amanda | 22 | this blog is one giant gay shitpost | with lots of she-ra

gumuhit:

talkingsoup:

starboysisko:

travest1:

*copies your speech patterns to show you i like you*

Fun fact! This is a thing that everyone does, largely unintentionally. It’s part of a thing in linguistics called “acommodation theory” - in which people’s speech patterns and accents converge when they are  getting along and diverge when they are not getting along. 

This is mostly a subconscious process, although some people do it consciously. (One way to keep your emotional distance from other people is to make sure you don’t mirror their speech patterns, for example). 

The extent to which the speech patterns are mirrored varies person by person - accents are more likely to be mirrored by people who have lower levels of emotional attachment to specific regional accents - for instance, people who are speaking a second language are more likely to mirror an entire accent, where people who are speaking a first language are more likely to mirror things like expressions and turns of phrase rather than actual accent. 

Doing this is no way indicates you are not being yourself or that you are mocking the other person. It’s a natural human phenomenon. We try to be like one another - we are social creatures. You can even mirror things from shows and podcasts if you feel an affinity to a character or person!

WHAT THE FUCK THERES A TERM FOR IT

i knew it. all this time i’ve just been mirroring all my favorite fictional characters i’ve read in books and watched in movies

(Source: enaree)