I grew up in Alabama
Do you have a southern accent?
I usually have a soft Southern accent, but if I go back home or talk to people from home, I have a more pronounced Southern accent, although not quite as pronounced as the Southern accent that I had while I was growing up. I always had less of a Southern accent than the rest of my family and the other people around me; however, even when I was a child.
Why is that? (the part about it being that you seem to have LESS accent than the rest of your family and friends where you grew up)
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I have always heard the same thing about myself. A week in Texas and my wife makes fun of me for talking like a hick (uhm, like my family does).
These days she accuses me of trying to sound "ignorant" on the telephone, because my Texas accent comes forth when I talk on the telephone.
I wonder why it would be so obvious that I have trouble maintaining a neutral sounding speech when I am on the phone.
BTW, I don't try to hide an accent, but I try to speak in a way that is more universally understood. Opening my mouth and not skipping vowels as much, for instances.
... or as it is said ... in a true Texas accent, all the letters kinda "lean on each other.". I try hard to make all the letters all stand up, each on its own when I speak.
