Over the weekend I went to my ten-year high school reunion, and I noticed something interesting when catching up with people. When I haven’t talked to someone in a long time, I forget that they speak with an accent. I guess it’s because I don’t remember their voice, and my brain fills it in with “accentless” Midwesterny broadcast English. Then they talk and I’m thinking “oh wow, you have a southern accent that I totally don’t remember1.” Which shouldn’t surprise me, most of these people spent most of their childhood in North Carolina.
1 Not that there’s anything wrong with that, I have one too
August 30, 9:14 pm
kippy, you have an accent too! or let me correct myself, you speak normal the rest of the regions have accents.
August 31, 8:26 am
You callin’ me a Midwesterny broadcaster?
August 31, 10:17 am
Kaylor- That’s what I meant by the footnote—I’m well aware that I have a southern accent!