No True Scotsman: Week 7 LJ Idol

[xlovebecomesher]

If you were to hear me speak, rather than typing, you'd note that for an American, I don't have much of an accent. I don't drawl my words like a southerner, I don't drop my r's like someone who lives in the Northeast, I don't have a midwest twang. I don't even have a true Marylander accent - I can even say wash correctly (ask many Marylanders and

Comments

[seizetheday]

I don't think that I have much of an accent but when I lived in Boston people thought I sounded like I was from the south. My dad is from MD and says "warsh" and other words with the MD accent.

[ragnarok_08]

I don't have much an accent myself, but ever since moving to the South, people have noticed that I talk differently than everyone else, where most people I have met would sometimes have a Southern drawl, and others don't have an accent whatsoever.

[awakenyourfaith]

I don't think I have much of an accent, but since moving to Virginia, more people have commented on my lack of an accent. I've also heard that I have an interesting voice. Which is, well, interesting.

[violaconspiracy]

Accents are weird and crazy things. I thought I didn't have an accent, until I moved to Colorado and people started asking me if I was from Canada (nope, Michigan). As a teacher abroad, I had to suppress a fit of giggles when one of my Korean students spoke English with an Australian accent. I wish that we could all treat accents more as something interesting and amusing, rather than as something to be used as a basis for exclusion.

[pixiebelle]

I have an accent... And it's changed over the years. Growing up, I sounded like I was from Brooklyn, though I've never stepped foot in New York to this day. I grew up in a tiny Italian part of town though. Them I moved to the country and the school put me I'm speech classes. People now tell me I have a southern twang. I don't hear it.

I'm often mocked out here in CA because I can't pronounced Spanish words at all.

Anyway, I really enjoyed reading this. I knew you were Israeli and spoke Hebrew, but I still found it interesting to read :)