Where are you from? New York?""Weird you picked up on that, " she said, "I've been gone from there for so long." Like a couple of decades could dilute that accent.

Cathie Beck
Where are you from? New York?
Where are you from? New York?
Where are you from? New York?
Where are you from? New York?
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When people ask where you are from, they don't really want to know where you are from. They want to know what your accent sounds like. It's your native accent, your "real voice." And it's different than the accent of the people you spent years living with. For many Americans, the accent they hear in their heads is not their own. It sounds like their family or friends or neighbors.

Source: Cheap Cabernet: A Friendship

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