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losingit1973
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16 Jun 2019, 5:20 pm

PoseyBuster88 wrote:
I did think of one potential "perk" from this though - I have noticed that I am better at interpreting what people mean who speak broken English, have thick accents, etc. I think because I have gotten so used to having to piece together "clues" to understand people in noisy environments. So I'm used to having to think about the context, body language, lip-reading, etc. to figure out what the words I didn't understand could have been.

You may be on to something. I too can often understand someone with a rhick accent when others can not.


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17 Jun 2019, 8:43 am

losingit1973 wrote:
You may be on to something. I too can often understand someone with a thick accent when others can not.

I have to be a little bit careful with this - after a while, I start picking up the other person's accent and dialect without realising that I'm doing it. A few people have accused me of mocking the way they speak in the past because of this - including people with stutters or echolalia at autism meet-ups. Oddly, I can't mimic an accent on purpose to save my life, I can only do it when it's completely involuntary.


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17 Jun 2019, 10:01 am

Trogluddite wrote:
losingit1973 wrote:
You may be on to something. I too can often understand someone with a thick accent when others can not.

I have to be a little bit careful with this - after a while, I start picking up the other person's accent and dialect without realising that I'm doing it. A few people have accused me of mocking the way they speak in the past because of this - including people with stutters or echolalia at autism meet-ups. Oddly, I can't mimic an accent on purpose to save my life, I can only do it when it's completely involuntary.


I do that too! We live in a very diverse area, and if I am not VERY careful, I start speaking broken/accented English back to my neighbors...


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17 Jun 2019, 10:13 am

My mum does this. I only do it a little and then have to stop myself. I don't have an accent as I was accused of being English by Welsh people and Welsh by English people!
My mum copies accents so well she became expert at telephone interviewing and was able to get results where others failed to do... as everyone assumed my mum was a local person when she was phoning right round the country! Because my mum does this automatically (She can't help it!" I almost thought that everyone does it over the phone!
I was once approached by someone on the BBC who wanted me to work on the radio as he heard me announcing on the trains, but back then I was in my element working on the trains...


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17 Jun 2019, 10:45 am

losingit1973 wrote:
PoseyBuster88 wrote:
I did think of one potential "perk" from this though - I have noticed that I am better at interpreting what people mean who speak broken English, have thick accents, etc. I think because I have gotten so used to having to piece together "clues" to understand people in noisy environments. So I'm used to having to think about the context, body language, lip-reading, etc. to figure out what the words I didn't understand could have been.

You may be on to something. I too can often understand someone with a thick accent when others can not.


I do kind of the opposite. If someone has a thick accent, I won't understand a thing until someone tells me what language and accent it is. After that I understand them crystal clear.