Quote Originally Posted by Peter C. View Post
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I was surprised to hear that P1M is American. I quite enjoy his posts, even now that I know he is puting on that accent.

Peter
I'm not so sure he's putting on the accent. Well, obviously, he's typing it! But I've noticed that I assimilate to the accent of the place I'm in. When I was back in deep East Texas, my Texas accent got more noticeable, when I was studying Russian, I had some bastardized hybrid Texican-St. Petersburg accent, because my teachers were mostly from St. Petersburg/Leningrad/Petrograd. Then my Russian tongue got twisted more when I lived in Central Asia.

(And yes, you really DO use different muscles in your mouth when you speak Russian---when I was getting used to it, my mouth would go to bed tired!)