Loosing/Gaining Accents
Mr_Cape219
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Do people with specific accents from one place loose it in others? I mean, when I visited family in New Orleans, Louisiana I started picking up a slight southern accent. It took a week to fade back to my current accent. To those that had an accent one place, moved to a different place with different accents, did you loose your accent/adjust your accent to the current place?
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When I first started college in Central PA, I had a pretty thick NJ accent. By the time I graduated 4 years later, it was not as noticable. Now 16 years after I graduated I haven't really noticed.0
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When I first started college in Central PA, I had a pretty thick NJ accent. By the time I graduated 4 years later, it was not as noticable. Now 16 years after I graduated I haven't really noticed.
would you say you got used to it, or did you actually adjust your accent over time automatically?0 -
Just tighten it back up and you'll be fine. for realz.0
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I have lived in Sweden for over 10 years and have lost a reasonable amount of my original Australian accent, I now sound a lot more English, because Swedes learn British English, and I am one of those people who naturally mimics the way others talk. My Swedish accent is completely Stockholmian, (and that never chances), because that is the Swedish I learnt LOL. My Aussie accent comes back though when I spend time in Australia with my family and friends, but they all still say I have a weird English twinge there even then.0
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would you say you got used to it, or did you actually adjust your accent over time automatically?
I am not sure if this answers your question, but I will try. I think subconsciously, I started to mimic the people around me. I never changed anything on purpose.0 -
When I was younger I had a heavy Danish accent now I just sound English.0
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My ex-father in law, who barely speaks English started dating a German lady who had a very thick accent. After a year of dating her, and her showing him how to speak English...he has a German english speaking accent, while living in Arizona.
Funniest thing ever!0 -
when I lived in Brasil I would pick up strong Brasilian accent, even when I was speaking Polish (mother tounge) my family found it really funny, but it took my 3 months to get rid of it once I came back...0
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it depends on w long your there i think.
Ive been in america for a year now, and ive picked up the way they pronounce words differently.
eg coyote- i pronounce it ky-yo-tee
they pronounce it ky-yote
but people can still easily recognise im australian although i have found i no longer say "how ya gowin" lol
but when i go back home, it switches back straight away, its all about the people you are around0 -
I have a Southern accent, not just a Southern accent, but an Arkansas drawl and twang, I guess. lol Don't know how to explain it... you'd just have to hear it. Of course, I don't notice it... but when I moved to the Dallas area for awhile, I lost some of my accent according to my friends and family. Now, the Texans didn't seem to think I had lost it. But when I went back home to visit, my friends and family would say things like, "you talk so fast now"... LOL...
I've been back in southern Arkansas for a while now. It didn't take any time for my accent to come back.
When I go somewhere else, like another state, I'm always stopped. People always want to talk to me. Sometimes, I even get to get to the front of a VERY long line. For example, when I was in Hollywood, my niece and I got to bypass about 100 people because of our accents when we were in line for a restaurant.0 -
Yep but for me it happens without me knowing it. My wife says I adjust it in America so people can understand me better but I guess when I'm on the phone to my folks back in England I sound like Ozzy Osbourne.0
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I have a Texas/Oklahoma weird mix of drawl and twang. But when I'm talking to someone from somewhere else, I'm conscious of it and can tone it down to neutral. I've been told several times I don't really have an accent. Get me surrounded by my extended family, all from te same area, though and wooowheee! It's definitely there!
Or just get me really tired. Or drunk
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I had 20 addresses before I was 20 years old and I still find different accents creeping in depending on the accents of those that I am around. When I am with people with a British accent, my Brit comes out (or when I am really "directing traffic" drunk) and when I drove to Florida from Central New York, my southern accent came out somewhere south of Richmond. I usually have a nondescript Northeastern Accent.0
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When I first started college in Central PA, I had a pretty thick NJ accent. By the time I graduated 4 years later, it was not as noticable. Now 16 years after I graduated I haven't really noticed.
Where did you go?0 -
I've never heard anyone in America pronounce it "coy-yote". Are you sure?it depends on w long your there i think.
Ive been in america for a year now, and ive picked up the way they pronounce words differently.
eg coyote- i pronounce it cy-yo-tee
they pronounce it coy-yote
but people can still easily recognise im australian although i have found i no longer say "how ya gowin" lol
but when i go back home, it switches back straight away, its all about the people you are around0 -
yup, everyone here in oregon does it, it annoys the *kitten* outta me0
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it depends on w long your there i think.
