I said "post box" to my partner's mum and she just nodded along, but she had no idea WTF.
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I come from a diglossic culture though. I also have no (anglo)Cypriot accent whatsoever, I totally lost it after living in UK after 3 years
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Now I've been here for a decade+ and my partner is American so I switch between US (my rendition) and UK (again my rendition) so much that
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most people think I'm half-UK half-US. Amusing, and also not technically as wrong as they might think given I'm Cypriot.
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To clarify both my mum's parents were USAmerican (although ethnically Cyp) and my dad in British. But I am a Cypriot primarily.
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I can do a "mock" Cypriot accent but it's totally fake and I only do it when I insert an English word into a Cypriot Greek sentence.
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Also diglossia in Cyprus makes it very clear to me that languages which people think are the same are not. If I meet a Greek person I will
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let them talk to me in Greek but will probably reply in English.
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