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Topic: Have you ever been told you have a foreign accent?
Meta !PARAdoxiHw started this discussion 14 years ago#21,437
I've been told I sound British, Irish, Scandinavian, and indeterminably European despite the fact I was born and raised in the US. Has this ever happened to you?
Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 24 minutes later[^][v]#341,153
> I was born and raised in the US
Same here and I have been accused of having a British accent. The guy who thought I was British was a little derpy though, and I may have just confused him by using long words.
Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 26 minutes later, 51 minutes after the original post[^][v]#341,154
I've been told the same even though I live in a "less well off" area.
Falco !VYDDrUD3gc joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 18 minutes later, 12 hours after the original post[^][v]#341,291
When I moved to California people noticed I pronounce certain words differently. But usually I get "why don't you speak like a new yorker (as in NYC)" People forget New York is a whole state quite often.
squeegee !hbZVTk6JYc joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 7 minutes later, 12 hours after the original post[^][v]#341,293
No, i'm from texas. No one has ever mistaken my accent as "foreign," even in the UK everyone knew i wasn't a foreigner. Just a texan.
Of course over there everyone sounded funny.
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Anonymous K joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 1 minute later, 12 hours after the original post[^][v]#341,294
I'm British but people tend to think I'm Australian when I go abroad, especially Americans.
Anonymous G replied with this 14 years ago, 32 minutes later, 13 hours after the original post[^][v]#341,301
@previous (K)
This is probably just a personal hygiene problem.
Anonymous K replied with this 14 years ago, 2 minutes later, 13 hours after the original post[^][v]#341,302
@previous (G)
No. Apparently the accents are similar.
Anonymous G replied with this 14 years ago, 38 seconds later, 13 hours after the original post[^][v]#341,303
@previous (K)
What I mean to tell you is that you are probably a disgusting person.
Anonymous K replied with this 14 years ago, 22 minutes later, 13 hours after the original post[^][v]#341,308
Anonymous L joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 2 hours later, 16 hours after the original post[^][v]#341,318
nah, im english so have the default accent.
Dead !Pool7hVoC2 joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 5 hours later, 22 hours after the original post[^][v]#341,366
I can fake a few accents, but my normal voice is never mistaken for foreign. Out of the states California has a pretty neutral accent compared to the others.
Postmortem !!Qe8ScDbX+ joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 11 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#341,498
Once or twice, but never a specific country. Just like "where are you from?"
"Arizona?"
"No, where'd you get that accent?"
"what?"
I've also been told I sound like a faggot.
Anonymous O joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 15 hours later, 2 days after the original post[^][v]#341,664
Someone once asked me if I was from Liverpool.
Anonymous B replied with this 14 years ago, 11 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[^][v]#341,665