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There oughta be a law!
Redball:
Accents: I've spent most of my life in Michigan, minus a couple of years in India, three in the Army, though stateside, and four years in high school outside NYC. For years, back in Michigan, I was flattered when someone asked if I was from New York. I think I must have dropped R's, maybe as an affectation. It apparently ended; maybe from embarrassment. Later on, in choir, our director chastised us collectively for our Michigan aaaaan sound. It helps a singer to walk away from the chorus and listen. When I did, that "aaaa" sounded awful. Other than that, I have no accent, none at all.
Pubic hair: Curly little strands of lifeless keratin don't have little things clinging on for dear life?
Redball:
--- Quote from: Redball on 20 Oct 2012, 16:42 ---Pubic hair: Curly little strands of lifeless keratin don't have little things clinging on for dear life?
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Googling: Apparently not. Seems that nothing can be transmitted via toilet seat or at least it's entirely unlikely.
Lines:
Re: accents - It is completely possible to live somewhere and have an accent that is different from most of the people in the area! I have a friend who is from a small town in Texas and you'd think she'd never been to the south in her life based on her accent. Also her dad has one, but she and her sister don't really.
Redball:
--- Quote from: Linds on 20 Oct 2012, 17:59 ---Re: accents - It is completely possible to live somewhere and have an accent that is different from most of the people in the area! I have a friend who is from a small town in Texas and you'd think she'd never been to the south in her life based on her accent. Also her dad has one, but she and her sister don't really.
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Anyone care to speculate on how that happens?
Seems to me that if accents are the result of listening to those around you speaking, the "absence" of one, i.e., speaking with a different accent than those around you, must be the result of television or listening to another's speech and wanting to imitate it.
I might have related this in the forum: 2-3 years after high school in NY, I was stationed in South Dakota. I came home to White Plains for a week and dated a cute girl from the Bronx every night I was home. I went back to Rapid City with an accent I hadn't had when I left. It was gone in 48 hours. I was kind of sorry to see it go. Never saw it or the girl again.
It's my belief that U.S. television is gradually eroding language differences in the U.S..
Is it cold in here?:
One of my wife's friends suggested a law that whenever Clancy fans are caught talking about war as if it were a video game, they get drafted.
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