mark + ange guinn » accents http://markandange.com where you see the desert sands there's gonna be a tree someday Thu, 08 Mar 2012 20:53:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Accent Shock http://markandange.com/2009/07/19/accent-shock/ http://markandange.com/2009/07/19/accent-shock/#comments Sun, 19 Jul 2009 15:24:17 +0000 Mark http://www.markandange.com/?p=286 This is so wierd.  We’ve been here long enough now that I sometimes hear a Northern Irish or British accent and think it’s an American accent because it’s sounds so normal.  We were watching a British movie on TV the other day and I totally could not tell what the accents were.  I wasn’t convinced they weren’t American accents until we noticed they were driving on the left side of the road.

It just happened again today.  We’re at a big craft fair and this girl came up to Ange’s booth.   I thought she had an American accent, but I couldn’t tell for sure at all.  It’s like I couldn’t remember the difference momentarily, and we had to ask our Irish friend Kerry what kind of accent it was (it actually was American, by the way).

I’m sure it’s just a transitional thing as my brain gets more and more used to living here, but it’s sure wierd.

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