What is this about?
I needed a way to satisfy the following issues:
1- I live very far away from everyone and everything I know, and needed some way of communicating to them my day-to-day business and to also prove that I still fuck up every day like I did back home.
2- I needed some form of creative outlet to ensure that working full time in a shop and not reading enough do not succeed in turning me into a glorified mashed potato.
3- My interest in language got me to thinking- i’d like some kind of written record of my changing dialect to perhaps study in the later years.
Don’t get me wrong, I never chose to change the way I speak. In actual fact I came to Canada with that old British notion of every one else sounding like idiots, and so i’ve always been proud of my fair London accent, however it was around a month in, and i’d been forced to repeat myself to every person I spoke to, I started to realise that I was changing what I was saying, how I was saying it and the speed of which I said things, in order to have a single soul understand me.
It gets to the point where you simply have no choice. Either change to some degree, or accept you’ll be known as Austin Powers for the rest of eternity, be succumbed to re-iterating various stories of your past in British English to a cast of excited of Canadians who are convinced you’re somehow related to the Queen herself, and even though she sounds great, I have no idea what she’s talking about.
This is my blog, i’ll update it when I feel like it.
josecesarperales said,
October 9, 2008 @ 5:42 pm
Sensible reasons to keep a blog, indeed. But don’t worry about your accent… your sense of humour is still soooo English.
BTW, I lived in London for two years, and in the “New Word” (LA, to be precise) for some months, but instead of getting the feeling that things work there, somehow I got the feeling it’s difficult to find something in London that does work (trains included).
Things don’t work in Spain either, but we don’t care anyway, and, besides, it’s sunny
All the best luck for you, your blog, and your little american adventure.
Jose, Granada, Spain