Sunday, March 11, 2012
quicko: airport accentendals
This isn't highly scientific, but I have a theory that, at airports, you tend to hear the accents of the city you're in at any one time. Thus, in LA, you'll hear passengers with American accents, and in Sydney you'll hear passengers with Australian accents -- despite the exact same people being on the flight and getting on and off in the same places. No idea how this works, but I'm convinced it does.
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Are we talking while still on the plane or in the airport building itself? If in the airport building, there will be the influence of airport workers, passengers' friends and families all reminding them of where they now are and the returning natives will slip more heavily into their old accents.
My husband's father is from Scotland. My husband says that if ever he talked on the phone to a fellow Scot, his accent became a think Scottish brogue but otherwise he sounds Australian.
Could it have anything to do with all the locals who work at the airport, or who are coming to meet or send off passengers, but who, themselves, live there and are not traveling?
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