• AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
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    5 hours ago

    If you can do a reasonably standard English accent, Americans will mentally add 20 IQ points to how intelligent they perceive you to be.

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      I once met a woman that was in her late 20s. Worked in tech for 3 years in Prague, and had a pretty TV style British accent.

      She was from the Midwest. Spent 3 years in Prague and visited the UK like 3 times, then moved back to Chicago. Insisted she “worked with a lot of Brits and it just stuck.”

      Yeah, I’ve worked with a lot of tall people. Didn’t make me grow taller.

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        Yeah, I’ve worked with a lot of tall people. Didn’t make me grow taller.

        You should have worked with small people. That works better.

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          Can confirm.

          Am short and have dragged many coworkers down from their lofty peaks to my dreaded land of needing step ladders.

          Also occasionally delving too greedily and too deep.

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      Unless it’s one of those incomprehensible accents that we can barely comprehend. It’s got to be an RP sounding accent for me to consider adding the IQ points.