And once you start playing around with your speech for performance purposes it totally fucks up EVERYTHING, both because I mimic whoever I'm talking with to some degree, ALWAYS, and also because I'm aware of the different ways to say all of those words, and so I can do it, and it's hard for me to concretely say THIS is how I always say this word.
OMG THIS THIS THIS. I do this ALL THE TIME. I actually have to make an EFFORT when I am in other countries to NOT mimic accents, or when I am hanging around people with accents to NOT copy their accent because I do it WITHOUT EVEN THINKING ABOUT IT. I get so concerned that people are going to get annoyed with me for ripping off their accent and I SWEAR I don't do it on purpose.
I even had a moment when I got my result on this quiz where I was worried that because I'd just finished listening to Miz's recording that I'd riffed her accent somehow.
It's also been a thing since I've started making podfic - I have to specifically make sure I record with my own accent, because it's so easy for me to slip into a kind of near-American thing when I'm reading off the page and one of my first draft recordings I did of Bulletproof I was totally doing American pronunciation without even being AWARE of it til I listened back so I had to scrap the whole thing and start again. I ALSO have to be careful not to go the other way though! On a trip to America once for work, I remember my boss (who is American) just STARED at me after I'd finished telling her something and when I asked what was up she said "I'm sorry, it's just your accent is so broad I was having trouble understanding you" - I'd been so concerned about 'turning American' while I was in LA, I'd actually gone too far the OTHER way and was bunging on a Russel Crowe very ocker Aussie accent. I can't win!
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OMG THIS THIS THIS. I do this ALL THE TIME. I actually have to make an EFFORT when I am in other countries to NOT mimic accents, or when I am hanging around people with accents to NOT copy their accent because I do it WITHOUT EVEN THINKING ABOUT IT. I get so concerned that people are going to get annoyed with me for ripping off their accent and I SWEAR I don't do it on purpose.
I even had a moment when I got my result on this quiz where I was worried that because I'd just finished listening to Miz's recording that I'd riffed her accent somehow.
It's also been a thing since I've started making podfic - I have to specifically make sure I record with my own accent, because it's so easy for me to slip into a kind of near-American thing when I'm reading off the page and one of my first draft recordings I did of Bulletproof I was totally doing American pronunciation without even being AWARE of it til I listened back so I had to scrap the whole thing and start again. I ALSO have to be careful not to go the other way though! On a trip to America once for work, I remember my boss (who is American) just STARED at me after I'd finished telling her something and when I asked what was up she said "I'm sorry, it's just your accent is so broad I was having trouble understanding you" - I'd been so concerned about 'turning American' while I was in LA, I'd actually gone too far the OTHER way and was bunging on a Russel Crowe very ocker Aussie accent. I can't win!
LOL /FEELINGS. APPARENTLY I HAVE THEM TOO!