i used to think that everyone talked like americans, that no one really had an accent - they were just talking funny to be amusing. i guess this all started when i heard the beatles sing on the radio, and then heard them talking to the interviewer or whatever - they sounded "american" when they sang, but not when they were just talking. yah, i was weird...
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- Until about age 9, I thought there was a country called "Operaland" where everyone sang instead of talking.Anon
- I heard my mum talking about foreign people, and I later asked, "have you ever been to Foreign?"— Kia
- Because of Pocahontas, I grew up believing Native Americans noises sounded like English to Native Americans.Anon
- When I was a kid I heard that the Beatles did acid and I wondered if they melted from it.Anon
- I used to believe the people of television were talking to me alone !— Margaux, a French student in eighth grade
- That people older than me knew what they were talking about.— Mark