RE: Accent Tag! You're It.
March 13, 2012 at 12:15 pm
(This post was last modified: March 13, 2012 at 12:22 pm by Rokcet Scientist.)
(March 13, 2012 at 12:04 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Similarly, when I was overseas, I layed on the drawl thicker than my cousin Cletus. The females ate it up, I may as well have been dripping honey from my lips. Probably has something to do with that whole "sense of the exotic" that changes as quickly as you change state lines.
Yep, I find my accent automatically, and unconsciously, changes to accomodate the situation or company. And, like with e.g. tennis, my 'game' gets better or worse dependent on my 'opponent'. When I'm speaking English with a Pakistani or Argentinian, for instance, my English is almost as atrocious as theirs. But put me in a company with Oxford scholars and they'll peg me as from Cambridge...