Code switching is pretty common, but this sounds like something different since she’s using different accents with the same people.
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mecfs@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I speak with an american accent in my academic circle because everyone there is super american.
But in my friend group I let my half-aussie half-british accent go free.
Also speak that american accent with most strangers since they have usually learnt american english and will probably understand me better.
Eylrid@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Anticorp@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Also speak that american accent with most strangers since they have usually learnt american english and will probably understand me better.
I love it when I meet Asians who learned English from the English. Same goes for black people from England. The accents are so unexpected that they sound really appealing and cool.
mecfs@lemmy.world 3 months ago
With the kind of demogaphic on lemmy sure. But trust me speaking in a thick half aussie half british boganesque accent anywhere with non-uni educated people in the US gets you blank stares of confusion. I once had an old lady at wallmart yell at me too speak english or leave the country 😂
khannie@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I met a German girl at a hostel in Los Angeles once when I was young and her English was so perfect and her accent so thoroughly American that she had to show me her passport for me to believe she was German.
It was all fun. I had kinda forgotten about that little incident until this thread. :)
volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I speak perfect German, in fact my German is better than my Russian (which my parents taught me). I cannot say one word or read a sentence in German to my parents without the heaviest Russian accent. It’s insanely hard to turn off and I have to concentrate on every word if I want to pronounce it normally. But the default is the most heavy and cliched Russian accent.