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Curtis:
Hey Spencer, so I was just thinking, it's kind of interesting.
Sometimes your accent, it's hard to pinpoint where it's from, sometimes I
think it's from a country outside of the US, but you're from North
Carolina, right?
柯蒂斯：
嗨，斯宾塞，我在想，这很有意思。有时你的口音让人很难确定你来自哪里，有时我以为你来自美国以外的国家，不过其实你来自北卡罗来纳州，对吧？
Spencer:
I am from North Carolina, although the other day I was at Starbucks and
ran into
some
friends, one of whom, I never met before and she said, "Oh, where are
you from?" And I said, "North Carolina." And she's like, "Are you sure?"
Yeah. No, I've lived with a ton of different people from just all over
the world and I've found that I've come to mimic their accents. My best
friend, she's Welsh and then probably after her my two best friends are,
one's Aussie and one's Kiwi. And so everybody who I meet tells me that I
tend to sound either Australian or New Zealand ish or Kiwi or even
British. So yeah. No. And it's funny too because of American accents,
people tend to think that the south has a very strong dialect, they
speak really slow, sound...
斯宾塞：
我来自北卡罗来纳州，那天我在星巴克遇到了几个朋友，其中有一个人我以前从来没见过，她说：“哦，你来自哪里？”我回答说：“北卡罗来纳州。”然后她说：“你说真的吗？”我回答是的。我和来自世界各地的人一起生活过，我发现我总会模仿他们的口音。我最好的朋友是威尔士人，我还有两个好朋友，一个是澳大利亚人，另一个是新西兰人。我遇到的所有人都跟我说，我的口音听起来像澳大利亚人或是新西兰人，甚至是英国人。嗯，这其实很有趣，因为一般人们认为美国南方人的口音很重，他们说话很慢，听起来……
Curtis:
Right, right. Extra vowels.
柯蒂斯：
对，没错。有附加的元音。
Spencer:
Extra vowels, yeah, from Wilmington, North Carolina. But no, like I've
lived out of the country now for a couple of years and nobody has really
been able to pinpoint me, "Oh, North Carolinian, yeah, southern
accent." So yeah, no way. I have a mixed blend of accents.
斯宾塞：
附加的元音，就像这样：我来自北卡罗来纳州威尔明顿市。不过现在我已经在美国以外的国家生活了几年的时间，没人能确定我来自哪里，没人说：“哦，你来自北卡罗来纳州，嗯，你有南方口音”。没有人做到。我有好几种口音。
Curtis:
So what accents are your favorites?
柯蒂斯：
你最喜欢哪种口音？
Spencer:
I really love the South African dialect of English, it's, you know, a
mix of British English, Australian and it's just really cool sounding to
me. I also really like the Kiwi, the New Zealand accent, some
Australian but not quite, I feel like they don't quite
hang on to
