Trying Really Hard to not use the word "We."

We say "we" all the time when we don't mean to. I remember one time a couple weeks ago, my aunt called through the door to be sure I dressed warmly for my walk outside, so I was like "we will!...I will!"

Most people don't notice it at least, so that's good.

Eisa wrote:Most people don't notice it at least, so that's good.

Yes I agree. People are surprisingly unobservant really.

salted lipstick wrote:

Eisa wrote:Most people don't notice it at least, so that's good.

Yes I agree. People are surprisingly unobservant really.

Which works out well for multiples.

I still can't believe one of our insiders who has a British accent (an obvious British accent, at that) once came out for like 12 hours, spoke to my aunt and my mom, and neither of them said a word or acted like anything was unusual at all.

So the occasional use of "we?" Almost always goes unnoticed, I think.

I'm pretty good about using "I". Once in a while in therapy I catch myself saying we and really quickly change it to I - I think she's caught on a bit by now though. This happens probably once every 2-3 sessions. I've worked on it a lot and definitely say I 90%+ of the time

So the occasional use of "we?" Almost always goes unnoticed, I think.

Defiantly, saying "you" when talking about 'me' has gotten me in far more trouble than saying we instead of 'I'.

I find the accent slip up more noticable, but whether twangy or british, people assume I just watched a foreign clip or what not. It's the change in tempo/volume that really gets me the strange looks, especially when I return to my default mode a couple minutes later.

If you are consistently inconsistent people will consider that a part of your nature, and just say, well, that's you. Or if you act like nothing happened, they'll take that as a cue that nothing abnormal just happened. People seem to walk around with blinders on alot.

Borg wrote:I find the accent slip up more noticable, but whether twangy or british, people assume I just watched a foreign clip or what not. It's the change in tempo/volume that really gets me the strange looks, especially when I return to my default mode a couple minutes later.

If you are consistently inconsistent people will consider that a part of your nature, and just say, well, that's you. Or if you act like nothing happened, they'll take that as a cue that nothing abnormal just happened. People seem to walk around with blinders on alot.

Haha, I agree with all of that. Some of Johann's alters, even while imitating the host's voice, will either slip up in tone a few times, or words will come out with a southern twang because at least four of them have a faded southern accent in their own voices. Johnny specifically seems to give himself away a lot whether it's calling himself by his own name instead of Johann's, using the wrong vocal tone, or using a southern phrase or letting his accent slip.

But like you said, Borg, if you act like it's completely normal no one seems to notice. Our friends consider Johann to be the joker of our group, so any time someone slips up it's viewed as a joke. If I notice someone in the system has slipped up, I usually make a joke out of it. For example, some of the more southern-rooted personalities have a tendency to say "thank you kindly" in this annoying southern courtesy way, and because it drives me insane I usually start jokingly biting their head off about it so that our friends think he's doing it intentionally to annoy me (which sometimes is the case anyway).