Hi I find this thread extremely intreasting I have autism I was born bread and live still in Liverpool I don't have an accent really at all my family have very broad Liverpool Scouse accents especially my mum and sister but no I can't do accents lol
I'm curious about this. I know people who do copy accents, I do it a little myself but not losing my own underlying regional. But it must be a critical issue whether it is just accents or mannerisms. Perhaps attention to spoken detail helps pick up the accent. Poor non-verbal recognition means we shouldn't pick up mannerisms? Or maybe we do in the process of learning how to present non-verbal, by a bit of acting.
Hence I might venture to suggest there might be an interesting experiment here - whether people who copy accents copy mannerisms too? Or whether mannerisms are entirely separate?
i'm the same, my friend has a very northern accent n i always pick it up from her even after a day with her (she goes away from where i live alot) i know this because other people at my work have noticed and pointed it out to me. i even speak like it in front of her sometimes, she doesnt mind but i do apologise coz i feel i'm copying her essentially but un-intentionally.
Catch people out from phone perceptions to turning up only to shock.
Made employers who presume male and fire female, conduct interviews they did not want to have, with the upmost discomfort delivered in the most professional manner of course.
The old "heyoka" creeping in there.
Learning regional accents by the dozen and identifying them easily enables me to place people and catch the cons in a flash.
Combine a geographical memory and an encyclopedic mind, "catch me if you can"
Foreigners love the clarity and play on accents, being a walking dictionary gets the odd teaching moments, Ahh dreams.
See you jimmy, and my mimmic on the jokes, you should hear my welsh, gold fish joke goes down a storm. Whats a good memorie for eh ?
i should have developed a strong bristolian accent, but i didn't. also i enjoy imitating accents and used to practice them, i have accent skills but cannot do impressions.
i have been complimented on the clarity of my english speech by many people from overseas, deaf people and others with communication difficulties.
lol my brother has AS an he grew up in Liverpool. When the family upped sticks to Whitby, North Yorkshire, he immediately developed a strong Yorkshire twang!
I have 'Wandering Accent Syndrome' myself, meaning that I pick up the accent of whoever I'm talking to. A little embarrassing sometimes as it can seem like I'm mocking them when I'm really not at all. It also tends to mean that people think I'm American when I'm out and about with my American partner, although I'm actually a London girl living in the South West.
On the flip side, a good friend of mine with more prominent AS than I have actually has an extremely strong and unwavering Bristol accent.
