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Where do we get our accents?

  • 14-12-2012 4:15pm
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    How do people pick up accents?

    I have a very different accent to everyone I know. its different than my parents, friends, old friends and the people where I live (and was raised).

    Is there any reason I would have a different accent, I have no idea where it came from. Its much posher sounding than most accents. It still sounds like a Dublin accent but different from all the other Dublin accents. Its like a typical south side accent, with a bit of bland American and British.

    I now have some friends who have a kind of similar accent, but I think its kind of put on, as when they get angry it turns quite common.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,500 ✭✭✭tac foley


    Being brought up in a household where four languages were spoken, and with a dad whose Cork accent would have soled boots, I nevertheless have no regional accent at all.

    Like many polyglots, I can imitate accents to perfection, and do. My Jamaican Rastafarian telephone answerphone message is still in use in one institute in which I was formerly employed.

    As for your accent - it did not appear out of the ether, but may have gradually crept up on you over the years as a way of improving your self-esteem. Not a bad thing, IMO. My everyday accent is redolent of the places in the world where I grew up and formed my knowledge of the language I speak most of all - English - here in UK and over in Canada, where we also HAVE to learn French. But already today I have had reason to use French and Welsh. My chaotic childhood is NOT reflected in my speech - in one sentence I can go from British public school to Ontario redneck, and often do. Nobody cares anyhow.

    tac


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