# What causes 'effeminate' speech patterns in gay men?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 13, 2011, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-causes-effeminate-speech-patterns-in-gay-men/581787 "2011-05-13T15:59:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 17, 2011, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-causes-effeminate-speech-patterns-in-gay-men/581787/61 "2011-05-17T15:16:00Z")

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> [@ralph124c](#):
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> Good topic-I am fascinated by accents.  
> If I moved to London, would I start to sound like an englishman?  
> or would I retain my Boston accent?

People are funny about that.

We had neighbours across the street from us who moved to Australia (from Canada.) About a year later we talked to them on the phone. The father sounded every bit as Canadian as the day they’d left; his wife and daughters sounded like they were trying to channel Crocodile Dundee. You would never know they had been born in the same country.

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