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Very calm...very very quiet...deadly

abecedarian said:
Oh yeah..toss in a teacher with a different accent..say a Southern one..dont' get me wrong ya'll- I LOVE Southern accents! But, ya'll slant your vowels and pronounce some things a little differently than we refugees from the Great American Outback...Really, other accents do stuff like that too.. it's when you have a transplanted teacher trying to help kids spell or read, it can get confusing.

For the record, my mom was from Georgia, so I shoulda been better prepared:lol:
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:lol:

Southern accents don't seem any more difficult then most others. Of course there are those few whose words leave me clueless. I can remember getting on an elevator with a young black fellow and he said something I didn't understand. I asked what language he was speaking and he said english. The elevator arrived at my floor and opened about that time and I just said "oh? and walked off the elevator.

I think the worse is trying to keep up with a conversation in a noisy room.
 
abecedarian said:
Most definately. When there's lots of people talking AND loud background noise like music or tv..forget it. I zone out.
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That's the way of it, I guess. It's funny that in a quiet room, I can hear and therefore interact well enough that people forget that I even have a hearing problem.
 
Robert said:
That's the way of it, I guess. It's funny that in a quiet room, I can hear and therefore interact well enough that people forget that I even have a hearing problem.
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Yup, if we look 'normal' and act mostly 'normal', people forget. They can't look at us and tell we don't hear so hot.
 
Well..I have it from a reliable source that Stewart had plans to go to the Dark Place today. :whistling:
 
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