Yankee Doodles Part 2
If it’s any consolation, I like America. And I’m not saying that in a “Saving-Private-Ryan-German-guy-digging-the-hole” type way.
Accent-wise, I’ve been there and back. I moved to the States when I was a kid and within a year, I was getting:
Friend: “Dude how come your parent talk funny?”
Me: “They’re English.”
Friend: “Oh… -Dude how come your parents are English?”
Now I sound English, with a slightly American lilt*.
So it’s swings and roundabouts. Or jungle jims and carousels, depending on your point of view.
Can’t we all just get along?
*fanta
January 26th, 2006 at 12:40 pm
Viva’ le Difference, my friend.
No, wait- that was something else, wasn’t it?
January 26th, 2006 at 9:02 pm
Hi! Got you under vajrayana. I’m RaBlissBlog, doing the juju and trying to raise inner heat. Just to say hello. Hotboy
January 26th, 2006 at 10:55 pm
Wow. Hotboy said everything I was going to say. Dammit. Now I am at a loss.
So I’ll just say that I got a lot of teasing while growing up from my friends because of the way my parents talked.
You see, my parents were both born/raised in Rhode Island but we moved to Texas when I was five.
Here is an example of what that was like for anyone not familiar with the Yankee accent: My mom, while working in the ad office of a junior high school in Texas, had to make a PA announcement regarding the female basketball team remembering to get their shorts.
All anyone heard, thanks to the accent, was “get your shots”. And, due to the age range we are talking about here, the thought of drinks didn’t cross any minds. Only needles.
Needless to say, there was a minor panic followed by a story we can rib my mum about for the rest of our lives.
January 27th, 2006 at 12:45 am
LEEMER! You’ve gone into accent-slippage! You said ‘mum’!
January 27th, 2006 at 4:01 am
Are you asking me or Madonna?
January 27th, 2006 at 4:03 am
So on a scale of 1 to 10 Madonna, how does your accent sound?
January 27th, 2006 at 8:38 am
Nice story Leemer.
Bonnie, me or Leemer?
I sound like Dick van Dyke crossed with Tony Randal.
Not, it’s not very traaahns Atlaaaahntic at all now. Some words, but mostly I have an English newsreader accent. That is, until recently, before the stations changed their newsreaders to journalists with regional accents so they wouldn’t get accused of sounding like newsreaders.
January 27th, 2006 at 5:30 pm
Do you honk like a goose while walking like a penguin? That would pretty much be Tony Randall ( in his Felix Unger guise ) and Dick Van Dyke ( a la Mary Poppins ).
January 27th, 2006 at 10:44 pm
*giggle* I know how Leemer sounds!