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Old 04-21-2009, 05:00 PM   #19
Clodfobble
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Originally Posted by monster
heehee, you would've been right in the UK. it was like standard Uni accent with flat vowels. But now I sound American to most Brits (and still Brit/Aus to most Americans), but it doesn't take me long back in the company of Brits for me to slide back a bit. I guess I mostly have American vocab, cadence and intonation with a Brit accent.
I can confirm that monster and Beest both sound British to my ear, but your kids sound American--except for one moment, when Hebe said "pasta" as if it rhymed with "master" and it caught me totally offguard.
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