Unique traits about yourself

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Let's post some unique traits about your personality here.
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My speech is very wide-varying, it comes from various parts of the world. I tend to use a lot of Southern American, British and Australian English in addition to my normal American English speech. Words like 'loo', 'whilst', 'mah', 'ahm', etc.

Similar to above, I combine phrases and slang. I also make up rhyming phrases that make no sense, but have a rhythm that echoes a song. For example, the name of the US VP, Joe Biden reminds me of that Doors song "Mojo Risen". I never know whether this is AS or stupidity...

I love doing stuff like that. Funny images result, such as Joe Biden in Jim Morrison clothes.

Free association is a talent of mine that has helped me solve lots of problems. When I worked in the bookstore, people thought I was a mindreader because I could find the book they were looking for when all they could remember was it had a red cover and the word "They" in the title.

I have a very weird laugh, it sounds like a chicken on steroids.

And here I thought I was the only one to do that! Sometimes I also like to mix the spelling of my words too so that sometimes I will use the British English version of a word and sometimes the American spelling. I also like to use archaic words sometimes because I find them interesting.

I tend to like to collect words and incorporate them into my vocabulary. If I read or hear a word I haven't come across before, I will usually look it up and see what it means and how to use it in a sentence. After that, I will try to incorporate it into my writing and speech for a while. It's almost like I have a word of the day or week, if you will.

I tend to stop everything and just look at something, like outside the window, or look at myself in the mirror. For a long time. Contemplating.

I do too. I got teased a lot in school for it.
Oscillating fans tend to hypnotize me.

I'm completely unremarkable. No, really.

Although I have live in one area for most of my life, I have wandering accent syndrom (WAS) which ranges far afield.

Do you pick up the accents from other people? Or media? Can you do an American accent?

If someone is talking in a particular accent, I will find it hard not to copy them. As to whether I can do an American accent, what is the 'American' accent? I can do the general 'Hollywood' accent, New York (or New Jersey), southern States, and a bit of Boston. I just hear accents in public or on TV and know how to speak like that. When I was younger, I used to tell jokes in 'American' because that's how I heard them.
I can do a few impressions too.

I might want to change my uniqueness to: I can copy things. Further explanation may be required... I can draw existing images quite well, I can recreate existing music (using software), I can write in an author's style, and I can deliver lines from my favourite shows with the same timing and nuance as the actors.

Last edited by MisterSpock on 12 Sep 2012, 4:55 pm, edited 3 times in total.

By outward appearances, I am a stocky young boy with dirt blonde hair, rosy cheeks and canyon dimples. In reality, I'm pushing twenty, and planning on embark on the journey which I call my post-high school education. I am aspiring to be a fiction writer, and many people compliment me for my skill. Speaking of writing fiction, I have a peculiar habit of getting into the heads of my characters. Even the villains.

Blimey ! You're another Peter Sellers ! !! You should be on stage, or in films.
(By "American Accent, I meant the one Hugh Laurie does on House.)

I know who won the World Series from 1970 onward.