Re: CHAT: This or that that.
| From: | Mia Soderquist <happycritter@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, February 14, 2007, 18:04 |
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Isaac Penzev" <isaacp@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 9:13 AM
Subject: Re: This or that that.
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> Now, I'm in a good company! I don't even realise that - my wife ofen tells
> me that I immediately start imitating accent of my interlocutor!
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> -- Yitzik
I do the same thing. Sometimes I catch myself and try to stop, particularly
if I am starting to echo regional accents in American English, my native
language. I don't want people to think I am making fun of them when I am
just unconsciously starting to talk like the people around me. I figure it
isn't so bad when I am speaking Spanish, since the people I am talking to
know it isn't my first language.
I wonder if this is a habit peculiar to the more linguistically-oriented
mind, or if it is just something that everyone does to a degree.
Mia.
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