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Originally Posted by Carriebear
Ooh, a place for ranting!
... actually I just have one, at the moment. I live in an apartment with 2 other women, and one of them insists upon, with her boyfriend, constantly talking in the loudest, most obnoxiously fake "British" (we're in good old Georgia, USA) accent I've ever heard. They keep this up for hours, and it's about to drive me bonkers. I've had to stop myself a couple times from saying Do you guys never talk NORMAL?
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I think the volume would bother me more than the accent. One time when I was working in Staten Island, NY I started talking with a fake southern accent because 2 of my co-workers had just moved from there. Everyone couldn't believe how down pat I had the accent. I informed them that my parents are from the Carolinas so, I grew up hearing it from them and my relatives.
After doing it for over an hour, I tried to stop talking w/ a southern accent... and I couldn't! I was stuck! Of course then they started laughing at me. So I stopped talking to "reset" my brain. It was the weirdest thing. I had no idea that was even possible. Needless to say, I never talked w/ an accent for that long of a period ever, again!