heeeeeee. my dad writes a lot so, now that he can't type, he has to use a voice dictation program to operate windows. he has a pretty standard, tv-like american accent, no strong regionalisms, and he speaks clearly for most things, which is optimal for dragon naturally speaking (the leading program in the field of voice recognition). but we had a family friend from minnesota, and i imagine you know what they sound like - he tried to use the same program and it couldn't decipher his accent, so he ended up with an 80% error rate. as you can imagine, next to useless.

and please ramble as much as you want about accents! there's a little kernel of frustrated linguist in me that never got to study much linguistics and i find it fascinating. i don't know much about the irish accent though. i keep getting it confused with scottish and welsh which makes wax, who spent six months in ireland when she was a teenager, very impatient. :) you'll probably get used to the dublin accent though. i spent six months in texas, and i used to think i hated the accent, but i did mostly get used to it. and i even learned to appreciate the deep south accent from alabama where i grew up (which as a child i also loathed).

i was trying to work on my band of princes fic but then i was um. writing crack telepathic tezuryo drabbles for aja instead. :? i am so excited about this mystery fic you're writing for me! even though i kind of feel that i am undeserving. i mean. ♥! ♥♥♥♥