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wispfox ([personal profile] wispfox) wrote2014-12-16 02:25 pm
Entry tags:

speech, accents

I got curious. So you get a poll!

[Poll #1992443]

[identity profile] weegoddess.livejournal.com 2014-12-17 12:53 pm (UTC)(link)
I've been known to intentionally mimic a person's accent in order to help them feel more comfortable. Not a friend's accent, mind, but clients. Having a business in the UK helped me hone this skill. And it's not merely in spoken communication; I found that there was Brit-business-speak in writing too. Even just matching the 'music' of my speech to the other person's seems to help.

It's hard to know whether I have natural tendencies to use my ear to attune to different accents, or I just learned it from my years as a speech-language pathologist.

[identity profile] wispfox.livejournal.com 2014-12-17 04:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmm! Neat. :)