I think I have to blame the Bugs. Bugs Bunny to be exact. Him and all his looney friends, Pepe Le Pew/Penelope, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, all the way to Coyote and Roadrunner; they influenced me as a child! After school, I would run home to watch the last half hour of cartoon lunacy, fascinated by the ideas, the comical "set-ups". :)
At some young age, don't remember which, I began using voices to express ideas. (Corny, I know.) I think those that use "accents" to express themselves are extremely artistic. It's how we see the world, how we use "colors" to make everyday life vivid, or amusing. I don't think we see "normal". LOL How boring!
I used to work with a wonderful woman, Marianne, from England. She spoke with a cockney accent, would tell me all about her life as a girl in England, and try to talk "American", which didn't work so well! She cracked me up, but I noticed after awhile that I would easily slip into an accent as well. I couldn't help it,..it was embarrassing!! LOL It's like having multiple personalities in spanish, french, english, russian, german, "translyvanian", southern drawl, Jersey,....whatever I hear becomes part of my speech pattern! Maybe I was a parrot in a former life?
Well now I've been forced to add "red-neck" to my list! For quite awhile now I have tried desperately to hold off talking like a "cb-er". Now I'm on the cb-radio, "dets uh big ten-four", "gotta poler bar on duh side", "eeval kaneevl 'round my beck dor".... ach, somebody help me!
LOL
Perhaps my next project will be a clinic..... a clinic to try to cure the "accent" impaired!
Welcome to "Ze Cleeneek Fur Duh Accent Emparred"
*Wink
The Magicians Owl
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