Re:Everyone Has an Accent
by lb1lf on Monday July 16, 2018 @05:27PM
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I happen to have a slight Scottish accent, despite never having lived there (or in any other country where English is the dominant language, for that matter.)
Reason is simply that when I was a kid, the house next door - the only house next door, this being rural Norway - was purchased by a family from Aberdeen, who'd decided to move to Norway to try something new.
If I wanted to play with their kids, I'd better learn some English fast - and the only speakers around were the Scottish kids next door.
Incidentally, I now go to Aberdeen for work on a regular basis, and the locals never fail to ask how long I've been living there, seeing as I've started to pick up their accent and all...
Reason is simply that when I was a kid, the house next door - the only house next door, this being rural Norway - was purchased by a family from Aberdeen, who'd decided to move to Norway to try something new.
If I wanted to play with their kids, I'd better learn some English fast - and the only speakers around were the Scottish kids next door.
Incidentally, I now go to Aberdeen for work on a regular basis, and the locals never fail to ask how long I've been living there, seeing as I've started to pick up their accent and all...