The nomenclature for the US accents is wildly incorrect, but these are good renditions of something.
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I used to work with a guy who would drop into accents when he was on the phone. Uncontrollably. It seemed to be a little stress related. If he was nervous about the call, it was more likely he’d end up in an accent.
Not bad. He attempted quite a few.
I used to work with a guy who would drop into accents when he was on the phone. Uncontrollably. It seemed to be a little stress related. If he was nervous about the call, it was more likely he’d end up in an accent.
@Rich
That sounds like code-switching. It’s a pretty well known phenomenon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code-switching
However, just so you know, he didn’t “drop into accents”. He changed which one he was using.