Do u have an accent?

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I have an accent

I used to have an accent but i lost it over the years

I love accents

I hate accents

I dont usually notice or care about accents

I dont have an accent

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As someone with an accent i always wondered how other people feel about them or their experience having one. Maybe its just me but i always have it in the back of my head while speaking to someone. Im also wondering if imma lose it completely once i move for good. If that happened to u pls share ur experience.

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DrWatson · 70-79, M

We all have accents. (Even "textbook perfect speech" is one way of speaking, so I think it would still be considered an accent.} But mine has changed over time, I used to have more of a New York City accent than I do now.

Fifty years after high school graduation, I got a message online from someone I knew in my New York HS . When I talked to her on the phone, I was amazed at what a heavy New York accent she had. I wondered, "Is that what she sounded like back then? Is that what I sounded like back then? Is that what we all sounded like back then?" When I remember high school, I imagine people speaking in the accent I am currently surrounded by here in the American Midwest, but of course that is not how people would have spoken at that time and place.