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Originally Posted by Texlexic
I grew up in Big D and never thought I had an accent until I went to boot camp. Everyone from my DI down gave me so much crap I learned to hide it.
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I was in boot camp for 6 weeks with guys from the South - TN, Texas, Alabama, etc.
Afterwords, when I was assigned to my permanent party base in CA (San Joaquin Valley), they all thought I was from the South.
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Met an American woman years ago who spent several years overseas (don't remember the country), and she was then enrolled in the Berlitz School of Language to re-learn English. She said that after being out of the US for that amount of years, she began to think in the foreign language.
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The mind is a terrible thing.