This! My English accent is so all over the place, I can't even spot the differences if I hear them. I can't tell, If someone is British, American, Australian etc because I mix them up so much myself
I'm quite found of accents myself, like that SS officer in the bar scene from Inglorious Basterds lol, would love to have a conversation and dissect it
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.
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.
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?
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 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.
Ironically, US English is in many ways more traditional than UK English. The US uses many words and phrases that used to be common to both continents but later changed in the UK.
US did try to de-French most spellings with mixed success.
Yeah, but there's still the tendency to simplify things (e.g. "color" vs "colour") and the ever shortening of phrases as if it's difficult to say the whole thing ("macaroni and cheese").
Changing spellings to match pronunciation should happen more often, to ne honest. And I don't think UK or Australian English get to throw any stones about shortening words and phrases, the US isn't calling anything "spag bol".
As an American I feel like either US or UK could be considered the "normal" one, UK or AUS the "fancy" one, and US and AUS the "wildcard" (from the UK perspective).
Fancy maybe wouldn't be the best word, perhaps exotic, but I know there's plenty of us who, depending on the Aussie, might not be able to tell the accent from a British one and just go "ooh, accent, fancy".
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
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.
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.
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.
I got mine originally from TV, as in my country everything is subtitled, so that means I ended up with an americanized accent (it isn't really an "american" accent because there is no such things as an american accents but rather several).
It was of course poluted by my own native language (portuguese, from Lisbon) accent.
Then I went and lived in The Netherlands for almost a decade so my accent started adding dutch "effects" (like a "yes" that sounds more like "ya", similar to the dutch "ja").
And after that I lived for over a decade in England, so my accent moved a lot towards the English RP accent. In fact I can either do my lazy accent (which is the mix of accents I have) or pull it towards a pretty decent English RP accent if needed for clarity.
By this point I can actually do several English Language accents, though mostly only enough to deceive foreigners rather than locals - so, say, a Scottish accent that will deceive Americans but Brits can spot it as not really being any of the various Scottish accents - including the accents of foreign language speakers in English (i.e. how a french or italian will sounds speaking english or even the full-force portuguese accent when speaking english, which I don't naturally have anymore).
That said, IMHO it is very hard for somebody who grew up in a foreign country speaking a foreign language to fine tune their accent so that it sounds perfect to the ears of a local, and this is valid for all languages, not just English.
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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 once did one of those quizzes that figures out where your American accent is from and I got mostly LA and midwest. Makes sense since I learned from watching TV shows.
There's many regional differences in American English.
First, pronunciation is always changing, and changes tend to happen regionally.
For example, there's the Mary-merry-marry merger. A bit over half of American speakers pronounce all three of those words identically, as mɛri. About 17% of Americans have a full three-way contrast. In NYC, for example, they'd say meɹi, mæɹi, and mɛɹi. And other people merged two of the three.
The pen-pin merger is a famous feature of southern American dialects.
Some words have regional pronunciations - crayon can have one or two syllables, for example.
And then there's regional words, like pop vs soda, bucket vs pail, firefly vs lightning bug, you vs y'all vs yinz vs youse vs you lot vs you all vs you guys etc.
By asking about all of those sorts of things, you can figure out where someone's from.
Dialect tests. Think about how someone from boston might say "park" like "pahk" vs other parts of the country, or if someone uses "y'all" where they might be from. The way people pronounce o,a, ai, ough, augh type of sounds is very telling. Also phrases are very regional. There are many studies that compile that data. One famous dataset is used in a Times article that is behind a paywall, here are some people talking about it:
https://peabodyawards.com/nytimesdialectquiz/
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 have a Brazilian friend who every now and again will say a word with a perfect Irish accent because that’s how she learned it. Catches you off guard every now and then lol
Don't be discouraged, it doesn't come naturally and there is good reason to do so.
The Scots are generally awesome people and the world needs more fer's, aye's and nae's in general.
Jus' expose yerself tae sum more Sco'ish and ye'll be jus' fine, lad.
How about Northside Dubliners picking a Dub Southside accent to sound posher, or Southsiders picking a Northside Dub accent to sound more gangsta? It's an actual thing. ^^
Speaking of Irish accents! First time I heard someone with a Cork accent I lost my shit. It sounds exactly like a Scanian (Southern Sweden) person speaking with an Irish accent. It's delightful.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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?
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.
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.
I've done so many accents at this point I don't even know what my real accent is anymore, but people always think I'm actually from New York or New Jersey until I start talking.
