{"id":1470,"date":"2006-01-10T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-10T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/10\/accents\/"},"modified":"2006-01-10T10:20:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-10T17:20:00","slug":"accents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/accents\/","title":{"rendered":"Accents&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was born in America, but my first language was Spanish (my mother is Dominican).  When I was three, we moved to the Dominican Republic, but I eventually moved back to the States around my 6th birthday.  I remember learning English and the extra thick accent I used to have.  I&#8217;ve lost that accent entirely now, but I can dredge it up from the depths of my soul whenever I want to make a point.  I also have a small knack for other accents.  I guess something about learning to twist my tongue around the American accent made it pliable enough that I could twist it into others.<\/p>\n<p><lj user=Sameen> found a very cool site today.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/accent.gmu.edu\/index.php<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s basically an archive of people with various accents saying the same phrase.  It helps you get a feel for how a Greek person would say something vs. a Jamaican vs. a Russian.  Very cool if you&#8217;re an accentophile like me.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;sam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was born in America, but my first language was Spanish (my mother is Dominican). When I was three, we moved to the Dominican Republic, but I eventually moved back to the States around my 6th birthday. I remember learning English and the extra thick accent I used to have. I&#8217;ve lost that accent entirely&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-1470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-accents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}