Stranger in Reading
Oct 08 2008
IT support: hello, this is [name] in Salt Lake city (US Accent)
Wendy: Oh! I hope its sunny in Salt Lake city
IT Support: it’s 4am in the morning
Wendy: Ah, gosh, well, not sunny then, I’ve got this problem…
[problem fixing conversation and Wendy starts falling asleep then wakes up when]
IT Support: Wonkey, I’m even talking British now, wonkey
4 of your thoughts on wonkey sounds like wrong key
Dec 15 2007
During a rather unrare planningy moment:
Spanish person: you’ll need your passport number to complete this form
Wendy: will an out of date passport number work?
Spanish person: I don’t know. They accept other documents
Wendy: My Birth certificate?
Spanish person: No, it has to be a UK Birth Certificate
Wendy: It is, I’m born and bred in England!
Over a lunch of chicken and chips with lashings of vinegar:
Someone from the Colonies (don’t know which): Are you Australian? I can hear an accent
Wendy: I’m English
SFTC(DKW): but you’ve lived abroad for sometime?
Wendy: Yes, 8 years in the US, but its probably my regional English accent that you’re hearing
Over a disturbingly small cup of tea:
New Zealander: I can hear your American intonation
Wendy: that’s actually my English regional accent intonation
New Zealander: (immitates raising voice-pitch towards end of sentence)
Wendy: That’s right, Bristolians raise their voice towards the end of a sentence, well spotted! (I squeaked the last bit in a higher pitch)
I don’t think I convinced anyone. Maybe I’ve been colonyised?
write the first thought on colonyised
Feb 11 2006
On Wendy’s first day in Washington State:
Wendy: Is your accent the regional accent for the Seattle area?
Hairdresser: I don’t have an accent
Wendy: oh, sorry, I must have soap in my ears, have you lived in the Seattle area all of your life?
Hairdresser: yes
Wendy: Are your parents orginially from round here?
Hairdresser: yes
Today:
Waitress: Waller?
Wendy: On the rocks
Wendy learning-to-talk-to-the-natives
write the first thought on NW US Regional Accent
Nov 17 2005
I typed
Mail instead of Main
within an email
to a male
I chuckled to myself. This possibly isn’t amusing for you unless you are actually on Planet-Wendy* with me. No map available to Planet-Wendy.
”cars ‘eee ain’ begit’n maw carn-tex’
Regional accent outbreak. It means ‘context UNPUBLISHABLE’.
*photograph of Planet-Wendy painting** attached.
** the painting*** actually IS hung on the wall in my garage.
***I’m open to painting purchase offers, make me a bid… ….I promise not to cry…
Wendy still-nesting-footnotes
write the first thought on Phonological similarity meets typed Malaproprism
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