News: Emerson Hyndman's Accent

It happens. When I lived in Hull I developed a small accent.

 

Does his Dad have a non-yank accent? I grew up among immigrants and my accent has been somewhat fluid over the years, even here in the US. My San Fran years sounded different than my Raleigh NC years.

 

My accent has also been fluid. My father is not a native English speaker, but my mother is. I didn't grow up anywhere close to where either of them did.

 

The experience is particularly pronounced among younger people/young adults.

If it leads to him having as much success abroad as Big Brad did (albeit hopefully somewhere other than Escocia) then 'ee can 'ave a wee bitta burr.

 

My Italian accent gets me made fun at work 2-3 times a month.

Jokes on them, I'm probably moving back to Roma in 5 months

 

His dad grew up in Dallas as his father was SMU coach for years. He was a good player too who had an injury that ruined his chances at a career as a player. Have never heard him but imagine he has at least a bit of a Texas or southern accent.

 

Ahhh! I never knew Schellas Hyndman was is grandfather. Just assumed it was his dad.

You know what they say about assuming.

 

Not only that, you can speak Italian, which is the best Latin-based language.

 

Keep in touch!

 

Not much is known about his dad so that's an easy one to make. His dad supposedly worked with him a lot one on one.

 

He's been there for years;it happens.

 

It happens to people with sensitive ears. Within days I find myself not exactly speaking with an "accent" per se, but speaking in their distinctively clipped cadence, which makes one sound almost as if one is affecting an accent, but not exactly. Accents of the British Isles tend to have a very catchy rhythm that's rather difficult not to mimic.

 

The Bay Area isn't home to a strong accent, but nonetheless I do find that I speak differently to people back home than I do in New York, than I did in England or in Europe.

In NY I don't sound stereotypically New Yorker, though, and that accent obviously is very distinctive. In the city that accent is dying out due to the influx of people from all over the country/world. It lives on in the suburbs, but I don't live in the suburbs.

 

"I would love an ongoing discussion on accents, just wonder if our hands will get slapped for being off-topic." (Spoken in part Brooklyn, part old South, part Lebanese Arabic.)

 

Don't people naturally pick up an accent because of a natural tendency to mimic the speech of our peers? Are you at the stage yet where you sound "between countries"? Like, my English friend in HS went back to England for vacation after 5 years Stateside. He still sounds English to me, but he said his friends in England thought he sounded American!

 

Met a guy the other day who I thought was maybe Scottish or northern English. Turns out he was Danish/Dutch and had lived in England, Australia and now US. How didn't I guess that?