How Africans Are Changing French – One Joke, Rap and Book at a Time

Re:How Africans Are Changing French – One Joke, Rap and Book... by strken on Monday December 18, 2023 @07:44AM (#38681674)

I have a friend who grew up in Australia, who's from a state capital while I'm from the country, and he once said that I sounded "more Australian" on the phone to my family than I do while taking to cosmopolitan Australians. I think a lot of us subconsciously suppress our accents and vocabulary when we're not around the exact dialect we grew up with.

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Re:How Africans Are Changing French – One Joke, Rap and Book... by CTDOCodebases on Monday December 18, 2023 @04:11PM (#38688339)

I do this too but I think it works a little differently. I would say that we unconsciously tailor the way we talk to align ourselves socially with others.

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