Do you pick up accents or local phrases easily?

TriceMarie

AMixedBag wrote: »

Although I do have a tendency to put an American thing to my voice sometimes when I've never even visited the place..?
I guess I've been watching too much movies.:o

I had a friend when I was younger,whos little brother spoke with a profound american accent!!!:eek:
It was wild like,none of them had ever been to America lol!

D-A-V-E

i heard that the rate in which an accent changes is all to do with how inteligent you are..some people might move to usa for 3 months and have a really strong accent and some might be living over there for 10 years and only have expressions that are american.

TriceMarie

D-A-V-E wrote: »

i heard that the rate in which an accent changes is all to do with how inteligent you are..some people might move to usa for 3 months and have a really strong accent and some might be living over there for 10 years and only have expressions that are american.

So if your accent DOES change,does that mean that you are intelligent??:p
*hopes hopes*:p

ejmaztec

TriceMarie wrote: »

So if your accent DOES change,does that mean that you are intelligent??:p
*hopes hopes*:p

Probably means that you're easily influenced.:(

Some people assume I'm from a completely different part of Ireland than I actually am.







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cantdecide

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Some people assume I'm from a completely different part of Ireland than I actually am.







:pac:

You sound like you're from the past... the recent past... like 2009ish.

cantdecide

cantdecide wrote: »

You sound like you're from the past... the recent past... like 2009ish.

It's my thread bump experiment

ConnyMcDavid

Wow what stupid questions people asked in AH back in 2009. Thankfully it has matured in the time since.

cantdecide

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It's my thread bump experiment

Fine. I'll take the bait.

I picked up the 'eh?' from when I lived in NZ. That's the only way I've debased my wonderfully neutral beautiful soft Irish accent.

I should probably have found a better thread to bump. I have absolutely nothing to add to this one. But please all of you do continue.

KevW24601

Hmm, if I do it means I've watched too much TV.

As a kid I had the habit of taking on the accent of whoever or whatever I admired the most at the time. My first teacher in primary school was from Yorkshire so I went through a period of a few years with a Yorkshire accent. Then I got into WWE then it took on that drawl. Then I became a rebellious teenager (accent wise) and took on my own. Mainly neutral with some bit of English / American affectations.

Well, I tell a lie. When Love / Hate was popular, my habit was to say "how-er yeh?". Then recently with Young Offenders it was all the Cork phrases and "Bai". Northside Cork is in the blood though so I'll let that pass.


Basically, I watch too much TV(!) :P

Wibbs

Phrases maybe, accents no. Seem to have taken after my dad. Before he married he lived all over the world for years at a time, but never developed an accent. He did absorb are specific local words. So after living in the States in the 50's for a couple of years, he continued to call estate cars "station wagons" and lifts "elevators". Though he hadn't the ear and capacity to imitate any accent but his own, so that could be much of it. I'd be the same.

IamtheWalrus

I think the lower the self-worth, the quicker the new accent. A sort of please don't exclude me from your tribe.