• socsa@piefed.social
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    4 days ago

    My wife gets absolutely irate when I tell her she still has an accent, and that she also code switches her accents depending on who she is talking to.

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      4 days ago

      Everybody has an accent. But, do you mean that you can still tell that English isn’t her first language or something?

      A friend of mine is a champion unconscious code switcher. I lived in Australia for a bit and I don’t think my accent drifted much. It was enough of a problem that when I went to restaurants and asked for water they’d look at me confused, so I had to learn to say “whoa-tah”. This friend came to visit me in Australia and within a week he was using Australian terms and drifting into an Australian accent, even when talking to me, and it was completely unconscious.