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There oughta be a law!
Welu:
--- Quote from: Barmymoo on 20 Oct 2012, 13:07 ---I pronounce it maffs, which might be easier to say?
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I used to do that but I'd get heavily mocked for it. Rather irritating because I'm from an area where it's not uncommon for it to be said that way. It's just that my accent isn't common.
TOBAL that if you're talking to someone with an unfamiliar accent, I am personally grand with it if you ask something to the effect of, "Where are you from?" (Not that everyone is okay with that question, so mind that.) However when I answer, "I'm from here." it is annoying to say, "Well, where are your parents from?" or even worse, "No. You can't be." and then when I go on to say I've lived here all my life, as in this one town, it is not okay for you to argue with me that I must be lying or have some kind of foreign aspect to my family line.
Jace:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 20 Oct 2012, 12:38 ---maths.ox.ac.uk!
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This is hilarious
Omega Entity:
--- Quote from: Welu on 20 Oct 2012, 13:37 ---
--- Quote from: Barmymoo on 20 Oct 2012, 13:07 ---I pronounce it maffs, which might be easier to say?
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TOBAL that if you're talking to someone with an unfamiliar accent, I am personally grand with it if you ask something to the effect of, "Where are you from?" (Not that everyone is okay with that question, so mind that.) However when I answer, "I'm from here." it is annoying to say, "Well, where are your parents from?" or even worse, "No. You can't be." and then when I go on to say I've lived here all my life, as in this one town, it is not okay for you to argue with me that I must be lying or have some kind of foreign aspect to my family line.
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Would it be appropriate to ask you where your accent comes from, then?
jwhouk:
TOBAL about people who derail threads with Maths! ;)
Welu:
--- Quote from: Omega Entity on 20 Oct 2012, 14:12 ---Would it be appropriate to ask you where your accent comes from, then?
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Sort of. It's a fair enough question but my genuine answer is that I don't know. I'm told my accent is American, sometimes English, even though I've lived in the same Northern Irish town all my life and both my parents and one brother are Irish, my other brother was also born in this same town. There's no environmental reason I can see why my accent is so different compared to the rest of my family. I use all the same terminology and local slang as them.
I'm not that bothered by the question itself, it's the existence of follow up questions that bug me. It's almost always the exact same discussion when I meet a new person and it gets frustrating.
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