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To: Simon Foxx

Ah. I thought I detected a slight accent. Keep us posted as to how things change.


13 posted on 12/14/2019 1:35:58 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Texas Eagle

Accent? Not here my friend - not unless I want to ‘affect’ one!

I have no discernable accent when I speak English having lived in each region of the USA, (though perhaps every few years someone ‘hears’ a little East Coast in my speech as I grew up in Queens, NY. I HATE when that happens! That is one region of the country I do NOT want to be associated with! *LOL*) I came to the US young enough to lose the foreign accent completely.

The Croatian language I speak with (as I am told by relatives) a “perfect Northern Adriatic Istrian” accent - though when I speak the closely related Serbian language with other relatives in Serbia across the broder, they say I do have a bit of an “American accent”! *LOL* But then, I have an “ear” for pronunciation and a bit of a talent for mimicry ... hence one of my past careers as a US military and diplomatic interpreter in that part of the world ... but that’s another story ...)


18 posted on 12/14/2019 3:45:19 PM PST by Simon Foxx
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