Back in 1999, when I first went to the US, I was hanging around in Berkley.It was genuinely shocking to hear Americans saying intelligent things. I realised I'd become so accustomed to hearing the accent then the words being idiotic that I had to double-take when they turned out to be just as smart as anyone elsewhere.
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i have a similar problemwhenever i go to bristol. Exacerbated by one of my (late) mate's points that no matter what you say, be it the solution to the Higgs Boson conundrum, or Churchill's victory speech, if said in a deep bristollian accent, you sound like a moron.
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Fri 21 Nov 2008, 13:48,
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West Country accents can do that.I had a friend at uni who was from Bristol. It was a bit odd to hear a voice that should have talked about tractors discussing archaeology.
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