From accent envy to accent remorse

[Bones4]

I recently heard a friend of mine doing a perfect Scottish accent. I was jealous. Two days ago, I looked at a few Youtube videos explaining the accentuations and vowels...  basic stuff. I ended up practicing for a cumulative total of about four hours that day (I drive a lot). When it came time to drop the accent, I couldn't. It took a good twenty minutes of talking to fully drop it. Now I still find myself letting it back out without realizing it...  especially when I'm tired. Sometimes I can't even find the original pronunciation of a word without breaking it down into its basic parts and thinking hard about it.

I've screwed myself up. People are starting to notice and think I'm doing it to be "cute." This is the first time I've practiced an accent and I honestly didn't know something like this would happen.

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[|Shadow]

Why would you get jealous over someone doing a perfect Scottish accent?
Also, I can kinda do a Scottish accent. :D

[Radial543]

This is very odd indeed. I have a problem like this when I talk to people with southern drawls; I begin to develop one myself...

[Visage]

When I worked 6 days a week as a busser at a fancy restaurant all the other bussers were Mexicans, the first like 2 months I would speak half English and half Spanish all the time because I had trouble keeping them separate, after I while I learned to keep them seperate though. I would even sometimes speak English with a Spanish accent.

[Bones4]

I'm glad it's not just me.

[MegaScientifical]

Dude, you're Bones4. You're awesome enough how you are. :(

[Tom Gunn]

I can do a Aussie accent a Asian accent and a British accent.

I love the Brits <3

[Parallel]

Don't worry. I've heard of people going to the UK for a few months to a year. They end up picking up the accent. Yes, they bring it home with them, but they loose it after a few months. Just stop intentionally talking that way and the accent will fade off eventually.

But before it goes away, you should totally go up to somebody and yell "That's a contradiction! Starburst is hard like a solid, yet juicy, like a liquid!"

[Tom Gunn]

I recently developed a Polish accent.

I can also easily switch my speech to another quite easily.

Also > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y15GVEnSwTM

[Sarge]

ONE CONTRADICTION EATING ANOTHER!

I can do a German accent, a Hispanic accent (since I hear my mom talk with it all the time), and an Indian accent. Of course one time, I couldn't stop speaking in my Indian accent so I was "mistaken" even more. :/

[Teneksi]

I have an unidentifiable accent out of loving nowhere

[Duckmeister]

I can do a great Scotty (from Star Trek), but I can't do a good Demoman, for whatever reason.  I can nail the "I'm givin' her all she's got, captain, I don't think she can take it any longer!" but I screw up on the "What makes me a good Demoman?".

I usually practice some accents while I'm driving, but I've never actually had a problem where I couldn't go back to a normal accent.

I can't do eastern european accents at all.  For some reason, I just can't get it to sound right no matter what.

My normal accent isn't really tied to any specific place, since I've moved from place to place even when I was a child.  I never really picked up any local accents because my family was never anywhere long enough to do so.  So it's kind of a conglomerate of Western accents.

[Rughugger]

I can mimic accents if I am surrounded by it for a few minutes. It's not that difficult to break as long as someone else is speaking in a "normal" accent around me.

[Conan]

This thread is lol.

[Meekl]

SING IT, MAN
THEY'RE TAKING THE HOBBITS TO ISENGARD
YESSSSSSSSSSSSS