#standard dialect

[immersionfrancaise]

The standard is always accented, it is perhaps even the most salient accent available, indexical of middle-class, national, middle-age identities as well as of a certain level of educational background, ethnicity, geographical or even racial identity.

Blommaert et al. (2006) “On Being Declared Illiterate”

[rebelvampire]

Secretly

I would love to learn to fake accents.  But I hate the sound of my voice in the first place.  Not to mention the fact I feel that'd just be too weird for people to hear me doing at 3 in the morning.  Practicing accents.