Accents

Our first week in the UK, several people continuously commented that hearing British accents everywhere really threw them for a loop. The other student interning with me at Footprint Publishing still has a little difficulty understanding our supervisor's Scottish accent. I, on the other hand, barely even noticed.

Either I'm very adaptable or I watch entirely too much Doctor Who.

Or maybe the mid-Atlantic accent I'm used to isn't as noticeably different from British as other American dialects. Over the weekends, I've had multiple people, both British and other Europeans, tell me that I don't sound that different. (I suspect, however, that such comments are fueled by high noise level and...other environmental factors.)

But lo and behold! There is an honest soul out there:

Stranger: "All Americans sound the same to me."

Me: "What? Loud and brash?"

Stranger: "Yeah, pretty much."

Me: "...Yeah, that's actually about right."

I have never felt so noisy in my entire life.