Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
I think I will write a big essay about my experiences as an Englishman in ND.

I'm looking forward to reading it.

Hope I didn't sound too stupid in my last post. Of course I knew you had to have a British dialect. All I hear around here is that annoying Southern American dialect. Hope I'm not offending anybody, but I've lived here most of my life, so I think I'm allowed to say it. I hate the southern dialect. There are some variations that sound relatively charming, but others are just downright grating to my ears.

Interesting (at least I think so) story. My girlfriend was born in the "delta" and had a very thick accent as a little girl. When she showed me home movies of herself, I couldn't stop laughing because she sounds so different. When she got to be a certain age, she actually taught herself not to speak that way and to adopt a more "standard American". She helped tweak her dialect by, amazingly, emulating The Beatles.