// Accents.//

OK, so I´m English but since I´ve been living abroad for 12 years, my accent isn´t entirely english yet it´s not american, although most people think I´m american until I tell them I´m not.
Funny thing, is that once I mention where I´ve been living for the past 12 years, I all of a sudden happen to have that accent. Not an american accent, not an english accent.
And even though I acknowledge and understand I don´t have an (entirely) english accent, I certainly do not have an accent from where I´ve been living the past 12 years of my life.

So I did some research, and found out that the accent I have is a transatlantic one.

Wouldn’t it be nice to speak English in a manner that was legible, pleasant, and did not peg you as a resident of …anywhere in particular? That is called the Transatlantic accent, which sounds halfway between British and American English.

It makes you sound like you have a good education but no one can tell quite where you are from. You hear it in old Hollywood films from the 1930s and 1940s. It is the accent of Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn, William F Buckley and (at least in some films) God.

There is no town in the world where people grow up speaking English that way. Instead you get the accent in one of three ways:

1. Learn the accent on purpose (actors used to do that).
2. Grow up or live on both sides of the Atlantic (but that can lead to even stranger accents, like those of Loyd Grossman and Madonna).
3. Pick it up at a top boarding school in America before the 1960s

http://www.neatorama.com/2010/01/05/the-transatlantic-accent/ 
Take that bitcheeeeez!!!!!!
 LOL 

Although people from where I´ve been living abroad would wish to speak with my accent, believe me, I sound nothing like some spick trying to pull off an english accent!
NOTE: It´s not that I have anything against them, it´s just that living there wasn´t the best experience I´ve had plus I really don´t have the accent my mates say I have…

END OF RANT =)