In order of appearance: wildcard, simplified, traditional.
Definitely not the Australian . my jaw will break and my vocal cords will wear out at an early age.
Why did you train so badly?!
Why choose when you can just randomly mix them
Just choose Australian. Tbh we don’t care how you say it just be loud.
Just call them prawns, that’s all we ask.
*scrimps
Oh boi, I’m too introverted to ever be loud
Think of it more as a whisper, just loud enough to be heard :')
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British - fancy
America - normal
Australia - wildcard
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, … ?
America should be Eevee, because there are so many opportunities for variation.
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, …
Don’t forget the jersey one.
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.
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.
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.
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.
From what I can tell there’s 30-40 each and about 160 world wide. Crazy!
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.
Ya call that an accent?
Americans for some reason don’t like it when you say they speak with an accent. It’s pretty interesting.
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.
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!
put a ! in front of your link and it will open in the users home instance. [email protected]
Thanks for the link. I feel like I never do it right 😂
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] .
I feel like all three of those accents have normal/fancy/wildcard options within them
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 an Aussie I can confirm we have normal & wildcard, anyone trying fancy is just a knobhead.
Atleast we’re bilingual
tabweh! … it translates to ‘this is true’ in Ojibway-Cree in my language in northern Ontario.
Hiddy-ho there you drunken bastard
But you already said American
well they did have their own language until we fucked them out of it
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I like to press wild flowers
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I have a buddy who learned English as a second language early in life and he has a fluent Irish accent. I’ve never been able to wrap my head around that one.
It’s always so interesting to hear surprise accents.
I once took a short trip through the south of Germany near Nuremberg … we were just on a random trip not knowing what we were doing in a rental car. We stopped at a gas station to get gas and got some help from an attendant, a young German teenager who spoke some English.
He talked to us in the weirdest accent I ever heard … a combination of English with a German accent and a touch of southern Texan or southern American. He had grown up learning English from army personnel from the American US base nearby.
I’m Canadian in Ontario and the first five years of my life, all I spoke or heard was my cultural language Ojibway-Cree. I went to school where I learned English but continued to only mostly speak my language.
Then I spent an awkward period as a teenager speaking English with a Native accent … a classic TV stereotypical Native accent and it was horrible. It took me about a decade to get over that phase, now I speak English as boringly as any Canadian. Not bad eh?
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
I have read British and American books galore (i.e. thousands), and I’ve listened to English (BBC, BFBS) and American (AFN, Movies) audio sources. My vocabulary and accent is a wild mix of both, so the British consider me American, and the American think I’m British.
I like to speak in an old timey movie gangster accent ya see.
Somebody needs to speak the extinct Hollywood transatlantic accent. I’ve found that some US celebrities still seem to have it
I love that accent and would watch the news if it were still delivered like that.
Absolutely
Lets start an ESL school that only teaches the transatlantic accent and see if we can revive it.
It’s just as bad in spanish. I’m an american with a colombian paisa accent in spanish and it messes with the mexicans. They love it since it’s not what they usually hear.
Whenever someone who speaks Spanish asks me if I speak it, I always respond, “Oon pokeeto, paro solaminty en oon assento Gringo.” Gets either a laugh or a groan every time. 😈
I think Americans usually learn Mexican Spanish. That’s definitely what I learned, güey.
I think Finnish school teaches the American pronunciation.
In my case; western games further hammered that down between my ears.
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.
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.
