Brits who come to Canada and start saying stuff like "fricking" "mom" "ass" etc etc etc.
I despise pseudo canadian accents. :curse:

And I forgot f***ing "awesome"

When in Rome...

It's the accent, or the vernacular you despise?

And a Happy New Year to you too!

BOTH !! i loathe hearing folk from Bolton, saying "aaawesome" in a pathetic attempt to sound "Canadian".

My 5 year old son, with a yorkshire twang has started saying 'awesome' and 'ahhh maaaaaan'

I think its quite funny and no different to him picking up a yorkshire accent. Some people are mimics more than others.

Kids yeah... but grown adults??? Please...

Going native, eh? Oh, the horror of it.

Why the hell did you come to Canada then????

Er.... not to speak in a fake North American accent. Nothing against Canada Im v. happy here. I just cant stand fakes.

Being someone who hates learning new languages because I happen to very quickly pick up on pronunciations you would hate being in my presence. It has been noticed that just speaking to a Canadian on the phone I change to Canadian accent.

No-one in ol Blighty thought I was Swedish and traveling around Sweden I pick up local dialect there too.

It's totaly involuntary. Fact is, I can very rarely do accents on purpose. It just happens.

It's a blessing and a curse. It holds me back when learning new languages as locals think I'm local as soon as I open my mouth. The blessing being that I can slip in to the North American or British culture like a chameleon and no one would know I'm a foreigner.

I just cringe when I hear it. If I were back home in England and a Canadian started to copy my accent, I would think they were taking the p**s.
Its nothing to do with "going native". If I went to Pakistan I would not adopt a Pakistani accent, so why do it here. Be who you are I say. It sounds ridiculous. There is a chef at my workplace (from Bolton) who has been here 3 months and has this crazy Lancashire/North American accent, makes me want to slap him... Sorry but it drives me mad.

The only place it has gotten me in trouble is in Sweden when I've picked up the local accent. I've had to apologize profusely when doing that. My only defense being it is involuntary. I don't try to sound like them.

Seriously, why did you move?

I moved... to experience geographical/cultural change, dont want to live my whole life in one place.
for a better standard of living, which I have,
because I believe I am bringing my kids up in a better environment than back home,
because I have always loved Canada and wanted to move here since I was a child.
It does not mean that I have to become a "fake pretend Canadian"
We have made many Canadian friends and settled well.

There's a theory that nobody changes their accent without their permission.

I don't really mind anything except 'gotten'. Can't stand that.