07-05-2014, 09:41 PM
Carol - when I first moved here I stayed as a room-mate of a friend and colleague who'd spent a year here and he kept telling me how much things cost in "bucks". I thought it sounded daft, a Brit using such language and with an English accent. Now I find myself doing exactly the same thing.
I'm sure it sounds ridiculous to people here, saying "oh, that's about twenty bucks then" with an English accent, but I also now say trunk rather than boot and hood rather than bonnet, but always with an English accent. I was always bad at languages and am especially bad at accents (you don't want to hear my pidgin) although strangely enough I could do a really good Ulster accent, but anything Hawaiian or US defeats me. My brain just isn't wired that way. For some reason, though, I can instantly switch back to being a Brit when I go back there despite living here so long. On the other hand, people here actually seem to like my accent, but they always think I'm Australian...
Have a nice day.
(Was that the right way to end a conversation?)
I'm sure it sounds ridiculous to people here, saying "oh, that's about twenty bucks then" with an English accent, but I also now say trunk rather than boot and hood rather than bonnet, but always with an English accent. I was always bad at languages and am especially bad at accents (you don't want to hear my pidgin) although strangely enough I could do a really good Ulster accent, but anything Hawaiian or US defeats me. My brain just isn't wired that way. For some reason, though, I can instantly switch back to being a Brit when I go back there despite living here so long. On the other hand, people here actually seem to like my accent, but they always think I'm Australian...
Have a nice day.
(Was that the right way to end a conversation?)