On 21 Aug 2011 23:52:30 GMT, notbob > wrote:

>On 2011-08-21, Dave Smith > wrote:
>
>> accent. He had been hanging out with South Africans and had picked up
>> their accent. It was gone within a week of his return.
>
>Yep. I lost mine within weeks.
>
>In the service, you meet ppl from everywhere. Once, we were sitting
>around discussing accents. One guy said I must be from CA. I'd never
>told anyone. I asked him how he knew, as I had no accent. He said
>that's how he knew.

Californians have no accent, they have a certain syntax... you know,
like, airhead.