I still don't quite have a Wisconsin accent, but a night of hanging w/my friends who have southern accents, and I begin to hear it in my head as I'm speaking. I think it has to do w/my parents.
Then there was the time I wandered for days in Paris, taken in by the kindness of strangers. I unwittingly picked up a French accent after about 3 days.
I have a tendency to pick up an accent if I've been in the area long enough. (I'm trying like hell not to pick up the Rhode Island accent right now, but I hear it creeping in!) This is how I turned out with this one:
Not surprising at all! But I have a beef with the author. I don't drink from a water fountain or a drinking fountain, it's called a "bubbler" (pronounced bubblah) where I come from.
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which one I started with
Date: 2005-04-15 01:48 pm (UTC)Re: which one I started with
Date: 2005-04-15 02:04 pm (UTC)Then there was the time I wandered for days in Paris, taken in by the kindness of strangers. I unwittingly picked up a French accent after about 3 days.
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Date: 2005-04-15 02:55 pm (UTC)Your Linguistic Profile:
45% Yankee
35% General American English
15% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern
What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Not surprising at all! But I have a beef with the author. I don't drink from a water fountain or a drinking fountain, it's called a "bubbler" (pronounced bubblah) where I come from.
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Date: 2005-04-16 02:52 pm (UTC)