I have a good friend who lives and works in West Hollywood. Whenever he comes to visit his accent sounds hella gay when he first shows up, and gets less and less gay as the visit progresses. We definitely adjust our speech based on whom we are surrounded by. I once hung out with a Londoner for a week, and near the end of the trip I realized that I was speaking with an English accent when I got drunk.
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ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
It’s normal for people to change how they speak based on the audience they’re speaking to. Here’s an interesting video focusing on “gay voice” but notes it’s not just a thing gay men do. Everyone does it. The thing is, it’s consistent, not random. If the person at your work isn’t changing their voice based on who they’re talking to, but randomly, they’re just being weird.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 months ago
NoneYa@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I have encountered that before. I remember a kid I went to school with, his family had come from the UK and he had a noticeable accent when speaking to his parents and sister but his accent changed whenever he spoke to us yanks.
That made sense to me and easily understood why he sounded that way depending on who he spoke to.
This coworker…it’s the same group of people each day she speaks to us and none of us have anything but the standard American accent.