> > Is it only me, or do most people not think of the
> > way they speak as an accent? The way I
> > speak is, to me, "normal," and anything else is
> > an (unbelievably cool) accent. Have we talked
> > about this here before?
> >
> > Gri"day jah voo"shny
>
> Sure. Every accent I don't hear every day is weird and freaky. And cool. All at the same time.
>
> winter""mute

Gee, now I'm all curious about what my California 'accent' sounded like. ;)

It's too bad, really. Using mirrors you can see yourself as others see you, but even with microphones and recording devices, simply because of the way your brain is taught to regard one mode of speech as 'normal', you can never really hear yourself as others hear you.

Sosi"that seems important, but I don't know why"qui