Seltzer

That started out ok then devolved into some weird South African accent.

Is that a consequence of living in Guernsey? I have no idea what their accents sound like.

Also I seem to recall you mentioning that 100 Things that Pisses Me Off instead of Piss Me Off was vernacular.

On another forum, we uploaded soundfiles to boomp3.com and posted the links... but the recorded wavs need to be converted to mp3s first.



Anyway, I once upon a time had an Australian accent but it became NZified within a year or so of me moving here and now I have a pretty neutral mix of the two. Yet I had an Australian high school teacher who still retained his accent after living in NZ for 15 years.

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Urban Hat€monger ?

I don't have a Guernsey accent , thank god.




in other news...



garish

grocery mart

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Astronomer

lol wtf. Agayynn. Garish. I don't know what her accent is but it's definitely not British.

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Arya Stark

Hehe, true.

What I meant is... nevermind.

=P

You're right.

Tobias

in any case, I'd kill for an Irish accent...but I dunno if you can simply change your accent...would it be as simple as living in that area for a period of time, or what?

Astronomer

Pretty much your accent is determined by the earlier years of your life when you're brain is still developing. So if you're, say, 21 years old and move to Ireland I doubt you'd take on an Irish accent.

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Arya Stark

I'm pretty sure it's subconscious, though.

I don't think you can go somewhere and simply get the accent.

It's more that one spends so much time around people with a certain accent, that they speak like them because it's easier to converse.

Just like when a friend or someone you know well says something all of the time and you just adopt it because you spend so much time around them.

Like, everyone at my school says, "That's legit," when something makes sense.

Although I SAID IT BEFORE ANYONE AT MY SCHOOL and they all stole it.

Rawr.

But yeah.

>.>

Janszoon

It probably depends a bit on how old you are when you move there too. It seems like the younger a person is the more fully they pick up an accent of a place they move to.

Arya Stark

No I'm pretty sure it's possible.

I think my dad was older than twenty-one when he went to North Carolina.

Astronomer

It probably depends on the person. I have a friend who spent the first 15 years of her life in America. Now, she's been in Australia for 15 years but she still has the American accent.

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