Ive been in america for a year now, and ive picked up the way they pronounce words differently.
eg coyote- i pronounce it cy-yo-tee
they pronounce it coy-yote
but people can still easily recognise im australian although i have found i no longer say "how ya gowin" lol
but when i go back home, it switches back straight away, its all about the people you are around
LOL@coyote pronunciation.
Who says 'coy-yote' aside form crocodile dundee?
Ki-yo-tea.
Or Yotes for short. 'yo-oats'0 -
Do people with specific accents from one place loose it in others? I mean, when I visited family in New Orleans, Louisiana I started picking up a slight southern accent. It took a week to fade back to my current accent. To those that had an accent one place, moved to a different place with different accents, did you loose your accent/adjust your accent to the current place?
Some people pick them up easier than others. I have a theory that if you are good at singing, you're more likely to pick up accents. Those of us who are tone deaf don't pick them up as much.
I used to know a guy who had lived in New Jersey, Ireland and Georgia (the state). He had picked up and sort of melded all three accents. It was a very interesting result!0 -
madonna says this is possible0
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Do people with specific accents from one place loose it in others? I mean, when I visited family in New Orleans, Louisiana I started picking up a slight southern accent. It took a week to fade back to my current accent. To those that had an accent one place, moved to a different place with different accents, did you loose your accent/adjust your accent to the current place?
Some people pick them up easier than others. I have a theory that if you are good at singing, you're more likely to pick up accents. Those of us who are tone deaf don't pick them up as much.
I used to know a guy who had lived in New Jersey, Ireland and Georgia (the state). He had picked up and sort of melded all three accents. It was a very interesting result!
You know.. I think you're on to something. I fancy myself pretty tuned in my ears, and when I have even short dealings with visitors and customers I find my regular Californian accent changes a bit. I know if I visited a place were there is a differnt accent spoken I would pick it up easy. Heck, I already have a pretty spot on English accent from a friend I used to know. I taught him my Californian accent <not the surfer one. I live inland, not coastal> and he was pretty tuned in the ears too.0 -
Been in California 20 yrs...still sound like an Okie0
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I used to work in an Australian call center as Marketing Coordinator wherein our clients & some of our co-workers are Aussies. From my experience, despite working with them for over a year, I still hadn't gotten rid of my Spanish accent & every time I talk to some clients or suppliers on the phone, I always being asked from what country I am. No matter how hard I tried, still I couldn't stop my tongue from rolling the R's & Eh's from my vocabulary. Of course its a different story when they see me face to face.0
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Just tighten it back up and you'll be fine. for realz.
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When I moved back to the states from living in Thailand, I had an accent that fell somewhere between English and Australian, because I'd been surrounded by those people for so long and I'm a natural mimic as well. Took a few months to totally lose it.
When I visit my friends in England, I always come back with a little accent as well. Just one of those things. It tends to go away on its own though, so no big deal, I guess.
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In my 35 years, I have lived in both the midwest and the west coast, and never picked up any accent until I moved here to NE Wisconsin. Now I'm kinda sad to say I do have somewhat of a Northern Wisconsin accent.0
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I will forever be recognizably from Alabama. I sound like molasses.0
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I will forever be recognizably from Alabama. I sound like molasses.
:laugh: That's a great way to put it!0 -
I had this problem doing customer service over the phone. I'd speak to someone with a southern accent or something and by the end of the call I'm talking like they are. Luckily they don't seem to notice as I'm not doing it to make fun of them, it happens subconsciously. If I watch a British movie, I'm in the accent all day afterwards. It annoys my family, oh well. >.<0
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I'm from the North East of England so I have a strange mackhem/geordie accent.
(Grew up in Sunderland where the mackhem accent comes from, but my parents are from Newcastle where the geordie accent is from).
My twin sister moved to Huddersfield for university, but luckily she didn't pick up a Yorkshire accent.
I like my accent and can't say it's ever really changed.
I do have a friend who stayed at home for university, yet because he was surrounded by a lot of Londoners and southerners, he's developed a rather posh accent!
I find that when I am with my sister though, I develop her mannerisms which I only notice once we are apart again.
I guess with us being twins we are very similar anyway, there's just small things like hand gestures that I pick up.0 -
I could not lose my Southern accent if I tried. And mine is worse than most people from North Carolina. My hubby is from Pittsburgh. He doesn't have that burgh accent though. He has almost a midwestern accent. But now when he goes home his family says he is picking up a southern accent. I don't notice it. To me, he still sounds like a yankee. Although he does say "y'all" now. I never heard him say yinz which is the Pittsburgh from of y'all.0
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