Okay, we were talking and got curious, so I’m going to post this sample and ask for your input.
From what you can hear in this recording, where do you think this person is from?
(Apologies for poor audio quality.)
@injygo replied: ‘instinctively, I think “lives in Minnesota but family is Irish”’
Huh, interesting. That is not any of the answers I was expecting.
(Everyone else: please submit a guess first before reading below the cut, as there are spoilers.)
justice-turtle said: I couldn’t understand enough of the words to venture an opinion on the accent (probably a combination of poor audio quality and my known auditory processing troubles), but knowing you’re interested in the weird ways brains work, it might be relevant to note that the *tune* was immediately and obviously Irish to me (having scrolled down and seen that it’s Phil Collins, that makes sense), and that once I caught the line “we came from the north and we came from the south”, my brain decided (cont’d)
justice-turtle said: (cont’d) decided that was an extremely Canadian-folk-specific line and therefore you must be the singer. (I have no idea what song this is and therefore whether that assessment is true, though I assume I could google the line.) I don’t know if *you* actually sounded more Canadian once I decided that or whether my brain was just doing brain shit, but I’d suspect the latter on principle.
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