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enrico_dandolo
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19 Jun 2012, 7:53 am

My first language is French. I live in Quebec.

In French, I am said to have a French accent by Quebecers, and a Quebec accent by Europeans. In English, I am often said to have a British accent, which I take as a compliment because it's my second language, but still, it is not a Quebec English accent.



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19 Jun 2012, 12:20 pm

Keeno wrote:
If you have an autist accent, accent racism is an unfortunate problem that may occur.


What's that?



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19 Jun 2012, 3:10 pm

beneficii wrote:
Keeno wrote:
If you have an autist accent, accent racism is an unfortunate problem that may occur.


What's that?


This is what a friend calls it - his accent is an English/RP one but he isn't English and hates being labelled as English due to his accent.

He does have idiosyncratic/personal terms for things. But to try to describe accent racism it is where people think you have one accent, even though you have no connection with the place the accent is from, but people show discrimination to you because of the accent. Or, in my friend's case, he resents being associated with the country the accent's from.



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19 Jun 2012, 7:31 pm

OliveOilMom wrote:
I sound like Ellie Mae Clampett after a hard night of drinking.


That may just be the single funniest thing I have ever read on WP. If I had a hat on, I'd take it off to you, lady.


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19 Jun 2012, 7:35 pm

Kinme wrote:
Sometimes when I'm around someone who speaks English as a second language, their accent rubs off on me and then I start to speak more with their accent. I stayed with my Thai friend for like two weeks and noticed it.


Ditto. I think that's supportive of the Intense World theory. You get comfortable with a thing, and you don't have to filter it out.

My two cents.


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19 Jun 2012, 7:44 pm

Monotonous and yes, I use fancy words in my language. I also love starting off my sentences, with "Honestly" and "Seriously" alot.



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21 Jun 2012, 12:51 am

outofplace wrote:
I'd also ask if anyone else here gets enamored of new words and tries to use them when they learn them? I sometimes like employing archaic words that no one else uses just because they sound cool to me.


I do that often but it's quite unintentional. The other day at work, I said of a customer who was arguing with my manager, "She's just being obstinate." Maybe that's not the most archaic word to some people, but it is in southeastern New Mexico. :wink: Then today, my manager asked me something, and I replied, "Well, it's a bit superfluous." He just smiled at me. His wife is a psychologist and he "gets" me to a certain extent.