no, seriously, I'm irish

[waider]

forgot about this, and remembered it walking to work this morning: while in the pub on Saturday evening, a scotsman named Robbie insisted that I sounded "Canadian or some sort of North American" despite my equally insistent, er, insistence that I'm Irish. How peculiar.

Comments

[zadcat.livejournal.com]

Fugeddaboutit.

[dr-strych9.livejournal.com]

Funny. I can't hear any accent at all when you post to LJ.

[waider.livejournal.com]

You're using the wrong font, then.

[eejitalmuppet.livejournal.com]

Obvious answer: Eh?

I've had very occasional accusations of being Australian or Canadian. I suspect that spending a lot of time online, especially in the earlier days of this funny IntarWeb thang (maybe not the late Cretacious, like kludge, but early enough to remember the arrival of the world-wide web), leads to a lot of exposure to American figures of speech and phrasing. The voice might not change as a result of being online, but the vocabulary can migrate...

[waidesworld.livejournal.com]

"A scotsman named Robbie," now how English was he!