• Chetzemoka@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Yeah I’m absurdly good at not speaking in my native Appalachian accent, opting instead for a sort of “generic midwest.” Unless I’m tawking to ma day-ed-dy, n’ then all bets is awf."

    My sister and I cover so well and so often that none of her four children who are literally being raised in Charleston, West Virginia has even a trace of our accent.

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      1 year ago

      @Chetzemoka

      I came here to say essentially the same thing. It’s hillbilly code-switching; if you speak without an accent most of the time, but then meet someone who speaks that way, you can put the accent “back on” again and immediately gain a massive boost to your charisma stat when you need it.

      I do it all the time at work. No accent until I’m providing care for someone with a southern accent, then bam! “Well, ah doan know whai inneewon wooden lissen to me!”

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        1 year ago

        YEP. Same. It’s always entertaining at work to watch a colleague who’s never heard my accent before hear me speak to a patient from Appalachia or the south