I've lost my native accent...

[MercenaryCanary]

If you take a look at my profile you can see I am from America.
However if you listen to me speak you would have thought I had just arrived from Britain.
Since I wanted people to know that it was me talking I decided to talk with my mom's boyfriend and start developing a British accent.
At first I started using it only in one class and in a few matches.Then I started to use it in all the matches I played and in 5 classes.Now it has grow to replace my old distant, stuttering, American accent with a new fast, stutter free accent with my classmates imitating me with a broken result.
However I have completely forgotten how to speak like I used to.As you can imagine this has caused... problems.
So basically what I would like to know if this has actually been happened to any other people or if any one else has shared a similar fate to me.

 

[NewClassic_v1legacy]

I tend to waiver between Mid-Western American and Southern here in college since the accents in Northern Louisiana are much stronger than they are where I grew up. But it's never a permanent thing. Although if I watch too many ZP videos in a row, I start speaking quickly like I used to in Elementary school.

Otherwise, nothing permanent or major. Although I probably could, if I tried hard enough.

 

[a big stupid idiot]

I have, like, four different accents.

Boston, Hillbilly, British and Surfer.

I don't even know where I picked up most of them.

 

[Monkfish Acc.]

I've managed to maintain a cosmopolitan accent for the greater part of my life, but it isn't actualy my "native" accent. As a child I had a prominant english accent, but I decided to ditch it when I moved to Ireland and the kids started to pick on me for being english. When I attempted to adopt an irish accent, they'd mock me for "trying to be irish", so in the end I decided to just ditch accents altogether. Go me!

 

[Eldritch Warlord]

Couldn't you try a stutter-free Midwestern, there's no accent more intelligible? (joking). Out of curiosity which British accent have you developed and which American accent did you lose?

As for me I've spoken a generic Mid-western accent my whole life, not even local slang (I rather dislike slang). But I do try to imitate accents when pronouncing native words, often to the annoyance of others.

 

[shatnershaman]

I have tried to lose any accent. Works mostly with the exception of the occasionally "eh".

 

[implodingMan]

I've got a generic English Canadian accent. The only thing that kind of sets me apart from my peers is that my voice is fairly deep.

 

[Carter06]

I've managed to maintain a cosmopolitan accent for the greater part of my life, but it isn't actualy my "native" accent. As a child I had a prominant english accent, but I decided to ditch it when I moved to Ireland and the kids started to pick on me for being english. When I attempted to adopt an irish accent, they'd mock me for "trying to be irish", so in the end I decided to just ditch accents altogether. Go me!

When i first read this i was going to correct you by saying it is impossible to lose accents as it is the way you speak. But really this is impressive how the hell did you manage that and what does this generic world encompassing "non-accent" sound like.

I'm being sincere here i really want to know.

 

[Spartan Bannana]

It's interesting, my family hasn't been form Ireland for four generations, yet for some reason I have an Irish-American accent, I can't figure it out

 

[Eldritch Warlord]

It's interesting, my family hasn't been form Ireland for four generations, yet for some reason I have an Irish-American accent, I can't figure it out

Do your parents?

 

[MercenaryCanary]

Out of curiosity which British accent have you developed and which American accent did you lose?

I've asked and it seems to be a northern variant.

 

[squiggothhunter]

Ive gone from deep south arkansas to british monotone to generic midwestern
if im talking to someone who talks like any of those i can pull it out but i cant speak fluently with those accents anymore

 

[ElephantGuts]

I don't think I have an accent. I've just always talked the same way and obviously it doesn't sound weird to me. I don't do foreign accents very well either, I can yell out various phrases in German copied out of WW2 games, and I can use a British accent for a few words sort of well. That's just about it. Actually I do Russian/Eastern European accent pretty well.

 

[TheGhostOfSin]

My accent is un-loseable(is that a word?) and I enjoy having it as it causes no end of confusion to non-brits.

 

[stompy]

You must be under 15; from what 've heard, when you turn 15, you lock in the accent you have, meaning that you'll always at least a trace of that accent. Of course, what I've heard; don't quote me on it.

As me, I've got a middle-class Sydney-sider accent, so not too posh, and not too bogan.

 

[Phantom2595]

My parents are form Ukraine so I guess I have a Russian/Eastern European accent.

Hell , I'm not sure what accent I have , I just speak the way I speak ......

I'm gonna go record myself , I never really thought about it .

 

[Graustein]

I have no idea what my accent is, and my friends can't seem to agree either. Sometimes they say I sound English, sometimes they say I sound American, and sometimes I sound like an ordinary Aussie.

 

[ThaBenMan]

I'm from Maine, and there is a definite accent that a lot of Mainers (or "Mainahs") have, similar to the Boston or Massachusetts accent: car = cah, etc. My parents speak with it, but I don't (probably from watching too much tv and movies).

 

[Spartan Bannana]

It's interesting, my family hasn't been form Ireland for four generations, yet for some reason I have an Irish-American accent, I can't figure it out

Do your parents?

No
That's the weird thing

 

[AuntyEthel]

I live in Blighty, but still have my lovely droll South African accent. Everyone here still thinks I'm from Australia though for some odd reason.