----- Original Message -----
From: "Kelly, Katie" <kkelly@spss.com>
To: "Donald R McKenna" <donbarbmckenna@earthlink.net>; "Barry Spencer"
<bspencer@tsoft.com>; <Smokerbros@aol.com>; <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
Cc: "Jane" <MeRacingal@aol.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 10:33 AM
Subject: RE: Accents, was: Re: ALL THINGS MUST PASS
> Don McKenna writes...
>
> >Last month, up in B.C., a waitress asked where we were from, when we
> told
> >her she said she'd already guessed California. When we asked how, she
> said
> >it was our accents!
>
> I got a lot of comments about my Californian accent when I was in
> Vancouver, although no one really came out and said, "Why do you talk so
> funny?" which they could have. Back when I was studying at the
> prestigious Bakersfield Academy of Performing Arts (Cal State
> Bakersfield, don't ask me why), I was marked down for my "bubbly" Bay
> Area accent. But at least my advisor said it was bubbly.
>
> I find accents really fascinating, and all of them possess their own
> charm. I wish people would stop moving so much, so there could be some
> consistency. I listen to everyone talk, and I try to guess where they're
> from. One time, in Berlin, I accurately guessed (it was, indeed,
> guessing) that this girl in a hostel I met was from Los Gatos, because
> she said, "Yes, definitelay" just like these girls I knew on my college
> swim team, also from Los Gatos.
>
> Did you know that there was once a San Francisco accent? My grandmother,
> an immigrant from Spain to San Francisco, had an accent, but she arrived
> when she was two. She had different speech inflections than say someone
> from the Central Valley. It was almost like she was from New York. She
> also waved her arms around when she talked, like she was exasperated
> with us. Because I think she was.
>
> Barry, I chide you only in friendly jest. You have a very pleasant
> accent, a blend of English and American, totally unique and nice on the
> ear.
>
> Katie
>
WOW, is that an invite so I can get closer to your ears. When is the next
autox :>))))) Ears are cold this time of year, unless you have hats like
Katie......
Barry
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