in article , Emmanuel Gustin at
wrote on 2003/11/03 11:31:

His cowboy reputation has less to do with his accent (I wouldn't
recognize a Texas accent anyway) than with the...style of his
rethoric.

...one must assume that he does it on purpose....

And that's something else you don't know about Texas (and a lot of other
areas of the USA outside the cities). There's no perceived advantage in
being glib in the way that Europeans and US city folks seem to use as a
measure of one another.

Plus a whole 'nother style of "conspicuous consumption" that also doesn't
translate well.



Jack