Do you speak with the same accent as people in your area?

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There is a lot I actually like about Florida. It's too bad that the people here ruin it. Where I live in particular, because it is low-income, tends to be overrun with rather low class and uneducated people. I find it annoying as I rarely find anyone worth talking to. Is it sad that the local high school's claim to fame is that it has turned out several well-known porn stars? Yup... come to (insert my town here), where your little girl will likely end up in porn and everyone is addicted to pain killers!

It took a while for my colleagues to realize that English wasn't my first language.

I can't really go there with you as I'm a high school dropout who has never had an income that was above the poverty line. To be fair, I am also a college dropout (three times). However, I think you're looking at structural/societal problems and making it the fault of those who are caught in them. When people have limited opportunities, their lives reflect that. It's not as if they could want out badly enough and make it happen. There are too many obstacles for some.

Pornography pays really well, and as far as I'm concerned if someone can make it that way, go for it. There was one point in my life where I nearly went into sex work to support myself. The only thing that stopped me was being socially clueless enough that my attempt to get into it failed. And, I mean, a few people I know and respect are or used to be in pornography.

Where I live, in Wales, it is three miles from the English border and there is a mixture of north-east Welsh accents & Scouse ( people from Liverpool ) accents.

Over the years my own accent has changed from an accent where some people would confuse me with being a Scouser, to now; where two Indian colleagues told me that I have a television commentators accent. Also recently, another work colleague asked me where I was from, I told him and he said that I have no detectable accent, at all.

I'm sure that I have purposely changed my accent over the last sixteen or so years.

Note: People from Liverpool are commonly known as Scousers and their accent is commonly known as Scouse.

People has always asked about the way my Aspie daughter speaks since she began speaking with other people (and the beginning she would not speak in front of strangers, to the point someone one time told me she thought my kid was mute). I think the thing is she speaks properly, pronouncing every word the way it is... and people usually do not do that. So yes, kind of like a broadcast announcer. But I have always find it beautiful. She has the most beautiful musical voice. But people always asks where she is from. And that makes her mad.

I pick up accents very quickly depending on who I've been hanging around. When I went to college, two of my closest friends were from the same area and had the same accent, and I started pronouncing my words like they did...even though no one in my college down had this accent. I grew up on Long Island, where they have a very distinct accent...yet people comment all the time to me how I don't have the accent at all (I wouldn't want it anyway!).

Nope, my accent is about the same to everyone else.

I don't have the strong Southern England farmers accent though, but I do have a Southern accent.

I have a very generic accent. However this is due to the fact that I am English, brought up by English parents mainly in Scotland. So I sound like I am from possibly Edinburgh (its a neutral Scottish accent leaning towards sounding English) but can also sound very Glasweigen (quite a broad Scots accent) if I am speaking to a weegie on the phone which I do at work. However even if I am sounding neutral I have various colloquisms which give away my actual region.

I agree with you in theory as it is not nice to stereotype people and I too am a college drop out two times over. I do see the people around here a bit differently than most though because I deliver pizza for a living and get to see a slice of life (no pun intended) that most rarely ever will. It's a job that tends to make you a bit more cynical than most just because of how much you get exposed to going to a hundred or so homes a week and seeing how the people actually live. In the end, I think we can both agree that Florida is a place with limited economic opportunities and that leads people to take negative paths at times. If you are not well suited to the healthcare industry then you are left with little more than service industry jobs or working in agriculture as, for the most part, that describes the vast majority of what is available here. I have considered moving to another state but my family is here and I am afraid to live in a place where they are not. Plus, I like the lack of a state income tax and vehicle inspections, not to mention that I could get a concealed weapons permit here if I ever wanted to.

So far as the porn industry goes, I consider it negative since it uses people up in the prime of their lives and then throws them away when they no longer look cute and young. I too have known others through friends who went into it and know how their lives turned out. They became drug addicts and eventually went into prostitution. Am I guilty of watching a little too much internet porn? Sadly, yes. It's a fact I am not really proud of but it's sort of borne of my circumstances since I am nearly 40 and have never been able to so much as have a girlfriend. It still doesn't make it right in my mind though as I see myself as being guilty of exploiting these people by proxy and I wish I could stop supporting something I see as repugnant.

no i do not. i speak in my own way, and i never picked up any local influences . i have lived here all my life and i have an accent which is quite adequate to express what i want to say, but average australians often ask me if i am british.
i know british people will hear me as very australian, but australian people wonder if i am british.
here is my accent
http://www.soundclick.com/player/single ... 34956&q=hi

Most people judge my voice accent as "flat and monotonous".

I think I've read somewhere that these are a characteristic of AS. Is it true? Do you guys have it?

My daughter's therapist said her tone was monotonous. And that it was a characteristic of AS. I never thought her accent was monotonous. I always loved the way she speaks. I find it musical, and lovely. But then again, people always asked me where I was from, so maybe I have the same issue and that is why I do not notice it.

You may think you don't have any particular accent, but try to tell this to a foreigner. I don't think I have an accent, but the Brits tell me I have an accent. Some people in this country depending what section they are from think I have a British accent. Others think I have an accent of people from around the Chicago area. Yet others think I sound like a black person. So I think it is the person that is listening to you note your accent and draws an opinion.

Me too. I attribute this to the fact that I was raised on BBC radio programs and watch a lot of British television now. It does sound very out of place considering I live in South East Asia.

I've also been told that I sound terminally bored.

I have that "flat and monotonous" sound as well, combined with a nasal voice. Otherwise I speak (Swedish) very much like any local person of my area (a part of Sweden), so anyone could place me there from hearing me speak. Another characteristic is that I do speak rather blurry and mumbling, so people often have difficulties hearing what I say.

Oh yeah, my dad used to complain that I'm mumbling all the time.