It's my first time joining in with Windy Poplar's "Confessions Week!"
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Todays confessions are about accents and quirks in how we speak.
Here goes nothin'!
I tend to speak very formally in my normal life. Apart from making up words to describe my feelings to Mikey on overwhelming days, I basically live by grammatical rules. In fact, it often gets me in trouble with friends who think I've gone mad based on my vocabulary or too-formal wording in very non-formal settings, like game nights and hangouts.
I think I've unconsciously adapted to this realization (that the way I speak can come across as overwhelmingly correct to others), because I definitely slip into a southern, laid-back speech pattern when I'm trying to sound friendly. I don't mean to do this. Honestly. But my "yall" count flares up to unseen heights when I am talking to someone I don't know very well. I also tend to say less formal words and abbreviations for real words. It is as if I suddenly revert back to second grade in upstate South Carolina, without realizing it until some unfamiliar sounding things come out of my mouth!
So what about you? Any accent confessions you'd like to chime in?
5 comments:
Well, I guess it would help if I remembered to put the linky up, huh?!!! Sheesh...too early in the morning I guess! Thanks for playing along with me...that's interesting about how the southern accent really does sound more relaxed and friendly. Never thought of that before, but you're so right! Really enjoyed reading this :-) Have a great day Anna...
I saw "cawfeee" [coffee] and "smawl" [small]....I'm from Jersey, what can I say. I do NOT, however, say "Joisey" nor have ever heard anyone from the state of New Jersey say it as such, only out-of-staters trying to being funny but failing miserably. LOL.
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LOL...that typo would've driven my nuts all day.
words cannot even describe how humiliating that is, LOL. That's what I get for trying to catch up on blogs while creating billing cover letters.
Sigh.
This is funny, my Hubby was born and raised in Texas, and when I met him for the first time I thought he had the biggest Texas accent. Come to find out, that was his "meeting people for the first time and doing business" accent LOL! On a normal day to day basis he doesn't sound like a Texan to me, but I can always tell when he's doing business on the phone, or talking to someone he has either never talked to/or rarely talks to. That Texas accent comes out like crazy. Me, I'm an Okie, and Okie's talk like Okies 24/7-365. :) We say ya'll, fixin' to, and I'dunno. My Hubby says I talk like a hick, but I refuse to believe him. I think I sound perfectly normal. ;)
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