USdefaultism of this post should be used in The International Bureau of Weights and Measures as the metrics for all other USdefaultisms.
333 million Americans, 67 million Brits, 26 million Australians.
1.4 billion Indians. So what?
They’re talking about native English speakers. Did you really not get that? There are also a lot of Chinese people, try yelling that out of context, also.
English is one of the official languages in India.
Even if only 1/10 of Indians grew up speaking it alongside Hindi or one of the other official languages (it’s a pretty big and varied country), it still adds up to 140 million people, so the previous poster has a valid point.
sorry, I re-read your post this morning, I missed when you said “official languages” for some reason. I take your point
this post is about native accents. choose an accent (from native accents), normal, fancy or wildcard.
In Europe we call it “Euro-English”
Ngl as someone who speaks British English I find Europeans with American accents hot
Ah right, Americans that aren’t actually American, gotcha.
Or is it not just us Euro folks but the Accent in general?
I don’t know, I haven’t really thought about the psychology behind it tbh. I think it’s the combination of both because I come from europe as well
Ooooo, which is which!
I’ll never tell
That’s just evil. Anyways, I made popcorn.
British - fancy
America - normal
Australia - wildcard
America should be Eevee, because there are so many opportunities for variation.
Now comes the hard part of defining all the Eeveelutions.
I feel like there are a few very distinct regional accents, but I’m having trouble coming up with the right distinction from the top of my head.
There’s New England, the south in general, New York, Chicago which immediately trigger my brain to think of a very specific accent. Surely there is more to it though?
Edit: seems @[email protected] made an excellent list.
Youse have two accents, American and Southern.
Britain has a new accent every 20cm.
A Boston accent is different from a New York accent, is different from a Missouri accent, is different from a Mississippi accent, is different from a Florida accent, is different from a Texas accent, is different from an Oklahoma accent, etc. Even within states, it fully depends on how rural you live, whether you went to college… hell, even your tax bracket in some cases.
I say this as an Australian that grew up in America: the sheer size of the place is enough to have something like fifty regional accents per state. Like everything with the US: it’s fucking insane.
Hell even different NYC accents: Queens, Brooklyn, …
Tell that to someone from Bawston lol, the US has way more than 2 accents for sure. UK does have a lot though, not sure who actually has more. Let’s find a linguist!
That’s not even counting the farts!
Oh, they’re beyond number.
Lmao to me Britain has two accents, Scottish and English. The rest sound the same. Y’all think your accents are so special to the point where it gets cringe sometimes.
There’s a dozen Southern accents alone.
Don’t forget the jersey one.
America actually has very little geographic variation in accents.
In the UK, for instance, it can change drastically from village to village.
It’s funny when people confidently make shit up on the Internet
Maybe for the regions that only speak one language. East Texas alone mixes English, Spanish, French and German dialects. It’s like a sitcom of bad accents down there.
British should be eevee if anything. There are double the British accents compared to American ones. Cockney, London, Welsh, Scottish, Northern Ireland are extremely distinct let alone the hundreds of other distinct regional accents.
Tbf they only sound “extremely distinct” to British people. A lot of those accents are hard to distinguish for non-native speakers or people outside the UK.
From what I can tell there’s 30-40 each and about 160 world wide. Crazy!
Same for the us, though. NY, Boston, Midwestern, New England, Minnesota, Atlantic, Southern, Texan, Pacific Nw, Californian. And various specific regional like queens, Brooklyn, Philly. It goes on and on. The US is not the monolith it’s often described as.
Imo Indian English should be normal as it’s spoken by more people.
America - which one of Southern (various), U.P., Massachusetts, Atlantic, valley girl, NYC (various) Minnesota, Philly, Chicago, … ?
i’m no expert in vexillology but even i can tell that that’s a c- at best
They’re getting a new one! https://youtu.be/lFwwo0W5Ugg
well they did have their own language until we fucked them out of it
Hiddy-ho there you drunken bastard
But you already said American
They’re a lumberjack and that’s ok!
