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Texas accent may be an asset when job hunting....

 

:laugh: So, has anyone here ever won or lost a job because of an accent?

 

In school I got ribbed pretty bad for a number of years for my accent which I inherited from my parents (I tended to say things like "Worsh" instead of "Wash")....which considering my bad temper was a fairly dangerous thing to do, picking on my accent. :laugh:

 

Now that I'm older I no longer try to mask my natural manner of speaking. I just go with it. Can't say it's lost me any jobs or won me any. Maybe I should talk like a Texan?

Edited by admiralpeewee

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I am from New York and I am planning on changing my accent anytime soon.

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Apparently my Irish accent is fairly strong and has always been more of an asset than anything else while travelling. Doesn't matter over here, nobody thinks I have an accent in Ireland, only comes up when I'm out of the country.

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Isn't a Texan accent the same as a regular southern accent? Well I got me one of those!

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THis isn't an accent thing but a regional thing. I visited jaina from here and we had a discussion about which was correct, soda or pop. :laugh:

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All Southern accents are not the same :laugh:

 

It's so funny when I lived in the West people tried to joke I had a Southern accent - while people at home would ask where I was from because I didn't talk like I was from the South.

 

The best I can say is that I probably have an ecclectic accent because I've lived in different regions and picked up different speech habits.

 

Although I will say I had an experience similar to the admiral's and I will never, ever, ever, ever say the word water as if it had an r in it.

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I had a boss from my first command that didn't like my New York accent and tried to change it. It didn't work. First I like my accent very much. Second I don't like the push that seems to go on in US with everyone having the same accent. :laugh:

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I do not think my job has been affected by the way I talk. I personally do not think I have an accent, but many people think I have one that is foreign (usually one of my ancestries - Norwegian, Danish, German, Polish, Irish, Welsh, Scottish, Cree Indian... mainly it will all come down to Norwegian, German, Irish or Scottish that people say I have. *shrug* I do not know...)

 

Only person online from this site that has heard me via voice chat is Data.. I do not know if he thinks I have an accent or not.

 

 

 

People also say I sound a lot different than I look :laugh: One customer heard me on the intercom and thought I was much older than I really am & look. LOL, Personally I take that as a complement to say I have a more mature voice :laugh:

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"Cost ya kick a bow against da wow and 'ead it till it bosts?"

 

Can you kick a ball against the wall and head it until it bursts?

 

 

This is the sort of things said in the Potteries, (where Pot Banks used to be), where I live. I talk a bit Potterish but not like dat!

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one of my classmates were being a bit rasist to out substitute earth science teacher because of her accent and her nationality. me and my friend reported him to the sub and the normal teacher. i hope he get in school for that she was one of the nicest subs i have ever had.

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