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Re: picking up accents
Posted By: Brunnen-G, on host 203.96.100.85
Date: Thursday, October 4, 2001, at 16:50:50
In Reply To: Re: Thank you. posted by Grishny on Thursday, October 4, 2001, at 06:34:05:

> It matters not where you were born or how you
> were brought up to speak. If you go and live in
> the South for any appreciable amount of time,
> you WILL begin to talk like a Southerner. It
> seems unavoidable.

I was in Texas for less than a week once and I was *thinking*, let alone speaking, with a Texan accent after the first couple of hours. Aaargh. I never heard such an all-pervasive accent. Fortunately it wore off quickly after I left.

Brunnen-"it was worth it to visit the NASA control room and fiddle with the dials in a prototype space station, though"G

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