Same here. I just have an ear for accents. In the southern US there are so many different versions. I can hear the differences and after a few days I need to be careful and pay attention. Certain accents are easier for me to pick up more quickly. It can be very embarrassing. I’m not trying to mock anyone or trying to fit in. It just happens.

This is a thing, a long term now ex gf of mine was from Mississippi and I developed a slight southern drawl after spending so much time with her and her family. I'm from Minnesota, my normal speaking voice is back now but it did take a bit of me catching myself doing it at first.

Can agree. I'm Canadian, and I never realized that many Canadians (my family as well) have a quick tempo to the way we speak, but I notice it more now that I've been in the states for a while. I can generally pick out another Canadian when I hear them. My partner does tend to speak at a faster pace because of it. Likewise, my partner is English (from round Liverpool), and omg the scouse! Lol. When we first got together, I could only understand like 3/4 of anything his dad said, but now I'm proper trained🤣 I find myself lapsing into the accent/slang without even knowing

This 100% happened to me when I spent a week camping next to a group of people from southern Ohio.

This is pretty natural and, IIRC, called 'code switching'. In this instance it's an alternate speaking style to better fit in with a dominant culture.

I do the same thing.

I don’t care if non-Americans imitate American accents. I also don’t mind when people mimic my Southern accent or giggle at my “all y’all”. They say mimicry is the highest form of flattery! And we could all of us around the world stand to relax a little bit

Half of American TV stars are from the UK or Australia, and they seem to get along fine, so long as the stick to the "standard" mid-atlantic accent. Kate Winslet was awesome in Mare of Easttown with her Delco accent (I live in Delaware County, although not from here, and she was spot on). It's when people try to over-the-top impersonations of accents that it sounds stupid. Usually you hear that with the South Boston or fake Southern accents. But in the same way that there's no such thing as an "Irish accent", there's no such thing as an "American accent". There are dozens, likely hundreds or even thousands. Even in the south, no two communities sound the same. Saying they all use y'all is like saying everyone who says "the" has the same accent. West Virginia, and the Tidewater regions of Virginia and North Carolina have some really strange accents, that could even be considered a separate dialect. I can't understand the people from Tangier VA, or the Hoi Toiders of NC.

I don't mind one foreigners do American accents, Idris Elba and Dominic West can do a pretty American accent.

If a person does a really good job of putting on an American accent, you won't realize that it's a put-on, will you? It's the lousy ones that are noticable, and that's why we don't like them - they're lousy.

I don't hate it when foreigners try to mimic an 'American' accent.

They were taking the p**s out of you and entertaining themselves at the same time. No one is bitter here. But we are sick of the 'my great great great great grandmother took a pee in a Bush passing through drogheda' so I'm Irish stories.

So true they portray us as lephrcrauns 🤣

Like Brad Pitt in Snatch?

"My favorite animal is steak." - Fran Lebowitz

Hmm… what if your favorite animals are a reptile, an amphibian AND a mammal? :)

Like us in louth. A mile up the road and its different.

Should have had his head hit of the tabernacle.

I'm wondering that too😂😂 I'm a proud Nigerian living in Spain.

Belfast and Dublin are night and day. Kerry and Dublin are completely different. It would be like comparing Brooklyn to the woods of North Carolina.

They can be wildly different - just like in the US. Sure they commonalities, but they are still very distinct.

That was from born and raised Irish bil. He says c u next Tuesday

Wait... you mean the Swedish Chef really is Swedish??? If "Foourszha yi taka zhi mittballe..." is authentic, ... I ... I'm going straight to the local Ikea....

You're so wrong. We all love the Swedish chef.

Weak 🤣🤣🤣 the cork accent is very unique

I lived in Cork for 6 months. It's true. There are so many different accents. To me, Galway sounds like movie Irish accent; N. Ireland sounds like growling; Dublin sounds like pirates; Cork people sound like singing leprechauns. Just my lil American ears' opinion of course.

Northern Ireland.

No! It clearly says if you were not born and raised here. Do not claim you are Irish. That's what it says and that's ridiculous and wrong. You're still Irish if it's in your dna regardless of where you were born. This entire post is just wrong as far as the way they said it.

It literally says "if you weren't born or raised in Ireland, you don't call yourself Irish". Not only is that factually wrong (you don't need either to become an Irish citizen), the phrase certainly doesn't just apply to American tourists. It can also easily be interpreted as xenophobic. He might have mentioned American tourists at the end but if the post was aimed just at them, it was an absolutely dreadful way of putting it.

And for those folks clutching their pearls because I said “redneck conservatives,” I ask you to look at all of the US politicians screaming for trumps’s stupid border wall and then get back to me on exactly how I’m wrong lol

The St. Patrick's Day parade in NYC is bigger than Dublin and the city of Chicago dyes their river green for it. Americans like to claim they are Irish when we aren't.

? Redneck conservatives??

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So, you try to explain something to someone by insulting someone else. Dial back the hate dude

Her post referred - obviously - to American opponents of immigration and what she feels is the contradiction of their positions. How widespread such paradoxical thinking is in the US was not the point of her post. But if you know anything about the wide range of views about immigration in the US, you also know that she could not be referring to all 330 million citizens.

Oh, I see - so there's absolutely no racism against any legal immigrant, at all - good to know.

Yeah, for sure, if you go back far enough - my point is the habit of a number of people in the US who identify as 'Irish-American', 'Italian-American' etc who, in the same breadth, will tell an 'Asian-American' to 'go back to where you came from' (these are of course examples, the mix or who's told to go back can be of any nationality).