Friday, January 27, 2006
Random Thought Before Departing for London for a Weekend Jaunt
I suspect that I would be 4% more intriguing if I had a British accent. Not a fake British accent like Madonna, but a real one from growing up there. (To be honest, I’d even settle for a return of my slight Chicago accent, which seems to have faded in the 11 years I’ve been living in New York.) A British accent would rock.
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so accents can be way cool. i almost moved in with a trinadian woman. when i first met her, her accent started to drive me wild, but not in the way you that you would think. i kept wishing in my head that she would just say: oliver, honey, can i make you some roti?
ReplyDeletemmm, roti.
Wait...so you're just going for a weekend trip, just for the hell of it?! Take me with you! LOL...
ReplyDeleteJust to warn you, I will at some point begin speaking with a quasi English accent. Most American women I know who have been in London for more than 8 months pick one up. It's aggravating - not quite a Brit accent, but certainly not an American one. There's simply inflections and phrases that you need to use here, or have to repeat yourself 3 times to shop keepers. You can let me know if it makes me 4% cooler. Heck, I'd settle for cool AT ALL.
ReplyDeletesome accents are definitely cool, and some are not. unfortunately for me, brooklyn/queens accents are not so cool, unless you are a thug in a wifebeater, which i am not...
ReplyDeleteI will confirm (being the possessor of an allegedly plummy English accent) that it is a near-universal conversation starter when I travel. Especially in the US.
ReplyDeleteThen again, maybe it isn't my accent that gets peoples attention - maybe it's the inanity of what I say. Oh well.