Things about work:

[azurelunatic]

--six interviews on the recruitment for the panel (!!!) (typical is 0-3 interviews)
--a break card IOU from the Quiet Geek Super (see above outstanding performance)
--singing TMBG in the break room
--talking with an 81-year-old man whose life philosophy was that it's all one big joke (just the person I needed to talk to today)

Evidently my "I am professional and enunciating very clearly" voice comes across as some variety of English accent. I demonstrated for marxdarx at home, and (much to my amazement) realized that yes, I had indeed heard that same enunciation as an accent before -- the very precise and lovely speech of Mrs. W (I think they're divorced or separated now, sadly) from the Friends community back home. An authentic speaker would probably be able to tell my precision from an actual English accent, but it's definitely nice to be able to place the precise reason why some people on the phones tell me that I sound like I'm European.

Comments

Education is Key.

[hasfartogo.livejournal.com]

Many Canadians with University educations sound British to some Americans.

My French sounds Metropolitan to the Quebecers but Quebecois to the Metropolitan speakers. As long as I can order my coffee and sweet, I don't care.

Re: Education is Key.

[azurelunatic]

Education, yes. I know how to say all these words! Hee!

[amberfox.livejournal.com]

I've had people insist that I'm lying when I tell them I'm a native Texan. Apparently the Plano accent is fairly Midwestern. *shrug*

[azurelunatic]

Ahhh, geographic stereotyping. About as obnoxious as racial stereotyping.