I've lost my native accent...

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The Kind Cannibal

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I havn't lost my distinct Alabamian/Floridian accent, I manage to talk like a New Yorker for 3 seconds before reverting to what people call, "redneck surfer."

I don't think it can be a permanent thing.
 

kits456

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You pick up the accent from the way you learn to speak not your nationality.
Kukul post=18.73341.797520 said:
i have no idea what kind of accent i have. im polish, but my pronounciation is good so i dont sound like ivan drago from "rocky 4". my english teachers were both americans and english and i talk to both english (usually irl) and american (usually when online) people.
i think that the language i speak is american with no particular accent.
or is it something else?
You pick up the accent from the way you learn to speak not your nationality. So if at a young age you learned Polish and stuck with it(like me) it'd be some what prominent depending on how you developed. I.e., speaking Polish or English.
 

Monkfish Acc.

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ThaBenMan post=18.73341.797516 said:
Monkfish Acc. post=18.73341.796570 said:
Are you telling me you've never heard a cosmopolitan accent?
Well, it's kinda difficult to explain. I speak sort of like a robot, but with more human emotion and different pitches. That's entirely wrong, but it's the closest I can get to it.
Is that anything like a trans-atlantic accent? (the way they talk in old black and white movies, sorry, I can't really think of how to explain it)
No, not really. It's sort of like an english/american cross, but more blank. It actualy gets mistaken frequently for one or the other, but for some reason people seem to be more willing to accept it.
I find this odd because it actualy sounds more posh than both of them, and therefore seems more likely to offend the stupid.
 

PedroSteckecilo

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I'm from Western Canada, hence I have a combination Canadian-American Midwest Accent with some british slang thrown in there.