Accents - Moscow

[Skimmel_98]

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From: Skimmel_98
Subject: Accents  - Moscow
Date: 7/31/00 5:05 am  (ET)

I know we've beaten the accent issue to death but I just had an experience
here in Russia that may amuse and / or put a perspective on the question.

A friend of mine, also from Texas, and I were chatting while waiting for
the subway at Prospekt Mira station in Moscow. A black lady comes up to
us and asks if we are British. No one has ever accused me of having a
British accent so I had to ask why she had asked. She was from Cameroon
and her contact with American and British accents were from BBC and
CNN. We were talking faster than they do on CNN so we must be British.

The day folks starting mistaking my accent for a British accent... any
British accent... is the day I stop worrying about whether they will
get the accent right in the Harry Potter movie.