Yeah well I'm finally back in the old country and I'm finding it hard to get used to hordes of Mockney wankers with funny accents shuffling aimlessly along dirty crowded streets with their two bags of groceries which cost them fahsunds of paihnds. I just got into the wrong side of my car and wondered who nicked the steering wheel. I can't face buying petrol for a few days.
I am able to buy ten good lemons for a quid though- whoopee doo!
Do all your friends call you Yank now that your accent has been corrupted (again)? Wait, you went to the Carolinas? Nevermind, the one is simply an offshoot of the other and there's little real difference except that Carolinians walk around saying "Goll Dang!" instead of "Brilliant!".
Actually, no I don't think a month was long enough to modify my accent again, but I was talking to a woman about my car today and I had to stop and think whether to use the terms 'boot' and 'bonnet' or 'hood' and 'trunk'. Interestingly, there was an English guy (chap) on the aeroplane (airplane) on my return flight who was explaining to his neighbour the same thing-living in the USA and adapting the way he speaks on either side of the pond just to ease communication. It's almost like being bi-lingual, but even now occasionally something gets lost in the translation.
Call me weird but I find that the English accent makes me sound smarter. Therefore, I use it whenever I have something dumb to say even when I am speaking Ebonics.
Call me weird but I find that the English accent makes me sound smarter. Therefore, I use it whenever I have something dumb to say even when I am speaking Ebonics.
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