thinking in accents

[Bob]

sometimes when i spend a lot of time watching TV shows or movies or listening to podcasts or whatever from another country, i'll find myself thinking in that country's accent. like i'm watching a lot of charlie brooker stuff lately and i'm finding myself thinking in a british accent (i did the same thing when i was hooked on spaced). when i watched a lot of flight of the conchords, i found myself thinking in a new zealand accent, to the extent that i actually know what that accent sounds like

i don't use it when speaking, obviously, because i'm not a tool, but do any of you ever do anything like that? or am i just a weirdo

[paul jones]

you're just a weirdo bob(y);)

[insertnamehere]

it happens to me

i also inadvertently mirror people like crazy. i try to minimize it, especially when dealing with someone from another country when it would be super obvious (you can get away with it more with other US dialects) but if like, an australian person comes in to my work i have to struggle to not use a similar speech pattern. if im dealing with asians i tend to not use articles. i worry that it makes me seem like a tool but its really not on purpose.

when i worked in a japanese steakhouse, i basically stopped using anything close to correct grammar. who needs articles or conjugated verbs! no one else was using them so why should i have to?

the dude i mentioned that i really like a lot i also mirror really bad. probably makes me come off as creepy. hmmmm

[Audio.]

verbally that happens to me sometimes.

[Adam]

wheres the car

[Adam]

Charlie Brooker did a pilot for Gameswipe last week, hopefully a series eventually but you should be able to find it on a torrent or something if you look. Its about games obviously in the same format.

[insertnamehere]

the fuck?

[Bob]

Charlie Brooker did a pilot for Gameswipe last week, hopefully a series eventually but you should be able to find it on a torrent or something if you look. Its about games obviously in the same format.

yeah i saw it on youtube, it was very good. i've also been watching newswipe and screenwipe but gameswipe was the most familiar to me because newswipe and screenwipe were 70% about british things which i didn't have a clue about whereas videogames are more or less universal

nevertheless, newswipe and screenwipe make me laugh because charlie brooker is just funny enough to pull it off

[Adam]

I'm guessing you know but he does a couple of articles on guardian.co.uk on saturday (about TV) and Monday (about random shit).

I don't have a TV so don't read the saturday one much unless the headline grabs me but you should check out the monday one if you don't already.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/charliebrooker

[Bob]

I'm guessing you know but he does a couple of articles on guardian.co.uk on saturday (about TV) and Monday (about random shit).

I don't have a TV so don't read the saturday one much unless the headline grabs me but you should check out the monday one if you don't already.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/charliebrooker

yeah venus pointed me to that

he's a really clever guy

[hpdrifter]

I did this for awhile when I was watching a lot of sex and the city. I used to think in voice-over narration.

[b i o n i c]

lol ^

[Dorothy Wood]

I think in accents. I'm always talking in them too. Sometimes I have some Irish clients and I inadvertently speak in the same cadence they do. I think it makes them feel more comfortable (not that I'm doing it on purpose). We have a super rich Irish guy who comes in and gets stuff done for restaurants he owns and usually works with the owner. But last time, I helped him, and he really liked me. Then he asked my name (I have an common Irish name), and darn near fell over I think.

But that might just be my city, the Irish really stick together. I'm only pretend Irish though, my father's father's father was from Ireland. it doesn't really count.


anyway, I think the ability to mirror people is a strength. It makes you adaptable. I have a raging northern accent sometimes, but when I lived in Southern Ohio, I spoke with a lil southern drawl. so now I like to mix them together. I sound ridiculous!

[b i o n i c]

i dont think in accents but sometimes i think in different languages depending on where i am, which is cool and weird.

i have a small group friends that talk to eachother in accents a lot. its really out of hand, its been going on for YEARS. usually its how we greet eachother on the phone and most of the time its either tony montana or frank rizzo

i dont know why, but i cant stopppp!!!!!

i catch myself doing that mirroring thing too sometimes, but i actually try to not do it when i become conscious of it, i feel like the other person would think of it as mocking them. ive often noticed people mirroring me and it makes me uncomfortable for some reason