Texas is many things to many people—a state the size of a medium-sized country; home to several idiot governors, one who became president, and a current one who thinks it’s a good idea for college students to openly carry firearms. To Donald Trump, Texas is the place where a "big, beautiful wall" should be built. To people in Norway, “texas” with a small “t” is a synonym for crazy, bonkers, out of control and wild. As in, that’s totally texas. Or in Norwegian: det var helt texas.
Texas Monthly discovered this hilarious (or humbling, depending on your perspective) piece of slang on a Tumblr page. The magazine accumulated several pieces of evidence that this is really a thing in Norway, and gave these examples:AlterNet
Norwegians Are Literally Using 'Texas' As Slang for 'Crazy' NowTexas' "wild west" reputation has gone global, and not in a good way.
Janet Allon
Ha. Politicians in British Columbia are totally texas.
ReplyDeleteNot to belittle the state or its people, but is there anything interesting about Texas? Has Texas ever produced anybody in the least bit interesting?
ReplyDeleteThe only notable Texans seem to be maniacs: Dubya, LBJ, Oliver North, Chuck Norris... All of whom are celebrated for some demented reason or other.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_from_Texas
ReplyDeleteMy favourites are J.R. Ewing and Hank Hill.