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Originally Posted by Botnst
Mrs B and I are both military brats. She absorbs accents (not mimic). It takes her a couple of weeks or a few months and she sounds like a local. I don't mimic and I don't absorb accents. But I used to be damned good at detecting regional and often local accents. I suspect that the reasons I'm not as good at it as I once was is that people move so much, TV & radio normalize pronunciation, and my hearing is naturally aging where one loses high pitch. I hear lower frequencies just fine. But little girls are beginning to be hard to understand.
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But you could understand them at one point? I can't understand them now!
My late uncle, who was a Navy pilot, never did pick up any local accents with all of his moves. He was very proud of the fact that he was able to maintain his central CT accent/lack of one despite living in Maine for 35+ years.