I cut down trees, I skip and jump
I like to press wild flowers
I put on women’s clothing
And hang around in barsdeleted by creator
No thanks. We non-native/native english speaker from South East Asia have our own accent.
Singapore goes “laaaaa”.
No no, I speak a combination of the three. Although American English dominates my accent. That’s what you get when you grow up watching English-speaking media. You pick up their accents and you make one of your own.
arrives late….
Cunts….
Haha you’ll never take my French accent away!
By trying to get rid of it I accidentally took the German accent, not sure how that works
I lived in South Korea for a while and I met a South Korean young lady who had learned English from an Australian teacher. This Korean girl had the most beautiful Australian accent with a hint of Korean. She was very talkative, Asian people get excited when they meet english-speakers so they can practice speaking English with us. So she talked a lot. It was a beautiful culture medley.
i pick English canada always
i use cookie and biscuit like they mean different things
cookie: has chocolate or hazelnut
biscuit: has jam, has arbitrary flavors like lemon or has no other flavors
i use them like this: cookies are chewy, biscuits are crunchy
American with “eh” it is.
It’s amariceh
Nah more like American-eh
Depends where you are, we do have an accent but it’s really hard to find people with it now
It’s UK spelling. Colour instead of color, etc.
I think Finnish school teaches the American pronunciation.
In my case; western games further hammered that down between my ears.
Interesting. German schools teach British English. It’s with time that I was more and more influenced by American English but first and foremost I have a strong German accent
In the UK, schools largely teach European French/Spanish/etc.
I wish more European countries would teach European (British) English.
Teaching British English would certainly feel the most appropriate as it is the local variant
You can teach whatever, the kids are still going to get way more exposure to American accents than British from tv and movies.
I think it was British pronunciation considering that (at least when I was still in school) we also learned to write British English instead of American English.
Later on in high school they said you could write either, but you had to stick to one or it would count as a mistake.
When were you in school?
I think about the 2000-2011 time period (from 3rd grade to trade school).
Around that same time. Searching online I didn’t find anything saying it’s either one but rather both with both being acceptable (but not mixing as mentioned). Seems to depend on the teacher with lot of the older (possibly now retired) teachers being more familiar and teaching British English, sometimes as the only “correct” one and younger (not particularly young now) generation of teachers being more familiar with American English and teaching primarily that.
So, depends. Both are taught, there’s no unified policy for preference of one over another that I could find.
Okay cool.
There’s a chance that I had a British English teacher back in the secondary school…I don’t recall much, let alone speaking British myself.At one point I had one of those teachers that thought British English was the only correct one. She was a real superfan of the British royal family and took sickdays or just made us watch with her if there was some televised event hah.
I feel like all three of those accents have normal/fancy/wildcard options within them
As an Aussie I can confirm we have normal & wildcard, anyone trying fancy is just a knobhead.
Actually, I’d like to have my accent sound like a white south african, like how Leonardo DiCaprio speaks in blood diamond.
As a white South African, I’d like to not sound like one
I’ve had a scottish-texan accent for half a year once, and now I have an american accent sometimes while speaking german, my mother language, shit’s wild
Scottish-Texan? I can’t even comprehend what that would sound like. Congratulations, you’ve been speaking an eldritch tongue. Try not to summon Cthulhu.
As a native speaker, I agree.
But the way check out c/Englishlearning if you are learning English.
There is not much there, but I’m happy to help and answer questions.
c/Englishlearning
is this the right link to the community you are talking about? I thought I’d help by creating the link. It’s not easy to get those links sometimes.
Thanks for the link. I feel like I never do it right 😂
put a ! in front of your link and it will open in the users home instance. [email protected]
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]
Good bot!
Do you know is there something like this for German?
I have no idea. I hope you find one.
You could try
c/Englischlernen
I mean I’m learning German. Or are you saying go there to ask about that?
Yes, there’s [email protected] .
