he insists that he came by it naturally. Ok so I was deaf the first 15-18 years of your life. Whatever!

So the whole point of this is to ask what you guys think? Is this something that you've encountered? And if so, does it bother you as much as it does me?

Almost forgot! Faux Hickaccents is the work of the ever clever Rene! LOL Not sure where she comes up with this stuff but nonetheless. She is the reason for this blog! Well.....You know what I mean!