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Originally Posted by Rmbxr9
So current champ was born in NY, lives in Portland… went to college in the UK and has a FULL BLOWN English accent?
I mean
Even if you went there at 18, lived there for 20 years I’m not sure you’d develop this strong of an English accent. Seems a bit pretentious now that I know this
hearing a local accent can get pretty infectious though
i once spent 2 weeks in east texas and started talking like the locals do for fun and before i knew it i was just always talking that way - must have been insufferable for people to hear that put-on accent
it wasn't until i caught myself still doing it after flying into nyc did i realize what i'd been doing
likewise, i've had english roomates and at times use their type of lingo just because it fits a situation better imo and that always sounds super weird to other americans like they think i'm just doing it to seek attention whereas when conversing with a room of englishmen it's totally natural and nobody thinks anything of it
so i could totally see how it could come about and how that's now just his default setting