A study in dialects October 7, 2010UncategorizedAnthropology, Language, Language phylogenyGreg Laden … of English: The nomenclature for the US accents is wildly incorrect, but these are good renditions of something. Like this:Like Loading...
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. Reply
@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. Reply
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.