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Originally Posted by SolRaven
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!
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i know the feeling! when i speak in another language for a long period of time, it's like i can't get back into speaking the local language again, and i have to stop for a bit and let my brain catch up
