<p>I haven't visited yet, so I haven't had the chance to speak to Rice students, but is the Southern accent pretty dominant around campus? Will I end up with a drawl by the end of the first semester?</p>
<p>no southern accents are not dominant-people talk normal here. Despite the Northeastern stereotype of Texans as Horse-riding Cowboys who eat BBQ (okay i got to admit yes BBQ is good here) , none of it is true.</p>
<p>Houstonians don't have a southern accent or even a Texas drawl. Some Texans from other cities/towns might, though. But you will definitely hear people say y'all. And you will most likely pick that up pretty quickly yourself!</p>
<p>Haven't heard a single Texan/Southern accent here (yet?). But, the "y'all" does grow on you, I have to say. I caught myself saying it a couple times the other day, hahah. And I'm from the Northeast. Who would've thought...</p>
<p>Thanks for the responses.</p>
<p>Btw- hotasice... Britney Spears fan?</p>
<p>"Y'all," as a word, gets an unjustifiably bad reputation. Nearly every other language in the world has a second-person plural pronoun that is distinguishable from the second-person singular. Why shouldn't we? Y'all is such a tremendously useful word.</p>
<p>My sister dated a man from Cleveland who said "yous guys". I'll take ya'll over that any day.</p>
<p>"Y'all" is glorious, and don't deny it. I've heard rumor that I develop a twang when inebriated and I've got one friend with a pretty distinctive drawl but that's it. You'll definitely hear some accents, but a southern one won't be the most common by a long shot.</p>
<p>Yesssssir, I like Britney.</p>
<p>LMAO don't judge me. As messed up as she is, she is indeed making a comeback with "Womanizer." Maybe it's time for a username change... just kidding. </p>
<p>You're actually the first person to notice that, hahahah, good job.</p>
<p>I've sort of inexplicably picked up a midwestern accent since I came to Rice, though I do also say "y'all" now.</p>
<p>Yeah but what do you guys do about the Indians? And how much does it cost for a hitching spot for a horse per semester?</p>
<p>they give the seniors priority for the hitching posts, but if there are any left there's a lottery for them. the rice police department is pretty good about keeping the indians under control, although a few weeks ago they had a powwow in the academic quad that got kinda out of control...</p>
<p>I'm a native Texan, and my husband, who I met while we were students at Rice, is from Milwaukee. The first time I talked to his mom on the phone, I got done chatting with her, handed the phone back to my now-hubby, and heard his mom say, "Why doesn't she have an accent??"</p>
<p>The Texas accent is far over-stereotyped; most of the people who live in larger cities have fairly standard American accents. I've only developed a drawl so that the contractors I work with will actually listen to me (little city slicker girl knows nothing about construction!)-- I'm usually one of those weird ducks who use words like "effervescent" and "indubitably" in casual conversation.</p>
<p>Most people in Houston don't have a drawl whatsoever. (But y'all is tremendously useful.)</p>
<p>PS- We repel the Indians by threatening to make them join the MOB.</p>
<p>If you have to ask, you can't afford it.</p>
<p>Nah, Greenbriar isn't all that expensive. It's really out of the way and not regularly patrolled by RUPD, but it's theoretically affordable.</p>
<p>For what it's worth, I definitely have friends who park illegally in Greenbriar and haven't been ticketed (yet).</p>
<p>They'll tow you if you're obviously parked illegally for too long, though...leaving my car in the Martel "lot" overnight was a bad move that put me down $80.</p>