jeff elrod on Mythryl: “when i went off to college in georgia, i vowed to resist acquiring…”

i grew up in kansas, with a formative three-year stint in north carolina in the middle. when we moved back to kansas, i was excited for my friends to know, so i insisted on recording our answering machine message. i heard it six months later and was embarrassed to discover i sounded like paula deen.

Kat Tenbarge@kattenbarge.bsky.social

People are making fun of AOC for having a slight southern accent while speaking in Memphis but they clearly don’t know the pain of habitually and unconsciously imitating the speaking style of the people around you

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