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Re: CHAT: Being taken for a furriner ...

From:Jim Henry <jimhenry@...>
Date:Wednesday, September 1, 2004, 14:07
Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> elautol:

> I've been taken for a foreigner before, but that's always involved me speaking > in a foreign language. Possibly, my recent one-year stay in Germany has left > some mark on my Swedish, but the whole incident nonetheless seems somewhat > extraordinary to me.
> Anyone else here experienced something similar?
On a number of occasions I've had people ask me if I'm English (or more vaguely "British") and once a Welsh woman asked me if I was Irish. I think I may have also had someone ask me what my native language was, but I'm not sure. I was born in Decatur, next to Atlanta, and lived there until I was six; then my family moved to New Orleans for two and a half years. Ever since then I've lived near Atlanta. I'm not sure why my accent is so unidentifiable; theoretically it ought to be obviously Southern U.S. but unobvious about where in the South it originates. - Jim Henry http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/conlang/tokipona/tokipona.htm