..you accidentally slip into somebody elses accent?The girl who makes my coffee is a Kiwi, and this morning she goes, 'it's gitting prutty hot, Bin.'
And then without even thinking I go, 'it sure uz'.
I momentarily lost control of my own dialect. How concerning. I then had to concentrate very hard to make sure I walked out of the cafe like an Australian, without inadvertently slipping in to the Haka.
Life is hard when you're so impressionable.
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I got stuck in a dodgy British accent on our honeymoon... for like two days.
I seriously couldn't shake it either, it was really, really weird.
sounds bleedin awful, guvna
I had a pretty good 2nd generation Australian/Italian accent going when living in the inner west of Sydney. Some dude in a greengrocer in Enfield was convinced I was from Calabria.
makes your coffee from what?
Enfield? That's where I used to live. Was that the grocer behind Flower Power?
ps- you're NOT from Calabria?
When we first moved overseas we spent more than a month in an orientation course run by a Swiss-German couple. I remember the voice in my head, as I read silently, sounding very Swiss-German and not being able to shake it for a while.
Ben. Indeed it was.
We were in Croydon Park for 3 years and used to spend lots of summer afternoons either having coffee at FP or at the Enfield Pool.
I naturally pick up other people's accents. I always worry that the people (from somewhere else) whom I'm with will think I'm making fun of them.
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