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Dave Smith[_1_]

On 2020-01-16 2:46 p.m., wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Jan 2020 19:17:17 -0700, U.S. Janet B. >
> wrote:

>> you really think that all members of a family speak alike?
>
> When people are raised together from birth they all use the same
> intonation, speech pattern, vocabulary, and accent... unless one has a
> speech impediment or underwent speech therapy as many showbiz people
> do. You likely don't travel much nor very far from where you were
> raised since infancy. Most people of the same ethnicity (even race)
> speak very much alike. Most people who grew up in the Southern US
> speak very much alike, same as most who were raised in Brooklyn sound
> very similar, especially on the phone. My mother had four sisters,
> whenever they phoned it took a while for me to know which one, often I
> had to ask. I happen to have a very distinct speaking voice, once
> people have spoken to me on the phone they know immediately that it's
> me... my speaking voice is as identifiable as my posts here. If my
> brother phoned you you'd swear it was me.
>
>

A good friend of mine was a doctor who left Ontario back in the late
1970s and started a practice in Texas. His wife and kids developed
Texas accents quite quickly, though son lost his when he moved to
another state. My friend had bad hearing and he never acquired the accent.