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dianthus
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21 Mar 2015, 1:37 pm

will@rd wrote:
dianthus wrote:
Then it's too weird to talk to someone on the phone, and have them saying how I'm different than they expected.


:D I used to meet a lot of people over the phone, then later meet them in RL, and I got that all the time - I thought you'd have dark hair, yada yada yada...reminds me of Roadhouse, when everybody who meets Patrick (Dalton) Swayze for the first time says "I thought you'd be bigger." :roll:


Almost every internet friend I've spoken to on the phone couldn't get over my Southern accent. Some people have been very rude about it.

The first internet friend I ever spoke to on the phone said something like..."Wow you have a Southern accent...but you sounded so smart in your emails." :roll: Then she actually denied that she was revealing her own prejudice.

I made the mistake of meeting a guy in person, after the very first thing he said to me on the phone was, "You sound like a hick." Never again. :evil:

On the other hand, it has made me realize how much a person who meets me for the first time face-to-face might misjudge me by my accent (such as work supervisors who get transferred in from other parts of the country).



LovingGaijin
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21 Mar 2015, 7:36 pm

Well heck, a friend I met online turned out to be one of the most awesome people I know. These "Vapor friends" can be quite great. Just be careful, they might not be who they say they are.