Wherever I travel, when I open my mouth everybody knows I'm American.
But in Germany they assumed that "my ancestors were German" and in Ireland I was assumed to be an O'Day... English assumed my ancestors were English, which was partly right. All those assumptions had some bit of validity...
Funny thing about my accent, many people canтАЩt figure it out. Since I speak a few languages pretty well and rather regularly, my accent (s) got influenced by other languagesтАж For example, I speak Spanish with the lisp. This means I learned Spanish in Spain. But because I use my Spanish in other Spanish speaking countries most of my life other than Spain, people in Spain get confused when I speak it, especially in the IslandsтАж
Few years back when I was visiting Spain, several Brits were following us around trying to figure out where my English accent was from. They were surprised that we came from Canada because apparently not many Canadians visit that regionтАж
No matter what one believes, evolution or creation, we all come from the same ancestorтАж Some call the ancestor тАЬThe Mitochondrial EveтАЭ, but others just Eve :-)
The monied interests moved a lot of Eastern Europeans to the Levant with a separatist and supremacist ideology. Problematic...
Where did you grow up, Thomas? Your last name is typically English, rarely Estonian, I read.
Hull (Hulle) last name also has German origins..
A variation on "hill" in that context, from Dutch origin
A lot of Germans ask me if IтАЩm GermanтАж.
Wherever I travel, when I open my mouth everybody knows I'm American.
But in Germany they assumed that "my ancestors were German" and in Ireland I was assumed to be an O'Day... English assumed my ancestors were English, which was partly right. All those assumptions had some bit of validity...
Funny thing about my accent, many people canтАЩt figure it out. Since I speak a few languages pretty well and rather regularly, my accent (s) got influenced by other languagesтАж For example, I speak Spanish with the lisp. This means I learned Spanish in Spain. But because I use my Spanish in other Spanish speaking countries most of my life other than Spain, people in Spain get confused when I speak it, especially in the IslandsтАж
Few years back when I was visiting Spain, several Brits were following us around trying to figure out where my English accent was from. They were surprised that we came from Canada because apparently not many Canadians visit that regionтАж
A mongrel-new-world-polyglot!
;-D
This is what immigration forces one to do: learn the local language to surviveтАж or notтАж lol
I grew up on military bases during Vietnam and went to high school in rural Texas and Yokohama, Japan.
;-)
My accent is clearly "American", but can't be placed any more specifically than that.
No matter what one believes, evolution or creation, we all come from the same ancestorтАж Some call the ancestor тАЬThe Mitochondrial EveтАЭ, but others just Eve :-)