RE: 'ow I spake
February 24, 2012 at 12:08 am
(This post was last modified: February 24, 2012 at 12:09 am by Cyberman.)
It's interesting what you accept as ordinary or even instinctive when you're brought up with it. As a nominally-relevant example, I have two aunts who are identical twins. Everyone I know outside the family cannot tell them apart when they're together, yet I have never had any trouble - I can tell at a glance. I suppose it's similar to distinguishing between all these accents and dialects. Conversely, other than certain distinctive accents, I find it hard to tell American accents apart; at least to the extent that a native speaker would be able to.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
