WTF, Y'all?
I was driving home tonight, and I noticed that I was singing along with Weezer with a slight Kentuckian accent. I don't know what fucking brain disease I am developing, but just lately...I've noticed that my accent is coming back. I don't know if I like that, very much.
It was pretty persistent when I was delivering training to the Cardinals staff. It has always crept back in when I'm very tired, or when I've been speaking for a long period of time. Or, when I've had a little too much to drink. I sort of relax back into "mah" and "ah" instead of "my" and "I".
But this is different. I am not all that tahred...or tired. I have a theory on this.
First of all, I'm not watching Blue Collar Comedy crap any more. Nothing brings back an accent like exposure to a similar accent. I'm going to have cut that shit out.
Second, well...here's a problem. I work with this real nice guy named Ricky. Ricky is from the hill end of Kentucky: lived there his whole life. He talks like Andy Griffith on 'ludes. He sounds a lot like my Uncle Billy Bob. Yes, that is his real fucking name: Billy Bob. Anyway, Ricky sports what would have to be the closest thing to my native way of speaking that I've heard for years. Ricky and I have been working together on the Cardinals thing, and I am going to go ahead and blame that on my twisted tongue.
For those who don't know, there's nothing "Southern Belle"-ish about my accent. Kentucky is so far north, that the drawl is clipped. I was on the Illinois/Missouri/Kentucky border, growing up. My speech pattern was still pretty intelligible. I wasn't so much the "I do declayuh!" sort of girl as I was the "Well, Ah'll be dayumed!" sort. It's not sexy. It sounds like me, if I hosted a fishing show. It sounds like me with a minor head injury. It sounds like me with some extra vowels in some places and some missing vowels in others. (Any linguist will tell you that human mouth is only capable of so many consonant sounds, so the variation in all spoken languages is the use of vowels.)
Anyway, I'm considering just letting it come back to a certain degree. I can't fight it, all the time. Guh...I don't know.
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