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I've noticed that when I'm exposed to a certain type of speech or language for a while, whether it's because of a RL person or fiction, I start to pick it up. For example, when I was in school, if I started hanging around with a certain kid I'd eventually catch myself using phrases that that kid used, or saying things with the same sort of intonation.

I've also noticed myself doing it after reading books. Like, I'll accidentally use some kind of slang from a book (not great if it's made-up slang for some futuristic setting) or thinking about things using the same kind of language the book uses.

Anyone else do this?

Between Doctor Who and Harry Potter, I've picked up some British words and phrases. Also, thanks to Star Wars, I find myself using blast as a swear word.

Edited 2016-01-05 00:34 (UTC)

All kinds, but I try not to do it in a stupid way anymore

Yes. I do it with everything. I have a stupidly comedian accent/speech pattern. If I listen to a certain narrator or comedian too much, I start talking like them. If I visit my family up North, I slowly start assimilating.

I think it is because I grew up in the South but with Northern parents so my accent is just some weird amalgam.

Well, yes, in the sense that when talking about fandom I often switch to English, even with people who are not native speakers.

American here. I used to be super into Canadian TV and movies, years back, and picked up a faint accent which never really went away.

Also my vocabulary is littered with phrases from Supernatural now, which I also haven't watched in a while.

For me it's not slang, but accents. If I'm marathoning Doctor Who with my mom and turn to ask her a question, suddenly I have the world's worst British accent. I actually used to be friends with a girl who had a thick southern accent and I was constantly terrified she'd think I was making fun of her because I subconsciously mimicked her accent, and I was NOT good at it.

Yeah, it's not good. Recently I've been using 'super' a lot as an adjective(?), which I never used to do. Although that could be just an American thing filtering down, rather than a fandom thing.

Fully 50% of my weird speech patterns come from Homestar Runner.

When I entered fandom as a 13 year old my English was garbage and very formal; nowadays it's so slangy and informal all my siblings wonder why I learned so differently than them.

Also, I thought "squick" was a much more widely used word than it is.

I do it mostly with people I know, with comedy (stand-up or sketch), and with books. But it's not so much words - it's usually more like tones and sounds and ways of organizing your thoughts and expressions. You know?

Oh this has been happening over the course of my life, 'dude' was absorbed into my vernacular due to 90's US TV shows usually having at least one character that abused the shit out of the word. And 'bro' and 'bruh' are the most recent slang words to invade my speech as I started saying them as a joke and now they've stuck. :|

OH yeah, I've done it since I was a kid - my parents even made note of it!

idk if it helps, but I realized the reason for mine was bc it's part of being autistic, so it could be a possibility to look into. /o/

I had really formal speech as a kid because of the type of books I read. That changed around eighth grade when I made friends and started picking up slang. My teachers were disappointed to hear me use words like "ain't", "shiz", and "the bomb".

I don't usually swear much, but after watching or reading something that has a lot of curse words, I find myself using them more for a while. And my sense of humor is usually mildly sarcastic, but sometimes after watching something where the sarcasm flies thick and fast, it ramps up for me.

Bonus: If I drive somewhere immediately after watching something with car chases or racing, I find myself driving faster than I usually would.

Yup. I'm from the northeast of the US. Depeneding on the media I've consumed, I tend to pick up the accent.

So...I find myself using a southern (eastern) drawl. Or using words like "innit" or ending quite a few sentences with a quick "yuh/yeah". Country or region, I will be effected.

I stopped saying "retarded" not because of any PC-ness but because one of my favorite characters in a TV show I love is developmentally disabled.

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Does your manner of speech ever change because of fandom?

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Yep.

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