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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know an American guy (born and raised) who spent two years in the UK and now speaks with an English accent. It drives me so crazy, I can’t even talk to him. I don’t understand why someone would do this and - as an otherwise totally chill person - I literally just avoid him so I won’t rage.[/quote]

Like Mark Steyn who's Canadian but uses a fake British accent[/quote]

There was a guy in our med school class who went to Australia for 18 mos and came back talking like Crocodile Dundee. He was brutally roasted for it, including have a character in our class play wander onto the stage every now and then and exclaim, "Good on ya!", and "Crikey!". He was unamused. I found it amusing. :)[/quote]

This is not unusual.  It's called linguistic convergence.

"A new study in the March 2022 issue of the journal Language, authored by Lacey Wade (University of Pennsylvania) shows that even our expectations about how other people might speak (rather than the speech itself) is enough to shape our own speech patterns."[/quote]

...findings show that there are even more pressures shaping how we speak at any given time than we may have thought. Nobody has a single, static way of speaking -- we do not speak precisely the same way when giving a presentation to our colleagues as we do when we are chatting on the phone with a childhood friend -- and this new study suggests that yet another pressure may be at play: our expectations about others' speech. Not only do we imitate what we observe from others, but we also actively predict what others will do and shift our own speech to match. This means that our expectations about others, even those that reflect stereotyped associations between accent features and the people who use them, influence not just the way we listen, but also the way we talk.[/quote]

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