Do other people switch accents when talking to people of their own background?
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no?
when i speak russian it turns into a full on russian accent
but that's a language change
When I'm speaking to Indian people and they don't want to speak Hindi or Telugu or Tamil or whatever I just speak English at them the way I did in India. With an Indian accent.
Do other people switch accents when talking to people of their own background?
My friend is black and whenever he is talking to most people he speaks like a white person but if he's talking to another black person he switches into gangsta speak.
Do other people switch accents when talking to people of their own background?
My mom does this. When she's with family or talking to an islander she gets this caribbean islander accent going on. Then when she's talking to everyone else it's her normal accent.
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I thought that was more of a 15 year old girl thing
no?
when i speak russian it turns into a full on russian accent
but that's a language change
http://www.amazon.com/Joy-Lex-Amazing-Amusing-Words/dp/1861053991
This is a pretty awesome book if you want to learn a bunch about this kind of stuff
yeah I switch accents when I switch languages
When I'm speaking to Indian people and they don't want to speak Hindi or Telugu or Tamil or whatever I just speak English at them the way I did in India. With an Indian accent.
nobody
"speak english at them"
hahahah
My friend is black and whenever he is talking to most people he speaks like a white person but if he's talking to another black person he switches into gangsta speak.
Doberdiyeeen
do you say "hella"
my cousins say that a lot
My mom does this. When she's with family or talking to an islander she gets this caribbean islander accent going on. Then when she's talking to everyone else it's her normal accent.
Steam
only ironically
i make so much fun of him
so much fun
I have a friend from Cali, she says hella all the time. I would hang out with her a bunch now I ifnd myself saying hella.
Steam
i haven't quite adopted it into my speech yet but i have dropped it once or twice
i'm not sure this is a good thing
P.S. There totally is a northwest accent. we drop the ends of our words. It's like we're too lazy to finish them, each and every one.
not sure what exactly that entails
and "been" more like "ben" instead of "bin"
other than that I have a non-discernible american accent
Howard Hughes
He paid his execs their bonuses tax free by spreading lies about them after they quit, then they'd sue, then He'd settle out of court for their bonus.
whoops
But really I was in Oxford for three weeks and by the second week no one could tell I didn't usually talk with a British accent.
I am also a pro at HongKongnese, Singlish, and Chinglish.
Oh man Singlish is a league of its own.
i thought sino = chinese so isn't that redundant??
It entails having the most unflattering accent in the whole fucking world
talking out your nose, dude
It's probably due to growing up bilingual
I, on the other hand, pick up and speak other languages pretty easily but when I'm speaking english I can't put on any other accent
I am just following my own precedent at this point
goddamn that is hardcore indie dude
that is like wearing six thousand scarves
lost it pretty quick though
now i can only do an overt cariacture of it
if I tried to do an irish accent I would just end up saying "tree" instead of "three," that is all I remember from the movie once and going to ireland
seriously
fields of that magnitude are usually only generated outside the CD press for a new Decemberists album
bowtied, you've spent time in Ireland? Where'd you go?