I have a very, very thick inland Maine accent. On those few cases I've had to make long distance calls to places like Tennessee, Florida, Colorado, etc. I was unpleasantly surprised to find that they couldn't understand me. I don't know why, I could understand them, perfectly well. Maybe we're more cosmopolitan around here.
It's better if my voice remains forever unheard.
Oddly enough, I've been told I sound like I'm not from Texas, even though I've lived here for almost 60 of my 65 (nearly) years.
ReplyDeleteI blame television in my youth. Then again, it wholly depends on who I'm talking to as to how much accent I adopt.
The link is to the late Joe Perham's humor act. I've been told I sound like him though our speech patterns and subject matter are different. I don't think what I write would be accepted if heard in my actual voice.
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