I think it's a lot more cultural acclimatization than language, although the language you're using at the time may "force" a cultural context. I've certainly be

I think it's a lot more cultural acclimatization than language, although the language you're using at the time may "force" a cultural context. I've certainly been different people when living in different places: the back-woods bilingual (English and "sawmill French") Stan of Northern Ontario had a lot in common with the distictly Maritime-accented Stan who lived in Halifax, Summerside and St. John's, but is almost no relation to the Stan who lived in Montreal or the current Torontonian version -- unless you can drag a bit of Newfanese or joual d'scierie out of me in a conversation. When that happens, the "my time is precious", stacatto-speaking urban a-hole melts away and a mellower (yet, oddly, harder-working) kind of fellow takes over. Granted, that's "anecdote", not "datum", but it frames an alternate way of studying the phenomenon.