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JDInteractive said:


I guess we consider the "Southern Accent" to be our version of your cockney accent. It's often looked down on.

I find it charming, but being that I had a less than stellar experience growing up in the south, it also sometimes gives me full body shivers.


Ok, it does often times does that.
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Imago said:

JDInteractive said:


I guess we consider the "Southern Accent" to be our version of your cockney accent. It's often looked down on.

I find it charming, but being that I had a less than stellar experience growing up in the south, it also sometimes gives me full body shivers.


Ok, it does often times does that.
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You're struggling with your edits there aren't you?!

JDInteractive said:

dan how do you not have an accent, since you grew up there?

evenstar said:

When I was in 10th grade I went to a upper-middle class, relatively mixed race school, where having a strong southern accent was frowned upon (I know this is shocking as it was still a school in the deep south right?).

Anyhoo, I purposefully mimicked accents that I heard on T.V. or albums. I actually copied the accent, if no the tone, of the lead singer of the Dead Milkmen

My current accent/voice/etc. used to be very deliberate. I assume that if I had stayed in Alabama I would have developed a southern accent as most of the folks I knew growing up, speak with a southern accent now, and my sister had one for a few years, until she married and moved to Tampa--it took about 2 years to get rid of.


Trust me Laurel--I had a plan early on in life.

I'm a huge fan of different accents. When I was in New York back in the day a cashier at Bloomys told me that she liked my accent. I said "Like, what are you talking about." Right when I said it, I realized.....I'm a valley girl.