confessions of a reformed tourist
I crossposted yesterday’s “on accents” to my Tumblr, and two of the responses (reblogs) I got were so interesting I can’t resist quoting them here. The first to weigh in was adsinfinitum, who wrote: Another point of interest for me is how people are so determined to assign you an accent. How they feel the [...]
I’m always amused when I hear someone make a definitive declaration regarding his or her lack of accent. Or, even funnier, statements such as “there is no such thing as a British accent”. Because of course you do and of course there is. I can understand how, for example, a person from England might bristle [...]
