I’ve heard Gypsy Blood a thousand times. Never even noticed that or thought about it. I’m not suggesting your obsessed or anything though. ![]()
Hehehe, nah. If you find it irritating, it is. The worst part is: I know better. I had one parent that spoke with a Texas accent, and another that absolutely did not. Granted, most people around me spoke with a Texas accent, but I did know better. I actually spent several years trying to enunciate the “g” hoping that I wouldn’t be perceived as having an accent. At one point I realized that as soon as I wasn’t thinking about it (or was singing), my accent came out in spades, and I stopped trying to suppress it.
The screwy thing about my accent is that in my current role of upper-tier tech support for an expensive product, it seems to work in my advantage. There are several times where I tell the lower level tech who has a customer who wants to be escalated “to the next level” and have a phone call that I’m going to tell them the same thing the lower level tech just told them. They agree, but the customer wants to speak to someone else. Either it’s because they can’t understand me, or I sound like Mission Control from Houston, the customer rarely argues with me. When they do argue with me, they’re from the US.
Nonetheless, I do try to avoid “y’all” in tech support calls now. I made that mistake on a call with customers from California decades ago. I lost control of that call until I pulled the “You idiots called me for help. If you don’t want my advice because of my accent or speech habits, I don’t know what I can do for you” card.
But, I’ll warn ya in a PM if I ever get a job narratin’ books on tape. ![]()
Heh, and I just re-listened to the last 13 minutes of the Apollo 11 landing. They use “looking” and “landing” in that recording. Gene Kranz switches back and forth between looking and lookin’, even though he was originally from Ohio, where I think the hard g is more common (he’d originally entered Texas more than a decade before, so he may have picked it up). And even though Charlie Duke (from New Braunfels) consistently says lookin’, and has an obvious drawl, he says “landing” with a hard g. I’d probably switch back and forth on the last one, depending on who I was talking to and about.
Ooops, missed the edit, but Charlie Duke is really from Charlotte, NC. I personally think that makes his pronouncing landing with a hard g more explainable, but I’ve been drinking.
Yes, it looks like I have a case of self-induced confirmation bias.![]()