Originally posted by The17sss
It always weirds me out when someone of adult age (maybe it's just me, but this ALWAYS seems to be a female) goes to another part of the country and develops that different accent real quick. I remember even after 1 semester of college, seeing people come back to Florida from Alabama or Chicago or New York or wherever they went to school suddenly talking like they were native to those places. To me it suggests they are highly impressionable and still lack some sort of concrete identity (just my opinion). But yeah- what's up with that?
LOL, I've never known anyone who did that...
Quazar
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Originally posted by The17sss
It always weirds me out when someone of adult age (maybe it's just me, but this ALWAYS seems to be a female) goes to another part of the country and develops that different accent real quick. I remember even after 1 semester of college, seeing people come back to Florida from Alabama or Chicago or New York or wherever they went to school suddenly talking like they were native to those places. To me it suggests they are highly impressionable and still lack some sort of concrete identity (just my opinion). But yeah- what's up with that?
That is odd. I'd fully expect people to pick up colloquialisms and what-not, but to actually pick up the accent? Odd.
Then again, I barely have a southern accent at all, so I don't know if it's changed since moving to LA since I already basically sounded like your average white guy in LA.
srussell0018
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Originally posted by Quazar
your average white guy in LA.
pkcRAISTLIN
Can’t say I really like it, but I am used to it. What I do hate is hearing aussie accents in American films/tv shows. makes me cringe.
Sushipunk
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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
Can’t say I really like it, but I am used to it. What I do hate is hearing aussie accents in American films/tv shows. makes me cringe.
It really sticks out, doesn't it :stongue:
The17sss
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Originally posted by Tasty Onions
LOL, I've never known anyone who did that...
It's the chicks I've seen it happen to in rapid fashion. It is odd, for real. , I've even seen a girl take a vacation for like a week or 2 and come back speaking with a noticeable difference. So weird. I have a guy friend that has been working in Europe for like 7 years now and is slowly morphing, but it's such a slow and gradual thing it's not "too" noticable... more like words, phrases, and slang than actual accent.
Edit: Selma's accent is sexy... she sounds like she has a sultry British accent. Nothing like Ontario!
Quazar
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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
Can’t say I really like it, but I am used to it. What I do hate is hearing aussie accents in American films/tv shows. makes me cringe.
A Kiwi is the same as an Aussie, right? And all Australians drink Fosters, I think? And eat bloomin' onions?
srussell0018
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Originally posted by The17sss
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Originally posted by enydo
Happymess
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Originally posted by The17sss
It always weirds me out when someone of adult age (maybe it's just me, but this ALWAYS seems to be a female) goes to another part of the country and develops that different accent real quick. I remember even after 1 semester of college, seeing people come back to Florida from Alabama or Chicago or New York or wherever they went to school suddenly talking like they were native to those places. To me it suggests they are highly impressionable and still lack some sort of concrete identity (just my opinion). But yeah- what's up with that?
I learnt English when I was 17/18, the first English I was exposed to was British English, my teachers were British, I picked up that accent and spoke it for years as it was all I knew.. after living in Canada for so long it sort of vanished, or maybe I suppress it.. it comes out here and there, and whenever I speak to a British person.
But I've never known that to happen to a native English speaker.
srussell0018
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Originally posted by Quazar
A Kiwi is the same as an Aussie, right? And all Australians drink Fosters, I think? And eat bloomin' onions?
100% accurate, but you forgot that they are all descendants of convicts and routinely have sex with kangaroos.
The17sss
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Originally posted by Happymess
I learnt English when I was 17/18, the first English I was exposed to was British English, my teachers were British, I picked up that accent and spoke it for years as it was all I knew.. after living in Canada for so long it sort of vanished, or maybe I suppress it.. it comes out here and there, and whenever I speak to a British person.
But I've never known that to happen to a native English speaker.
:p
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Originally posted by The17sss
Selma's accent is sexy... she sounds like she has a sultry British accent. Nothing like Ontario!
Don't change a thing! Also, bravo for learning a brand new language at 18
Lews
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Originally posted by Happymess
after living in Canada for so long it sort of vanished, or maybe I suppress it.. it comes out whenever I speak to a British person almost immediately.
But I've never known that to happen to a native English speaker.
I'm a native English speaker, and most of the time I speak with a normal PNW accent, but occasionally a word or syllable or whole sentence will come out with an Afrikaans accent. If I start taking to someone who isn't American, though, after a short period I just start speak with the Afrikaans accent. It's ing weird.
