Re: OT: Conlangea Dreaming

Nik Taylor wrote:
>
> Robert Hailman wrote:
> > Robert, who pronounces English with a bland lack of accent - or so I
> > like to think.
>
> If only I could think that ... ;-)  Very often, when I meet someone for
> the first time, something like the following invariably comes up:
>
> Other Person: So, where are you from?
> Me: Pensacola (or Pensacola, Florida)
> O: Really?  You don't sound like it.
> OR
> O: Really?  I didn't think they talked that way there.
> OR
> O: Really?  You sound like you're from [insert country of choice]
>
> I've heard Germany, Russia, Australia, Britain, Eastern Europe
>
That's pretty bizarre - no one ever has said that I sound like I come
from another country.

> I have a kind of unplaceable accent; perhaps there are traits of all
> those different regions, and different people pick up on different
> traits?  The story behind that is, or so my Mom has hypothesized that
> this is its origin, is that when I was a little kid, I had some speech
> impediments, and my mother took me to a speech therapist, and I must've
> picked up her accent, whatever it was!  So I don't even *know* what my
> own accent is!  :-)
I had some speech impediments when I was younger, but they went away on
their own.

My accent doesn't really fit in with Toronto's accent, but both my
parents were born & raised in Toronto - I take after my mother in some
regards, and some I've never heard except from myself.

> Speaking of pronunciation ... When's the phonetic relay going to start?
Hopefully this Monday - I would have liked to get it started quite a
while ago, but in this crazy world of ours, things came up that made
that impossible.

Sorry for the long wait, everybody.

--
Robert