Shifting among accents isn’t a sign of a fragmented self, but only of a well-traveled one.Geoffrey Nunberg, “The Real Thing,” in The Years of Talking Dangerously (New York: PublicAffairs, 2009), p. 99
When I hear someone described as having no accent, I think of those pinkish Crayola crayons we used to have that were labeled "flesh."Id. p. 100.
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