Haiku: conflict
Damn downstairs neighbor
Can't stand us playing Rock Band
Must find a new home
Damn downstairs neighbor
Can't stand us playing Rock Band
Must find a new home
So I'm quite distraught. Apparently, I sound like a Texan. Annika commented after watching our film that I sounded Texan. Someone in New York who I was speaking to at work made the same comment. I'm bummed. I don't want to sound Texan.
I had always been quite happy that everyone in Texas always thinks that I'm from somewhere else, and are surprised to learn I am a native Texan. I always attributed this to the fact that I had always been into doing other accents, and I figured all those years of doing other accents had skewed my own into a more northern or more neutral accent. Many times I find myself slipping toward a more New York area type accent, although just ever so subtly. I guess my accent is so slight that Texans can't hear it, but anyone else can. I'll have to work on that...
I rather like Texans, actually. ;)
Plus, at least you don't get told on the phone, "You don't sound like you're from Texas," all the time. Like I do when I call our res desk in California.
Plus plus, at least you're not Stokey.
April 18, 2004 11:44 AM
Piss on that! All sorts of famous people sound like where they're from, which is GOOD. I decry the homoginization of the American accent!
It's seriously a peeve of mine that East Coasters have such a wide variety of accents and the Westies have, like, four. One: Southern California. Two: TV Style. Three: Hick ("I'm from Warshington and I grow squarsh, which I put in a beg, and I sleep with my head on a pellow.") Four: Classic Native.
I think that some neighborhoods in Boston have at least that many!
April 18, 2004 1:06 PM
Don't be so distraught! "Everyone else" is only two New Yorkers so far! What do we know? Nothing, that's what.
April 18, 2004 1:06 PM
What is "squarsh"? I could do the rest, but I don't quite get that one. It must be years of practice reading "May Un Mar Lady".
Hi Jess!
April 18, 2004 1:21 PM
Hi, Simon! Squash. Cost kick a bo' agin a wo', 'ed it wi' yer 'ed 'til it bost?
April 18, 2004 11:12 PM
She grows squash? I thought it came in bottles. Or, at best, Tetra-Paks.
April 19, 2004 5:59 AM
Squash!
Also, it turns out that May un Mar Lady hasn't been seen in the pages of the Sentinel for some time, or there'd be a fun link here for the benefit of everyone who isn't Simon or me. But there's going to be a comeback, oh yes!
April 19, 2004 11:45 AM
For what it's worth, I remember back in the days of Yahoo! voice chat being surprised that you did NOT sound Texan to me. (Although, I don't know as I know that many other Texans to compare your accent to, but, still...)
April 20, 2004 1:56 PM
Why, it's just like a courgette!
April 20, 2004 5:03 PM
Courgettes, pumpkins, cucumbers, and so on are indeed part of the squash family of fruit.
April 21, 2004 11:11 AM