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Yea, I have my Memphis "accent" around my homies but when I'm around white people I have my proper voice on..Even elderly black people I talk proper. I know how to switch it up
Anyone else have different accents around different ethnic groups?
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Yea, I have my Memphis "accent" around my homies but when I'm around white people I have my proper voice on..Even elderly black people I talk proper. I know how to switch it up
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When I'm with Asians I talk faster (just a little bit, with some more slang), when I'm with white people I usually have perfect grammar. With black people I talk normally
Don't know many Latinos
Don't know many Latinos
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When I'm with Asians I talk faster (just a little bit, with some more slang), when I'm with white people I usually have perfect grammar. With black people I talk normally
Don't know many Latinos
Don't know many Latinos
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first thing i thought of was this when i clicked on this thread.
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first thing i thought of was this when i clicked on this thread.
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I aint gonna change my hood Texas accent for no one.
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I aint gonna change my hood Texas accent for no one.
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I've been guilty of this too, don't know why I do it either. When I was abroad this summer and speaking to chicks who knew barely any English, I spoke straight ******ed
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Rude %!% girls like this really get to me. And they think they be DOING it too!
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Rude %!% girls like this really get to me. And they think they be DOING it too!
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I've been guilty of this too, don't know why I do it either. When I was abroad this summer and speaking to chicks who knew barely any English, I spoke straight ******ed
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Originally Posted by airbornho
Originally Posted by beh235
I never had an accent, but I speak properly around everyone. You speak how you speak. I had a roommate once that was like a human chameleon when it came to accents. It irritated me. I don't care what your accent is as long as you speak properly. Dude tried to sound white around white people, black around black people, and was Mr. Panama around spanish ppl(He was panamanian). I called him out for being a fraud, he got tight. My whole thing was, be who you are dude.
You speak? Then you have an accent. There's probably accents for even sign language so don't go on that 'I don't have an accent' nonsense.
I'm multilingual so I pay a lot of attention to variations in diction, tempo, context and culture for each language and subsection of the language. Everyone's definition of what 'proper' is depends on more factors than just what you consider proper. I'm not going to use lawyer talk when I'm talking to a kid. Part of being an effective communicator is being able to be flexible with getting your message across. If you try to get at everyone in just one way, you ain't getting nowhere. There's nothing wrong with having a little fun with how you speak.
I'm doing me though, have fun doing you.
Leave it to someone on NT to be judgemental and take it out of context. Go pick a fight with someone else. You sound arrogant by assuming my point of view.
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Originally Posted by airbornho
Originally Posted by beh235
I never had an accent, but I speak properly around everyone. You speak how you speak. I had a roommate once that was like a human chameleon when it came to accents. It irritated me. I don't care what your accent is as long as you speak properly. Dude tried to sound white around white people, black around black people, and was Mr. Panama around spanish ppl(He was panamanian). I called him out for being a fraud, he got tight. My whole thing was, be who you are dude.
You speak? Then you have an accent. There's probably accents for even sign language so don't go on that 'I don't have an accent' nonsense.
I'm multilingual so I pay a lot of attention to variations in diction, tempo, context and culture for each language and subsection of the language. Everyone's definition of what 'proper' is depends on more factors than just what you consider proper. I'm not going to use lawyer talk when I'm talking to a kid. Part of being an effective communicator is being able to be flexible with getting your message across. If you try to get at everyone in just one way, you ain't getting nowhere. There's nothing wrong with having a little fun with how you speak.
I'm doing me though, have fun doing you.
Leave it to someone on NT to be judgemental and take it out of context. Go pick a fight with someone else. You sound arrogant by assuming my point of view.
