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I learned to talk in NYC (and I live there now), but I also learned a lot of language from books (including British), PBS, foreign teachers (including bilingual schooling), etc, so I've been told fairly often that I (a) don't sound like I'm from NYC* and (b) that I sound British/other. (The "British" may also partly be some older NYC which I picked up from my great-great aunt, my grandparents, and a couple of their cousins since some older NYC is noticeably closer to "British" than modern NYC is.)
I once accidentally confused a Texan linguistics prof (who knew I was from NYC) because I'd just spent a long weekend with a Texan friend and brought back some of his accent w/o realizing it, and just today a colleague who's from western PA (I think) said I sounded like his mom 'cause I said "idjit" for "idiot" (I also pronounce it "ideeyit").
*I think this is usually meant as I don't have the stereotypical "NYC" accent (really more Brooklyn/Queens than Manhattan/Bronx - I'm not sure about Staten Island).
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Date: 2006-05-12 11:29 pm (UTC)I learned to talk in NYC (and I live there now), but I also learned a lot of language from books (including British), PBS, foreign teachers (including bilingual schooling), etc, so I've been told fairly often that I (a) don't sound like I'm from NYC* and (b) that I sound British/other. (The "British" may also partly be some older NYC which I picked up from my great-great aunt, my grandparents, and a couple of their cousins since some older NYC is noticeably closer to "British" than modern NYC is.)
I once accidentally confused a Texan linguistics prof (who knew I was from NYC) because I'd just spent a long weekend with a Texan friend and brought back some of his accent w/o realizing it, and just today a colleague who's from western PA (I think) said I sounded like his mom 'cause I said "idjit" for "idiot" (I also pronounce it "ideeyit").
*I think this is usually meant as I don't have the stereotypical "NYC" accent (really more Brooklyn/Queens than Manhattan/Bronx - I'm not sure about Staten Island).