Eldan GoldenbergApr 12, 2018
Ah, London: "____ has served strictly Halal food since we opened. However, we are not certified by either of the Halal associations, because we also have a full bar."
Show threadEldan GoldenbergApr 13, 2018
Trip's going well. Generally feeling less rushed, and I have a better sense of where to find quiet green spaces in this city than NYC. Here is a particularly good barge from walking around a canal earlier today:
https://a.weirder.earth/media/rncp4M5CdNHScIHgbnU
Show threadEldan GoldenbergApr 13, 2018
And here's a #poem I enjoyed:
https://a.weirder.earth/media/Q1mgVPdnS1JBirb_xf4
Show threadEldan GoldenbergApr 14, 2018
This being such a famously small town, I just bumped into someone I know on the Tube.
Show threadEldan GoldenbergApr 15, 2018

I've lived in the US for almost 15 years, and kind of left Britain a year earlier than that. I've noticed some shifts in my own perceptions of accents.

Up to about 5 years ago: even though London had stopped feeling like home, the sounds of peoples' voices here still did.

Since then: my own accent sounds sort of odd to me.

Now: just spent an evening in London surrounded by US- & Candians, and their accents are the sound of home to me now.

Show threadEldan Goldenberg
Mostly I think this is a good thing. I've been making Seattle home for a long time, and this feels like a milestone in the completion of that process. But it is weird how alienated I now feel from my _own_ accent.
Apr 15, 2018 at 10:32pmWeb
Show threadhypertext thomassonApr 16, 2018
@eldang that's so interesting. have you noticed any changes in your accent since you no longer really feel a connection to it?
Show threadEldan GoldenbergApr 17, 2018
@snoothy I haven't noticed. There has been a slight gradual shift in, but really gradual.