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The whole point of my post was to just be who you are. There are times where you speak professionally for work purposes and other times, you speak how you would speak with your friends. It just sounded like dude was confused. Be who you are and you will be accepted. He sounded like a confused clown. I lost respect for him after seeing thatOriginally Posted by SoundnFury
Originally Posted by beh235
I never had an accent, but I speak properly around everyone. You speak how you speak.I had a roommate once that was like a human chameleon when it came to accents. It irritated me. I don't care what your accent is as long as you speak properly.Dude tried to sound white around white people, black around black people,and was Mr. Panama around spanish ppl(He was panamanian). I called him out for being a fraud, he got tight. My whole thing was, be who you are dude.
i consciously do this, ill admit it though. i see no problem adapting to the situation im in.
im half black half white. When im around my black fathers part of the family i talk differently then i do around my white mothers part and vice versa.
ive done it since i was born its natural and needed
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The whole point of my post was to just be who you are. There are times where you speak professionally for work purposes and other times, you speak how you would speak with your friends. It just sounded like dude was confused. Be who you are and you will be accepted. He sounded like a confused clown. I lost respect for him after seeing thatOriginally Posted by SoundnFury
Originally Posted by beh235
I never had an accent, but I speak properly around everyone. You speak how you speak.I had a roommate once that was like a human chameleon when it came to accents. It irritated me. I don't care what your accent is as long as you speak properly.Dude tried to sound white around white people, black around black people,and was Mr. Panama around spanish ppl(He was panamanian). I called him out for being a fraud, he got tight. My whole thing was, be who you are dude.
i consciously do this, ill admit it though. i see no problem adapting to the situation im in.
im half black half white. When im around my black fathers part of the family i talk differently then i do around my white mothers part and vice versa.
ive done it since i was born its natural and needed
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same.
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same.
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beh235, I see what you're saying. It's just one of my peeves when people say they have 'no accent' because it isn't true
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beh235, I see what you're saying. It's just one of my peeves when people say they have 'no accent' because it isn't true
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i do this at work all the damn time lol.
i work at starbucks so i get so many different types of people
indians get hit up with the alo my friend
white people get the hey buddy
the younger crowd get hit with wassup man what can i get started for you
pretty girls get somethin like hows it goin
and so on...
at work especially it gets people to open up to you a little bit more and get them comfortable talking to you since our goal is to connect with the customer as much as we can.
about a month ago i said,
"hey buddy what can i get for you my friend"
to an indian man and
i got responded with
"my name is not buddy
, tall coffee please"
maybe my indian accent was on too heavy at the time, i noticed more americanized indians dont like it as much
one of the funniest responses ive ever gotten so far
the whole crew was rollin as soon as the man left
i work at starbucks so i get so many different types of people
indians get hit up with the alo my friend
white people get the hey buddy
the younger crowd get hit with wassup man what can i get started for you
pretty girls get somethin like hows it goin
and so on...
at work especially it gets people to open up to you a little bit more and get them comfortable talking to you since our goal is to connect with the customer as much as we can.
about a month ago i said,
"hey buddy what can i get for you my friend"
to an indian man and
i got responded with
"my name is not buddy
maybe my indian accent was on too heavy at the time, i noticed more americanized indians dont like it as much
one of the funniest responses ive ever gotten so far
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i do this at work all the damn time lol.
i work at starbucks so i get so many different types of people
indians get hit up with the alo my friend
white people get the hey buddy
the younger crowd get hit with wassup man what can i get started for you
pretty girls get somethin like hows it goin
and so on...
at work especially it gets people to open up to you a little bit more and get them comfortable talking to you since our goal is to connect with the customer as much as we can.
about a month ago i said,
"hey buddy what can i get for you my friend"
to an indian man and
i got responded with
"my name is not buddy
, tall coffee please"
maybe my indian accent was on too heavy at the time, i noticed more americanized indians dont like it as much
one of the funniest responses ive ever gotten so far
the whole crew was rollin as soon as the man left
i work at starbucks so i get so many different types of people
indians get hit up with the alo my friend
white people get the hey buddy
the younger crowd get hit with wassup man what can i get started for you
pretty girls get somethin like hows it goin
and so on...
at work especially it gets people to open up to you a little bit more and get them comfortable talking to you since our goal is to connect with the customer as much as we can.
about a month ago i said,
"hey buddy what can i get for you my friend"
to an indian man and
i got responded with
"my name is not buddy
maybe my indian accent was on too heavy at the time, i noticed more americanized indians dont like it as much
one of the funniest responses ive ever gotten so far
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ev209 wrote: "my name is not buddy, tall coffee please"
na mine nevr changes
