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Dec 3, 2014
8:49:15pm

San Juan Sun

Sorry guys, you don't pick up an accent in your native languauge

Unless it's a word that you don't use in your native country (I.e. Didgeridoo), you do not acquire a foreign accent to your native language. Your brain does not completely rework 2 decades of language because you spent two years tracking in Queensland.

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San Juan Sun

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Sorry guys, you don't pick up an accent in your native languauge

12/3/14 8:49pm

My bro went to Aussie-land for his mission trip

bluebloodedcoug

12/3/14 8:54pm

same

BYUFBDAD

12/3/14 8:56pm

Served in New Zealand. This is correct.

Orange4Life

12/3/14 9:12pm

Have a close friend who has been living in Australia for the last three years

indocoug

12/3/14 9:26pm

My (at the time) 60 year old grandma served in Australia and came back with an

12/4/14 8:05am

I see this as the case

Justinodhan

12/4/14 8:29am

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Orange4Life

12/3/14 9:13pm

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Abe Froman

12/3/14 8:55pm

dude tonight at Chipotle just had to pronounce 'carnitas' with an accent. SMH.

12/3/14 8:59pm

Glad you know it all.

IceBlue

12/3/14 9:03pm

^^^ got a winner here ^^^

12/3/14 9:12pm

That right there is some powerful stuff. Maybe you

IceBlue

12/3/14 9:18pm

Did you just say that in a British accent?

blueaussie

12/4/14 12:21am

shall I throw another shrimp on the barbie for ya Chips O'Toole?

icecougar

12/4/14 1:12am

Best comedy ever.

12/4/14 1:40am

You're correct IceBlue, and of course most people would agree

marklar39

12/4/14 1:53am

When did you finally shake your "accent"?

12/4/14 5:10am

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shakarocks

12/4/14 10:38am

San Jaun is correct. You dont pick up a full blown accent in two years time.

BearsandBulls

12/4/14 8:35am

I knew a guy who'd go tracking in the bush. Caught up with some pretty nasty

SuperTank

12/3/14 9:04pm

I couldn't even pick up the Rhode Island accent even though I lived there for 20

vacougfan

12/3/14 9:09pm

haha me too, because that's my family.

southernfriedcougar

12/3/14 9:20pm

My extended family all has it bad too.

vacougfan

12/3/14 9:31pm

My dad's side is funny bad.

Mantis Mutu

12/3/14 9:48pm

Us RI-ahs need to stick togethah.

vacougfan

12/3/14 9:53pm

Geesh, it must be something about the board.

Mantis Mutu

12/3/14 9:54pm

yep, born in Westerly.

southernfriedcougar

12/3/14 10:51pm

My best friend (a non-Mormon from Narragansett area)

Mantis Mutu

12/3/14 10:57pm

Wish I coulda given you mine during my job interview today.

Mantis Mutu

12/3/14 9:43pm

That's cuz you grew up on the mainland... Us Aquideneck Islanders simply don't

vacougfan

12/3/14 9:54pm

Growing up you don't really notice it cuz there's so many folk that don't

Mantis Mutu

12/3/14 10:00pm

So is it all the outa-staters in Newport that do that, you think?

Mantis Mutu

12/3/14 10:07pm

Never really spent a whole lot of time on conanicut island to know if they had

vacougfan

12/3/14 10:13pm

Okay, you taught me something there. My Quaker ancestors are from "Conanicut."

Mantis Mutu

12/3/14 10:16pm

And if you REALLY want to get technical, the big Island that is commonly called

vacougfan

12/3/14 10:19pm

Absolutely. We Plantation folk sound like the slave holders, but it was you

Mantis Mutu

12/3/14 10:32pm

I served the last five months of my mission in RI. When I got home, my family

ptcougr

12/4/14 4:19am

You're one old dude if you covered that much ground! My folks (if born) were

Mantis Mutu

12/4/14 1:04pm

New England Mission 1967-1969. My last area was Warren, R.I. which included

ptcougr

12/5/14 2:10pm

I legitimately had a sing-song accent when I talked in English after my Mexico

12/3/14 9:09pm

I am more likely to believe the accent if the missionary spent the entire time

vacougfan

12/3/14 9:15pm

I did have all Mexican companions and a Mexican president. Either way, my

12/3/14 9:20pm

Same here. Spanish speaking and my family kept laughing because if the sing song

jaredm

12/3/14 9:23pm

I practically never spoke English for two years

2FarGone

12/3/14 9:25pm

My family teased me as well and I didn't know I was doing it. I didn't like

cougarim

12/3/14 9:31pm

not sure if it was the same for you but I had a hard time reading the scriptures

jaredm

12/3/14 9:44pm

I agree. I thought about it a lot, and came to a realization as to why.

12/3/14 9:50pm

Yes, this is how it was for me at first when I came home from my mission. I even

cougarim

12/3/14 9:59pm

very true thanks for expressing that. I always thought it was the way the Englis

jaredm

12/3/14 10:03pm

So for what it is worth, modifying nouns that way is called state of construct.

cougarim

12/3/14 10:09pm

wait, so you don't know people from the south who moved other places

macaroni

12/3/14 9:11pm

Speech is highly malleable until about 4 years of age

12/3/14 9:15pm

Trust him. He knows.

IceBlue

12/3/14 9:20pm

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Abe Froman

12/3/14 9:22pm

Only up until 4. You blow out the candles and your malleability at the same time

IceBlue

12/3/14 9:27pm

RE: wait, so you don't know people from the south who moved other places

85fan

12/3/14 10:36pm

For just two years? I have never met a southern transplant who lost their

BYU '80

12/4/14 6:09am

my wife did.

macaroni

12/4/14 8:16am

I served two years in Korea, spoke mostly English

Bert609

12/3/14 9:12pm

This is not possible. You are not malleable after 4... Or so we hear.

IceBlue

12/3/14 9:25pm

So how long have you kept your "accent"? Lol

12/3/14 9:31pm

I served in St. Louis Missouri, when I got home my family told me I had a

12/3/14 9:23pm

you are completely

eyebleedblu

12/3/14 10:24pm

I don't agree. I pick up a big southern drawl every time I visit the south.

tebowned

12/3/14 11:02pm

I've lived in the South for over six years now and I find myself speaking

hansel

12/4/14 7:34am

I just laugh when American's "love" someone's British accent

marklar39

12/4/14 12:26am

Very true...

12/4/14 1:46am

I heard a British Historian claim that a couple hundred years ago British spoke

winchel

12/4/14 8:56am

That would be interesting.

12/4/14 11:06am

Because acquiring an accent has everything to do with BYU Football and not

FILIKU

12/4/14 1:48am

Hey, do I know you?

marklar39

12/4/14 2:01am

My brother in law came back with an Australian accent. He is not the blade

Bob Vance

12/4/14 2:36am

Think about immigrants who move to the US and "lose" their native accent...

bluejammer

12/4/14 9:00am

I had very difficult time with English when I came back from a Northern Euro

Real Men Wear Blue

12/4/14 9:13am

I Disagree

shakarocks

12/4/14 10:40am

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