Because of my background in languages, I've had dreams in weird languages. Once I had a dream in German, Finnish, and English. Everything was subtitled, but I couldn't read the subtitles (oddly enough).
In another, I saw ladybugs spelling out words in German on a paisley background. Very sixties.
In yet another, I was in the US, but everything looked like Finland, and everyone was Japanese.
In another dream, I was German Chancellor Helmut Kohl (my fourth favorite chancellor) and was meeting officials in German. Even my dreams are boring.
But not this one I had the other day.
It was scary. Scarier and worse than the dreams above.
I was speaking with a Southern accent.
I had to force myself to speak that way, and it wasn't my real accent, but I was talking with a drawl nonetheless.
I don't know why I so fear gaining a Southern accent. Maybe it's because I want to retain my 85% Californianess. Maybe it's out of sheer west-coast snobbery. But I was very scared that I will stop speaking like my Golden State compatriots.
On a lighter note, the following link (hopefully) will link you to a very funny but scary video that potentially could help my Finnish.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCgrG35-3js
Thanks Brad for the link.
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i completely understand.
but if you stay here very long, you'll end up like me--the English PhD candidate whose favorite phrase is "might could."
i know. i KNOW.
embrace it. love it. it too will get you.
just be glad you didn't go to tallahassee to that school-that-we-shall-not-name. those kids are HICKS! :)
i've had dreams where i was translating latin...and either i could read it perfectly...or nothing made sense.
not as exciting, but it's all i have.
OKAY NOT EVERYONE IN TALLAHASSEE IS A HICK CARRIE.
also, seriously, a southern accent is awesome. there is nothing to be ashamed of. Y'all is so much easier to say than "all of you" or "you guys" or "you (plural)" if you're conjugating latin verbs. it's all just so much more natural if you really think about it.
I do appreciate the convenience of saying y'all. I suppose it's really nothing against the South so much as against not being Californian.
Your 4th favorite Chancellor? Who could possibly be cooler than Helmut Kohl?
Merkel, Brandt, and Adenauer
Once I had a dream that Jessica actually helped me on my GIS project. Also she kept IMing me til all hours of the night.
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