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US kids speaking like Brits

It weirds me out that some of these social media kids from other countries are speaking English with American accents.
 
TylerW said:
A few years ago there was a fantastic quiz in the NY Times that asked a bunch of questions about what words you use to say certain things, or how you pronounce various words. It was able to identify the specific county I grew up in.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/dialect-quiz-map.html

I'm really wondering what effect two years of living in NYS has done to mu accent. this place doesn't have a very perceptible accent but a subtle one. It'll be fun times when I get to see some friends and family in CA again and they'll all tell me I talk funny now.
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My possibilities are Denver, Lincoln, or Omaha. I’ve never been to either.
 
ScorpioVI said:
It weirds me out that some of these social media kids from other countries are speaking English with American accents.
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People develop an accent based on the language dialect they're most used to hearing, and a lot of heard English is from American television.

Kinda similar to how in a lot of asian countries like India and Japan, they learn english from British instruction, and develop a british accent as a result.
 
tuxumino said:
I watched a lot of Monty Python as kid but this probably makes it far worse.

https://www.audacy.com/kcbsradio/ne...picked-up-british-accents-thanks-to-peppa-pig

Children in the U.S. have picked up British accents during the pandemic, parents say, because of how characters on the animated British preschool show “Peppa Pig” speak.
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I keep an American Accent, but I use many British words.

When I ask people if we have gotten the "aluminium back from the bloody Labor-atory yet," Americans and Britains are both horrified and confused while Australians are mainly just drunk and missed it, because they were peeing in a bush outside.

wazzuFreddo said:
I was in Ireland a couple of years ago and struck up a conversation in Spanish with some Spaniards. They were confused and wanted to know why I sounded Mexican. :laughing

Because Mexico is where I learned Spanish, I’m from California, not Europe. :p
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This also applies to people in Central and South America. From what they all tell me, none of them knwo what the fuck Mexicans are talking about. Apparently they are the Spanish Speaking equivalent of the Scottish or mostly related to the speed, Bog Irish.
 
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The thing we found the hardest to deal with linguistically when we moved here is that back in the UK we have dozens of words for essentially the same thing, each with a subtle but important nuance.

We found the total opposite here, i.e. each region has a much narrower vocabulary.

Our early conversations would go something like: "excuse me, we are trying to find the ally/ginnell/snicket/path to the beach" or "where is the nearest car-park/multistory/lot/parking lot ?"

After 30 years, when we go back we now have the opposite issue and we get responses like "d'jyawan' n underground, multistory or open air?"
 
I've got a friend from Birmingham; he can't say "Both in the same month."

It comes out as "Bofe in the same mumph."
 
Johndicezx9 said:
I've got a friend from Birmingham; he can't say "Both in the same month."

It comes out as "Bofe in the same mumph."
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You should try to work that into every conversation as a clarifying question for him to repeat. :laughing
 
SM610 said:
New speech patterns that grind on my last nerve...

Impor ent = important
Mow ens = mountains
Bu ens = buttons
Cur ens = curtains
Ki ens =kittens

Obviously eliminating the "t" in words is new and hip or something. Admit it, you do it don't you? DONT YOU?!?!:laughing

I used to call it FASD or female affected speech disorder, but now I hear guys doing it all the time too. There's probably an age limit, people over x age don't do it. I'm guessing about 40 yrs old is the cutoff.
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I know, right? It's almost as irritating as those who can't be bothered to write correctly. ;)

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How is "thank you" pronounced? I absolutely hate hearing "think yow".
 
Johndicezx9 said:
Too Cockney.
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I stand corrected. Thats impor ent...
 
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SM610 said:
I stand corrected. Thats impor ent...
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That missing consonant is called a glottal stop. Its very widely used in Northern England. There are debates as to whether some words ever had a consonant there.
 
gun·wale
/ˈɡənl/

the upper edge of the side of a boat or ship.
 
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