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Skriven 2015-02-06 14:08:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av DALE SHIPP
Ärende: Re: Accents
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-=> Quoting Dale Shipp to Nancy Backus on 02-04-15  00:33 <=-

 NB>> THe whole four years we lived in Mississippi, we were teased about our
 NB>> Yankee accents... we moved up to Philly, and were immediately teased
 NB>> about our southern accents...  ;)   One just can't win...  (G)

 DS> Much of the time, the locals (whereever they are) "don't have an
 DS> accent" but everyone from away does have an accent -- at least in their
 DS> mind. 

But of course.  ;)  When we first moved to Rochester, my sister was
talking with a few new friends at school... After finding out where
she'd come from (Philly), one of them said, "I've lived in Ratchster all
my life".  To which my sister innocently replied, "and then you moved
here...?" not knowing NOT to pronounce each syllable precisely... ;)  Of
course, she was the laughingstock of these noble Rochesterians... ;0

 DS> My sister pretty much grew up in Florida.  After she got married, they
 DS> moved to Brooklyn, then later to Ohio and finally back to Florida. 
 DS> Once when we visited her in Ohio, her accent was really a mixed up
 DS> combination of southern, Brooklyn and Mid-west.

Mine just stayed pretty fluid, picking up some bits from all over, and
never quite settling... I can pick up from people I talk to, or from
hearing something around me... it generally settles back into a fairly
unidentifiable accent if I stay put...  :)   But then, I also am highly
susceptible to speech patterns and vocabulary as well, so that helps
keep it fluid..  ;)  

 DS> Just days after we moved back from England Gail's mother died.  We
 DS> left our children with a friend while we went to Florida to settle up
 DS> the estate.  Our three year old daughter already had a British accent,
 DS> but when we came back it had morphed into a Bostonian one.  The mother
 DS> we left her with was from Boston.

I can relate.  :)  Born in Philly, lived first few months across the
river in Jersey, then moved to Wyoming before a year old for about a
year, then to DC area (Silver Spring MD) for the next 3... then to
Indiana before turning 5... Mississippi was two years later...  At 3
one's accent is easily malleable...  :)  Had you taken her with you to
Florida, she'd probably have picked that one up instead...  ;)

ttyl         neb

... Old bakers never die, you just can't get a rise out of them!

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