By Anonymous - 25/05/2012 01:37 - United States - Lawrence

Today, my teenage daughter asked me if accents are hereditary. FML
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You deserved it 4 237

Same thing different taste

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Dumb girl, they're sexually transmitted

I hope stupidity isn't. Or your unborn grand-babies are screwed.

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kissmyace25 6

one day she will love a kansas accent if its kansas... i love my hick accent lol

I guess the definition of hereditary in some cases needs clarification. I was born in the west midlands , UK and therefore spoke with a "brummie" accent. However I was adopted and moved to west Yorkshire when I was 6 and my accent soon changed. My children were born in Yorkshire they naturally spoke with a Yorkshire accent. But now we live in Australia and they (my kids) sound like Australians. So it's not necessarily inherited from family but from your surroundings and your peers.

you should have said, neither is intelligence

ChickInGreenVans 12

Try saying.. Eye Mite.. Without sounding Australian!! And No I'm not Australian Im South African..

KelBelAndNats 7

It's quite clear you're not Australian, you didn't need to clarify that. If you were Australian, you would be well aware we can easily say 'might' without it sounding like 'mate'.

That isn't even a dumb question. A lot of people think they are hereditary.

maxmex13 7

14 - Say this without an Australian accent: "That's no knife, here's a knife!" Yep, Crocodile Dundee Reference

smydiwannafthata 5

That actually a pretty smart question. As a practical definition, it could apply. Since most people's accents are derived from their surroundings and the people they communicate with or the accent they were commonly exposed to during childhood.