studying, accents, flapjacks

[deralte]

I am getting really sick of studying. All my enthusiasm is gone - not that I was that enthusiastic to begin with, but just sitting down to study last night made my eyes droop, so I went to bed early and now feel slightly more awake. *sigh*

To continue the random talk there's been of accents, I thought I should note that dizziebeth stopped me at the con and asked, "What's happened to your accent?" I stared at her and asked if she'd been reading lj, and she said no. Apparently, over the past few months, my accent took a serious, noticable turn toward British pronounciation. At least half of the words I say are no longer in an American accent. lucyjin concures. Now you must picture me blinking in bemusement and wondering why it took four years for this to suddenly happen.

In other news, Tesco's flapjacks are awesome. I still wish I could find the raspberry ones I ate in first year, but the uni store isn't stocking them anymore. It's a pity cause they made a great meal.

Comments

[dsky.livejournal.com]

"Apparently, over the past few months, my accent took a serious, noticable turn toward British pronounciation. At least half of the words I say are no longer in an American accent."

ONE OF US! ONE OF US!

[deralte.livejournal.com]

*giggles madly* Does this mean I have to go marry a dwarf now?

[dsky.livejournal.com]

Yes!

Oh, and you have to drink tea and eat scones!

[deralte.livejournal.com]

Two out of three isn't bad...

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

Forget the scones. It's all about crumpets!

[deralte.livejournal.com]

Mmm, crumpets...

[dsky.livejournal.com]

Man, I'd forgotten about the crumpets.

[oldjanxspirit.livejournal.com]

Perhaps your accent was just stronger than say other regional accents. Crumpets all the way!

[tritoneclarinet.livejournal.com]

Well, I notice that now that I've been in New Hampshire for three years, I'm really picking up that accent. I think it's all a result of immersion in that particular speaking style. Likely you just needed to be around it long enough to unconciously start prefering that particular speech syntax.

[deralte.livejournal.com]

It'll be interesting to see what happens when I move back to America for awhile.

[modern-maria.livejournal.com]

You may have a new accent, but at least you're still speaking English! I've started outright saying certain phrases in French and thinking many more. Haven't dreamt in French yet, however.

I bought a book on French culture. It says do not smile and do not make eye contact with strangers as they will take it as a come on. I thought of you and your stalkers. Heh. What fun, what fun I'll have (what with me already being stalker bait).

[deralte.livejournal.com]

So that's what I was doing wrong! *sigh* I'd agree with that book if I didnt' know there were days when I wasn't smiling at all, nor making eye contact...

I say random phrases in french as well. 'Je ne sais pas' is my favourite it seems. I have had several dreams in french, including one wehre I was reading toys r us adverts in perfect french.