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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 am a linguistic chameleon (for accents). I don't do it deliberately and often people think I am mocking them. normally I don't even notice when it starts, it can be extremely embarassing
