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[doyle]

Psst - flist lot, any of you doing that anonymous love Secret Santa meme-y thing? I've been scrolling through but see very few names I know, which makes me sad. Naturally, I'm there, because I'm an insecure whore and seek validation - note that I ran screaming from the brutal honesty meme - but that's neither here nor there.

LJ is still being an arsebiscuit about comment notifications. And I am woefully late with femslash_minis and can't read my own fic till I've done it (it's a thing), so will go and do that. After watching the Christmas Invasion trailer another few times.

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[fallingfortruth.livejournal.com]

*giggle* I think I've a bit of an advantage over the average Yank, because the hick accent here in the Ozarks has a lot in common with the North Irish/Scottish one, because that's where most of their ancestors came from. I'm not an O'Neal for nothing.

I hope you feel better, though! Head colds are rubbish and awful.

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

*g* My accent is a hick North Irish accent, to make matters worse (or at least was, before 4 years at uni in Belfast made me a bit more understandable.) My first few days at college, people from my own country assumed I was a foreigner.

[fallingfortruth.livejournal.com]

*giggle* Whereas I can apparently pass for a Canadian to Canadians without much trouble. The only sound of mine that's distinctly American is the 'ou' in 'out' and 'about'. Hoorah for being an army brat, I guess.

[janeway216.livejournal.com]

My first year of high school, my English teacher was from the sticks of Northern Ireland. None of us knew this beforehand, however, so as she started to talk to us for the first time, everyone slowly got this look on their face like she was speaking a foreign language.

Eventually of course we all picked it up, but there were still some things she had trouble with. One of the girls was named "Jamie" and my teacher never could get it right -- it kept coming out "Jimmy". After a couple times of staring around looking for the "Jimmy" in the class we eventually figured it out.

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

*g* When talking to people with English accents who I don't know are English beforehand, I occasionally take a minute to register what language they're speaking - despite constant exposure to English and American accents on TV it takes a second to switch gears in my head.