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

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I've got my Midlander accent from growing up in Staffordshire England but its not as broad as others in the village/ area but neither was my moms or Nans (my NT sisters was broad though). The odd thing is that I've lived away the last 15 years and haven't picked up any of the local accents (apart from local places/ words). Only one I have any noticeable amount of is from PA, USA and lived there for less time than any other place. Friends seem to pick up the local accents within months and its not just down to isolation as I mix with the locals when I can.

As a British person you sound very Australian to me

he sounded very ABC to me.

No, but I got an accent no matter which language I speak.

Was told I sound like a San Franciscan.

Took it as a compliment and rightly so. As I am, born and raised.

i would like to know how a san franciscan sounds compared to a seattleite.

No, I currently live in 'Joesey but was born in Maryland. I have a pretty bad lisp and use the British pronunciation of certain words such as "lever" and pronounce pronounce tomato and other words differently.

I speak a bit more newsreaderish than the majority of my peers. I was raised in a council estate on the outskirts of Glasgow and most people there do speak with a distinctive accent/dialect. I have the accent and can do the dialect, but tend towards standard English for the most part. It has a lot to do with my education. I'm partly privately educated, where the 'polish' seemed to be more important than what was learned. Also, the dialect has been unfairly treated over the years, with children being told 'Speak properly' or 'Don't speak slang'. Although I strongly disagree with those statements now, I took them to heart, as a child.

lol

Ya got me there!

the reason i ask is because seattlites have a very slight back-of-the-throat "wor-shin-tun" thing going on, whereas los angelenos have a very slight nasal twang/exaggerated hard R sound going on, so i figured that maybe san fran was somewhere in between those two. correct me if i'm wrong here.

Speaking Dutch, I've always spoken in the standard Dutch accent. I live in Amsterdam, but havewn't picked up the local accent, nor did I adopt the southern North Brabant accent when I lived there from age 3 to 16.

Sometimes I can sound a little bit 'Goois', though. With an English 'r', and everything.

I have frequently heard that my accent does not conform to any typical Norwegian dialects, and sometimes people from the very same town I have lived my entire life in ask me where I'm from. Apparently I speak a very "correct", "bookish", neutral sounding version of Bokmål norwegian.

I've read in literature (though I can't for the life of me remember where), that many people with HFA or Asperger will adopt a speech pattern that is 'unusually formal', because that is supposedly the ideal medium for objective communication without all the silly informal social frills. Speaking in the standard form of the native language would fit with that.

On another note, when I started working at a factory where English was the main language, I spoke English with something of a Southern California accent. High rising terminal, overuse of the interjection 'like'. I tried to introduce the Queen's English (British Received Pronunciation) into my speech patterns, but I still feel comfy with SoCal-esque inflections. It's honestly a mix of British, American, and Dutch accents.

Yeah, I have read the same thing. Also, in relation to foreign languages, as you began to talk about your English accent, I have heard that I do not change my accent to nearly the same degree as others do when I speak a foreign language. It has been pointed out to me that all my classmates in my English Literature classes changed their native accent to some degree when speaking in English, but I sounded pretty much exactly the same as when I speak in Norwegian.

Um, no; only because most people speak in an 'urbanized', 'street' version of english, which I hate. Although, there are exceptions of some of my neighbors that speak like or the same as myself (in Standard English, in a Southern English accent) ; they usually have come from the 'posh' parts of London or were brought up in the countryside.

I STILL have the local accent to where I grew up. Admittedly, it's a very hard one to shake. I can't really hear it myself even though I haven't lived where I grew up in 17 years. All throughout college people would comment on my weird accent. Then Grad school. Now at work. So annoying.