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raccoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-12-09 01:57 PM Original message |
If you ever took speech lessons to eliminate a regional accent, how long did it take you to get |
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Shell Beau (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-12-09 02:00 PM Response to Original message |
1. I don't have a clue, but I bet it differs from person to person. |
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dannofoot (318 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-12-09 03:20 PM Response to Reply #1 |
5. Just a few months... |
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blogslut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-12-09 02:07 PM Response to Original message |
2. Not long |
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Pacifist Patriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-12-09 04:03 PM Response to Reply #2 |
13. I once had a southern accent explained to me as... |
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Aristus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-12-09 02:09 PM Response to Original message |
3. I never took lessons. My Texas accent just gradually disappeared over the years. |
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Heidi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-12-09 02:11 PM Response to Original message |
4. It wore off. When I was younger, I worried about my Oklahoma/Arkansas accent, |
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geardaddy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-12-09 03:22 PM Response to Original message |
6. There's sort of classist mentality to those classes |
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ogneopasno (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-12-09 03:30 PM Response to Original message |
7. I am very much a verbal (vocal?) chameleon. I can pick up any accent I want within minutes. When I |
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geardaddy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-12-09 03:53 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Is that you Zelig? |
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NMDemDist2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-12-09 03:59 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. i do that too. I often wonder if it was the fact I went to 14 schools in 11 years |
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Pacifist Patriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-12-09 04:00 PM Response to Reply #7 |
11. I do the same and sometimes it can be a hinderance. |
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ogneopasno (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-12-09 05:18 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. Hee! |
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NMDemDist2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-12-09 03:56 PM Response to Original message |
9. just buy a cheap tape recorder and listen to yourself |
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Pacifist Patriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-12-09 04:01 PM Response to Original message |
12. I would think it depends upon the individual. |
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Wapsie B (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-12-09 07:27 PM Response to Reply #12 |
16. I've seen Maria Bamford nail that in one of her routines. |
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Pharlo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-12-09 07:06 PM Response to Original message |
15. It's not an accent, but I had a lisp as a child and had speech |
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MrSlayer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-12-09 08:32 PM Response to Original message |
17. You don't need to take lessons. |
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