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out of curiosity, why do you think accents put you off?
by mef 7y ago
out of curiosity, why do you think accents put you off?
- rendall 7y agoI don't have a problem with accents at all. I think, at first, I thought he was faking or exaggerating his accent for effect. Then I realized I wasn't familiar with the Chicago accent enough to know what was real or exaggerated. Then I decided to just listen to the guy and forget about the accent. All this happened within about 10-15 seconds. In retrospect, I am super familiar with and rather fond of the Bronx, Brooklyn and Boston accents; maybe for me the Chicago accent falls into a kind of uncanny valley where it's close to those other accents to sound almost the same, but different enough to sound "weird" and "fake". But, the more I watch these videos, the more his accent will be familiar to me.