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Method of Madness:
--- Quote from: nekowafer on 15 Jan 2013, 16:31 ---how certain words are said.
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Wait, isn't that what an accent is? :?
nekowafer:
I meant that I only pick up on a few words as opposed to a general accent.
Redball:
My wife took her Detroit friend to Nashville, and her family called the visitor "MAY-ree." I still call her that sometimes.
I might have told it on some thread here: In the Army in my early 20s, I was stationed in South Dakota. Home on leave to NYC suburbs, I dated a girl from the Bronx for a week. I went back to my post with a Bronx accent -- which I enjoyed, and which lasted about 48 hours. My native accent was Michigan, but I picked up a little NY in 4 years of high school there. But only a little, until I dated that gorgeous girl.
henri bemis:
I unconsciously emulate accents, too, and it always makes me feel like a total knob. And it doesn't help that I'm terrible at accents, so it usually just sounds like I'm mocking people. And yet, everyone in my family has pretty strong NY accents that I didn't manage to inherit.
Zingoleb:
Define "NY" accent, 'cause there's a lot of them.
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