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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]

Actual linguist here- they don’t actually change their whole accent in 18 months, especially if they’re an adult, unless they are consciously doing so because they value that accent more.

Additionally, the article you quoted implies that they would change back once they returned to the US and switch back to US English to be more similar to their interlocutors.

Short answer- no, this doesn’t happen and is cringeworthy [/quote]

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