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BeggingTurtle
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02 Jan 2017, 3:04 am

JimSpark wrote:
I grew up close to the U.S.-Canada border, and picked up a Canadian accent

Same here. My family moved to America early in my life and adapting an accent made me very impressionable to getting an accent. Honestly Canadiens and Americans sound the same, just different vocabulary and tonal fluctuations.


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02 Jan 2017, 3:10 am

I'm a sponge for accents as well. Sometimes it can come out funny because I suddenly lose control over my mouth, and it all becomes exaggerated. Usually happens with too much stress.


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02 Jan 2017, 3:17 am

I speak French with a regular Quebec accent, and my English is French-accented as well, but apparently I sound very robotic and monotone when I speak English.

I'm from a working class background and my French still has the inflections of the lower classes, even though I went to college and most students who have them, lose them and adopt a more "neutral" way of speaking.

I've often tried to imitate the cadence and variations in pitch of English, but I just can't do it. My voice stays flat no matter what and when I try to add inflection it sounds stilted and unnatural. Not that there are no inflections in French, but as a whole the rhythm tends to be flatter. Add to that the stereotypical Asperger flat voice and my English speech is probably flat as the Netherlands.


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02 Jan 2017, 12:20 pm

I pick up accents by accident. Irish, Welsh, American, posh, broad Scots, whatever I hear, I pick it up. It can be embarrassing at times, but has occasionally been very useful - being able to mirror a middle class or working class accent has gotten me through a few situations.



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02 Jan 2017, 12:30 pm

I never pick up accents


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02 Jan 2017, 2:19 pm

When I heard a recording of my voice when I was a little girl, I sounded as though I had an English accent. (I'm actually of German ancestry, so maybe some of my European accent stuck even though I've lived in California since I was three.)



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02 Jan 2017, 6:01 pm

I accidentally pick up accents, especially after listening to somebody talk for long periods in that accent. It can be embarrassing if I cannot drop the accent in the short term, but I lose it after a while.


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02 Jan 2017, 10:52 pm

Also, I have different accents for different emotions. This is not something I try to do, but it just happens. If I'm nervous, I have an RP accent; if I'm scared or angry, I have a Scottish accent etc. It makes me worried that there's something wrong with my personality, having a different accent attached to each emotion.


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