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 From:  patch  
 To:  Ken (SHIELDSIT)     
39798.55 In reply to 39798.48 

I think you'd be surprised. It took less than a year and a half in Australia for my already confused accent to start changing. Nearly a year after I got back to the UK, people still thought I was an Australian. Which was annoying, as I thought I was sounding more and more British the longer I stayed in Oz.

 

Mind you, I met a couple of ten-pound tourists in Vancouver who had been there for nearly 40 years but who still sounded like they'd just popped over from Liverpool and Essex. The poor sods.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 From:  Linn (INDYLS)  
 To:  patch     
39798.56 In reply to 39798.55 
I had a friend that moved to Dominican Republic. She visited after two years and had developed a Spanish accent. Which was weird because she couldn't say more than "hola" IN Spanish.
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 From:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)  
 To:  Ken (SHIELDSIT)     
39798.57 In reply to 39798.48 
My accent shifts within hours when I'm talking to people. It is beyond my control.
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 From:  Linn (INDYLS)  
 To:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)     
39798.58 In reply to 39798.57 
I have that affliction too. And I'm always embarrassed when I realize I'm doing it - afraid that someone will think I'm mocking them.
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 From:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)  
 To:  Linn (INDYLS)     
39798.59 In reply to 39798.58 
Yeah people often think I'm mocking them but it just happens.

I think it's because we're PEOPLE PEOPLE, Lindy.
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 From:  Linn (INDYLS)  
 To:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)     
39798.60 In reply to 39798.59 
YES! That is so true. After all, there are so many other reasons to mock people - why would anyone pick on an accent?
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 From:  Ken (SHIELDSIT)  
 To:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)     
39798.61 In reply to 39798.57 
Mine does that when I go south. After living in VA and FL for a few years I was back into talking lazy like they do. Do you think I still sound southern?

I never picked up the accent from ND though.

And besides, stop sticking up for Madonna. She's a cunt.


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 From:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)  
 To:  Linn (INDYLS)     
39798.62 In reply to 39798.60 
Exactly. Like liking poptarts for example.
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 From:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)  
 To:  Ken (SHIELDSIT)     
39798.63 In reply to 39798.61 
I'm not defending Madonna. Though I would. Insofar as back in the 80s she was cool. She's not currently on my radar, so to speak, so I don't care.

And yes you do sound pleasantly southern. Not entirely southern, just a bit of that going on.
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 From:  milko  
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39798.64 

I've got the accent sponge thing a bit too. I've tried very hard to resist picking up too much southern though. I'm not going to start saying grarse or barth or anything, ew.

 

It's most embarrassing talking to foreigners and adopting their slightly broken English. What a pisstake!

 

I think this might be the most famous sufferer - former England football manager goes to work in the Netherlands and adopts comedy Dutch accent for interviews.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhtq1ObGHy8


milko
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 From:  99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)  
 To:  graphitone     
39798.65 In reply to 39798.54 
So the whole of the UK needs to move the the home counties (except Romford), and we can expect an improvement in the general enunciation of the nation! Nice!

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 From:  99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)  
 To:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)     
39798.66 In reply to 39798.59 
Actually, you're just easy hos (metaphorically speaking!).

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 From:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)  
 To:  99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)     
39798.67 In reply to 39798.66 
You're lucky that was a metaphor otherwise I'd be teaching you a lesson in manners, young man :Y
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 From:  Manthorp  
 To:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)     
39798.68 In reply to 39798.67 
What is a meta for anyway? I hate those metas. They think they're above everything else.

"We all have flaws, and mine is being wicked."
James Thurber, The Thirteen Clocks 1951

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 From:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)  
 To:  Manthorp     
39798.69 In reply to 39798.68 
It's just like a less extensive plateau.
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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)  
 To:  Manthorp     
39798.70 In reply to 39798.68 
Your confusing them with the ubers.

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 From:  Manthorp  
 To:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)     
39798.71 In reply to 39798.70 
I always do that. But at least I've got the paras by my side.

"We all have flaws, and mine is being wicked."
James Thurber, The Thirteen Clocks 1951

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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)  
 To:  Manthorp     
39798.72 In reply to 39798.71 
You can never have too many paras. Um, I mean should. Should never have.

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 From:  Manthorp  
 To:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)     
39798.73 In reply to 39798.72 
You can be open here. You are with friends.

"We all have flaws, and mine is being wicked."
James Thurber, The Thirteen Clocks 1951

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