An unfinished story, and a meme

[copperwolf]

I'm at my parents' house for a couple weeks - they hadn't seen my son since last September. Their house is packed full of junk accumulated over 35 years, so I've tried to cull some of the stuff I left here after college. While tidying my old room, I came across a paperback novel aristeros gave me years ago: Siege of Shadows by Lynn Abbey. I liked the

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[daisho]

Is 'inland north' really that famous? I can't say I'd be able to place it -- even if I'd heard of it.

[copperwolf]

I haven't heard of "inland north" before either. My father is from the Great Lakes area, so I suppose I talk like him. Of course, I think I sound normal.

People say my mother has a foreign accent, but it's imperceptible to me, except for words that come up maybe two or three times a month. On the other hand, I can hear her brother's accent in every sentence he utters, and he had the same primary and secondary schooling -- maybe college too, I'm not sure -- and has lived in the U.S. almost as long.

[daisho]

Familial variations like that are odd, aren't they? Still, I suppose we all have slightly different experiences even from those close to us.

My parents are fairly well-spoken, and we moved around a fair bit following my dad's job when I was young, so I didn't have much of an accent as a kid. I've lived near where I do now for a long time, though, and it has a couple of distinctive accents, one rather lazy in terms of mouth movements. Alas, firenightingale and I both now exhibit signs of said lazy accent.

We're trying to curb that a bit so Junior doesn't end up with too strong a version himself. I suspect our efforts might be in vain, however!