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Researchers believe it's a way for gay people to either mimic or signal to each other that they're gay. Closeted gay people, for instance, sound a lot less stereotypically gay than an outed one. Furthermore, gay people in other countries don't often sound discernibly different from everyone else unless they've been exposed to the same social cue. It's a learned trait, basically