• flicker@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    @Chetzemoka

    I came here to say essentially the same thing. It’s hillbilly code-switching; if you speak without an accent most of the time, but then meet someone who speaks that way, you can put the accent “back on” again and immediately gain a massive boost to your charisma stat when you need it.

    I do it all the time at work. No accent until I’m providing care for someone with a southern accent, then bam! “Well, ah doan know whai inneewon wooden lissen to me!”

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      1 year ago

      YEP. Same. It’s always entertaining at work to watch a colleague who’s never heard my accent before hear me speak to a patient from Appalachia or the south