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Forum: USA
Jul 17th 2016, 1:22 am
Replies: 31
Views: 2,683
Posted By Pulaski

Re: Noone can understand my accent (I'm Australian)

I agree 100%, with the added bonus for me that my accent has the opposite effect on women here in the US that it seemed to have on women in London.
Forum: USA
Jul 16th 2016, 5:19 pm
Replies: 31
Views: 2,683
Posted By Pulaski

Re: Noone can understand my accent (I'm Australian)

I agree, but comments on my accent are 9:1 or more, women to men.
Forum: USA
Jul 16th 2016, 5:15 pm
Replies: 31
Views: 2,683
Posted By Pulaski

Re: Noone can understand my accent (I'm Australian)

I thought you came from Brizzle? :unsure:

Says he who came from Sheffield. :lol:
Forum: USA
Jul 16th 2016, 2:28 pm
Replies: 31
Views: 2,683
Posted By Pulaski

Re: Noone can understand my accent (I'm Australian)

Refined and sophisticated. :nod:
Forum: USA
Jul 16th 2016, 1:40 pm
Replies: 31
Views: 2,683
Posted By Pulaski

Re: Noone can understand my accent (I'm Australian)

Sounds like my experience, as I am rarely asked if I am Australian - my accent is a mild Sheffield one. I have sometimes wondered if somehow my "air" is British. :unsure:
Forum: USA
Jul 14th 2016, 5:27 pm
Replies: 31
Views: 2,683
Posted By Pulaski

Re: Noone can understand my accent (I'm Australian)

I rarely see or communicate with any Brits where I live, and although I am not the only Brit with my employer, I rarely have reason to speak to them, not even our London office these days.

I...
Forum: USA
Jul 14th 2016, 1:55 pm
Replies: 31
Views: 2,683
Posted By Pulaski

Re: Noone can understand my accent (I'm Australian)

Where are you from, in the UK? I am from Sheffield and my accent doesn't seem to have changed much since I left there when I was eight years old.

I have only been in the US for fourteen years,...
Forum: USA
Jul 12th 2016, 1:02 pm
Replies: 31
Views: 2,683
Posted By Pulaski

Re: Noone can understand my accent (I'm Australian)

Don't tell everyone that! :sneaky:

I haven't noticed those, but "so'dder" for "solder" drives me nuts! :frown:
Forum: USA
Jul 12th 2016, 12:21 pm
Replies: 31
Views: 2,683
Posted By Pulaski

Re: Noone can understand my accent (I'm Australian)

I usually attribute that to what I call "accent glaze", which mostly affects women, and is what happens when women are more interested in your accent, which they "just lurve", than in what you're...
Forum: USA
Jul 12th 2016, 10:53 am
Replies: 31
Views: 2,683
Posted By Pulaski

Re: Noone can understand my accent (I'm Australian)

I couldn't effect an American accent if my life depended on it, but I have adopted some American pronunciations such as tomayto, ledduce, wadder, and gah-rhage, (which all probably sound weird with...
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