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Nov. 4th, 2006 04:58 pmI'm always amazed that anyone can tell that I'm from the Deleware Valley, because I spent my entire childhood trying to sound unlike the people I grew up with. Also, I haven't lived there in over twenty years!
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Date: 2006-11-07 01:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-09 08:45 am (UTC)television new jersey - yeah - like alice, or ralph macchio in the karate kid.
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Date: 2006-11-09 10:38 pm (UTC)Alice & Ralph were ... definitely not what I was trying to sound like, ever. If anything, I was going for that Network News Anchor accent: y'know, Peter fuckin' Jennings.
No disrepsect intended to the late Canadian expatriate newsman, of course. I just thought he tauked smooth ...