[John]

Very interesting question to me, a military linguist whose great grandmother was a full-blooded Cherokee. Being from the South, I always noticed that our Northern compatriots seemed to speak faster than us in the South. When stationed in England, I noticed the remarkable speed with which the English spoke our ‘common tongue’ compared to any American. And when I learned French and other European languages, the speed of their spoken language was a hard hurdle for me to overcome, as it was with British English. To jump to my point, I believe that industry-based cultures had a need to speak faster just to be ever-more industrious, whereas rural, agriculture-based societies, such as Native American and Southern, had a slower lifestyle and ergo a slower speech pattern.

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Name : John, Gender : M, Race : White/Caucasian, Age : 33, City : Tucson, State : AZ, Country : United States, Occupation : Military, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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