Originally Posted by shiseido_red

Pretty much your accent is determined by the earlier years of your life when you're brain is still developing. So if you're, say, 21 years old and move to Ireland I doubt you'd take on an Irish accent.

Originally Posted by Janszoon

It probably depends a bit on how old you are when you move there too. It seems like the younger a person is the more fully they pick up an accent of a place they move to.

Originally Posted by xxawwxsugarxx

I'm pretty sure it's subconscious, though.

I don't think you can go somewhere and simply get the accent.

It's more that one spends so much time around people with a certain accent, that they speak like them because it's easier to converse.

Just like when a friend or someone you know well says something all of the time and you just adopt it because you spend so much time around them.

Like, everyone at my school says, "That's legit," when something makes sense.

Although I SAID IT BEFORE ANYONE AT MY SCHOOL and they all stole it.

Rawr.

But yeah.

>.>

Originally Posted by xxawwxsugarxx

No I'm pretty sure it's possible.

I think my dad was older than twenty-one when he went to North Carolina.