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    Quote Originally Posted by Alan View Post
    LOL, well that's not the worst thing you've called me, luckily I'm not easily offended and it won't stop my participation in whatever discussion I find interesting so, try harder?
    Have you been filling bottles with gasoline and creating malaise?

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    Quote Originally Posted by LDAHL View Post
    Have you been filling bottles with gasoline and creating malaise?
    That's a big negatory on the bottles of gasoline and a definite maybe on creating malaise, but only on those who find differing views upsetting. I also come from a long and storied line of "good ol boys", I lost the accent long ago but I can still talk the talk.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Alan View Post
    LOL, well that's not the worst thing you've called me, luckily I'm not easily offended and it won't stop my participation in whatever discussion I find interesting so, try harder?
    Did you not note the question mark?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Alan View Post
    That's a big negatory on the bottles of gasoline and a definite maybe on creating malaise, but only on those who find differing views upsetting. I also come from a long and storied line of "good ol boys", I lost the accent long ago but I can still talk the talk.
    You’re right. Nothing to be proud of though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by frugal-one View Post
    You’re right. Nothing to be proud of though.
    I've learned to live with the shame.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Alan View Post
    I also come from a long and storied line of "good ol boys", I lost the accent long ago but I can still talk the talk.
    My daughter specializes in language.

    Just a few years ago, my uncle came by here to visit for a few weeks. He arrived speaking a sorta-Midland accent and vocabulary. My own accent is a mishmash of Southern California/PNW accents.

    She observed with horror that after spending a day chatting with each other and telling old family stories, we had both reverted to the Appalachian speech patterns of our youth.

    She's one to complain, I never know what accent she'll step off the plane with when she comes to visit. Last time it was very Welsh, though to be fair she had just been in Wales for months, speaking Welsh.

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    Quote Originally Posted by frugal-one View Post
    Did you not note the question mark?
    Yes, but I find a declarative statement followed by a question mark not to be a question at all.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Alan View Post
    Yes, but I find a declarative statement followed by a question mark not to be a question at all.
    That’s on you then.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bae View Post
    She observed with horror that after spending a day chatting with each other and telling old family stories, we had both reverted to the Appalachian speech patterns of our youth.
    My wife says I do the same when we visit my youngest remaining brother. He's sort of a skinny Larry The Cable Guy, even sharing the name.
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    Quote Originally Posted by bae View Post
    My daughter specializes in language.

    Just a few years ago, my uncle came by here to visit for a few weeks. He arrived speaking a sorta-Midland accent and vocabulary. My own accent is a mishmash of Southern California/PNW accents.

    She observed with horror that after spending a day chatting with each other and telling old family stories, we had both reverted to the Appalachian speech patterns of our youth.

    She's one to complain, I never know what accent she'll step off the plane with when she comes to visit. Last time it was very Welsh, though to be fair she had just been in Wales for months, speaking Welsh.
    Some people are accent sponges and others never ever lose theirs. My MIL lived in this country for 60 years and sounded just as Glaswegian when she died as she when she first set foot in this country. I, in fact, am known to use many of her Scottish expressions.. I check my "line" when I leave the supermarket, I'll say an agitated person as "up to high doh;" if I'm happy with something I might say I'm "fair pleased." The dialect is so cool and musical I can't resist co-opting it from time to time.

    In general, it's annoying when people adopt an accent too quickly--it seems fake, but I think sometimes it's a way to connect with and integrate in the community.

    Alan, I'm always fascinated by how many Southern accents there are. There's Texas, and Louisiana, and Georgia, and Tennessee--all variations on the theme. Dave Ramsey said that went he went to radio, he had to get a speech coach to mitigate his accent.

    Personally, I don't have an accent.
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