Do you have an accent?

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I recorded myself because I thought I might have some cool accent like people who live other places do, but I played it back and…nothing, I just sound normal so I’m not sure what gives.
 
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Everyone has an accent. We just can't hear our own. I can't hear mine, but I go to another province and people know I'm not from there. I imagine if you went somewhere else people would think you had an accent.
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Everyone has an accent. We just can't hear our own. I can't hear mine, but I go to another province and people know I'm not from there. I imagine if you went somewhere else people would think you had an accent.
 
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Timmy Jolsen said:
Everyone has an accent. We just can't hear our own. I can't hear mine, but I go to another province and people know I'm not from there. I imagine if you went somewhere else people would think you had an accent.
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When I was in South Korea their accent was so thick even the letters on the signs looked different and I couldn’t understand a single word.

This must be how they knew I wasn’t a local.
 
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Yes.
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I have a heavy accent. I call it "Plantation Southern", because it sounds like I just walked off a Alabama cotton plantation. Which is exactly the origins of my accent, I know where the slaves are buried. I think its actually referred to as the Coastal Southern Dialect. If you have ever seen "Gone With the Wind", its sounds like that. Find a video of Jeff Sessions, sounds just like that. Believe me, I have caught massive amounts of hate for it. People either think I am a true racist or being arrogant with a fake accent. Been asked why I dont tone down or to change my accent. I refuse to hide my heritage.
 
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My mother once explained my accent as being the result of so-called Foreign Accent Syndrome, which developed when she dropped me as a baby. I think a childhood interest in Great Britain had more to do with it, but who knows? In terms of how it sounds, it's a mixture of southern drawl, Mid-Atlantic, and Scottish, depending on whom I'm speaking with.
 
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When I'm the slightest bit animated apparently I sound like a negress because I just got told at work "you can't talk like that!" by a work friend, she looked so scared for me...
I started taking off my earrings just in case she started getting any funny ideas about reporting a microg gression. (No I didn't)
 
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I have an extremely thick Upper South accent that has been drifting more into a Deep South accent over time.* My (ex) girlfriend once described it as a sheriff voice which made me feel sexy. (There are parts of the South that sound exactly like Texas.)

*This is interesting because I don't interact with townies enough, and my coworkers are not locals, so it can't be something I've picked up environmentally, it has to be a subconscious thing.

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I have a heavy accent. I call it "Plantation Southern", because it sounds like I just walked off a Alabama cotton plantation. Which is exactly the origins of my accent, I know where the slaves are buried. I think its actually referred to as the Coastal Southern Dialect. If you have ever seen "Gone With the Wind", its sounds like that. Find a video of Jeff Sessions, sounds just like that. Believe me, I have caught massive amounts of hate for it. People either think I am a true racist or being arrogant with a fake accent. Been asked why I dont tone down or to change my accent. I refuse to hide my heritage.
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I 100% believe people discriminate against me, but I refuse to make the slightest reduction on principle (I believe in linguistic diversity in general, I read some about linguistics and take an interest in weird little linguistic enclaves like the Hoi Toiders or those New Orleans Italians that through convergent evolution sound like NYC).
 
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