No. Wild card is you learned English in a foreign non English native country and your accent is an absolute mess. You say Autumn but Taxi, color but wa(t)er, and maybe you call you cell phone your "Handy".
I'd rather dub the US variant a wildcard, based on it being the result of mixing English and all the other languages of settlers. Also, the US and its variations are very common and shadow the other variants which is somewhat sad.
well they did have their own language until we fucked them out of it
Hiddy-ho there you drunken bastard
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 bars
Let's be real here, we usually just stick all of them in a blender and pour ourselves one glass of perfectly mixed accent juice
This! My English accent is so all over the place, I can't even spot the differences if I hear them. I can't tell, If someone is British, American, Australian etc because I mix them up so much myself
I'm quite found of accents myself, like that SS officer in the bar scene from Inglorious Basterds lol, would love to have a conversation and dissect it
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.
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.
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
Ocracoke Brogue
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 :')
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.
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?
Have you seen Reservation Dogs? I've heard that Willie Jack has a Canadian Native accent, is that the case?
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 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.
My English accent usually depends on the most common accent in the podcasts I've been hearing that week
Lmao
In order of appearance: wildcard, simplified, traditional.
Ironically, US English is in many ways more traditional than UK English. The US uses many words and phrases that used to be common to both continents but later changed in the UK.
US did try to de-French most spellings with mixed success.
Yeah, but there's still the tendency to simplify things (e.g. "color" vs "colour") and the ever shortening of phrases as if it's difficult to say the whole thing ("macaroni and cheese").
Changing spellings to match pronunciation should happen more often, to ne honest. And I don't think UK or Australian English get to throw any stones about shortening words and phrases, the US isn't calling anything "spag bol".
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
Eh I'm not even trying, I try to articulate more but it's hard, also everyone tells me it's great so 🤷
arrives late….
Cunts….
I don't think you choose, it's just kinda what you grow up around
OMG our usernames can be emojis??
It's a cosmetic thing. @[email protected] here has set a display name in addition to their username, which I believe supports any unicode character.
Phew. I thought this could lead to Unicode in URLs, which can get nasty.
I know a 100% native english speaker, who randomly switches between british, australian, Scottish and American accents.
As an American I feel like either US or UK could be considered the "normal" one, UK or AUS the "fancy" one, and US and AUS the "wildcard" (from the UK perspective).
Oh UK would definitely be the fancy one. It would need to be like a David Attenborough accent though
Implying a Cockney accent isn't fancy
Australian as the fancy one??
Fancy maybe wouldn't be the best word, perhaps exotic, but I know there's plenty of us who, depending on the Aussie, might not be able to tell the accent from a British one and just go "ooh, accent, fancy".
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.
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.
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 got mine originally from TV, as in my country everything is subtitled, so that means I ended up with an americanized accent (it isn't really an "american" accent because there is no such things as an american accents but rather several).
It was of course poluted by my own native language (portuguese, from Lisbon) accent.
Then I went and lived in The Netherlands for almost a decade so my accent started adding dutch "effects" (like a "yes" that sounds more like "ya", similar to the dutch "ja").
And after that I lived for over a decade in England, so my accent moved a lot towards the English RP accent. In fact I can either do my lazy accent (which is the mix of accents I have) or pull it towards a pretty decent English RP accent if needed for clarity.
By this point I can actually do several English Language accents, though mostly only enough to deceive foreigners rather than locals - so, say, a Scottish accent that will deceive Americans but Brits can spot it as not really being any of the various Scottish accents - including the accents of foreign language speakers in English (i.e. how a french or italian will sounds speaking english or even the full-force portuguese accent when speaking english, which I don't naturally have anymore).
That said, IMHO it is very hard for somebody who grew up in a foreign country speaking a foreign language to fine tune their accent so that it sounds perfect to the ears of a local, and this is valid for all languages, not just English.
No thanks. We non-native/native english speaker from South East Asia have our own accent.
Singapore goes "laaaaa".
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.
Oi cunt!
The bogan talk fits my gopnik soul like cat's pyjamas
American, have considered immigrating just for the ability to use this phrase on the reg.
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.
[email protected]
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.
put a ! in front of your link and it will open in the users home instance. ![email protected]
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Good bot!
Thanks for the link. I feel like I never do it right 😂
Do you know is there something like this for German?
Yes, there's ![email protected] .
You could try
c/Englischlernen
I mean I'm learning German. Or are you saying go there to ask about that?
I have no idea. I hope you find one.
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 once did one of those quizzes that figures out where your American accent is from and I got mostly LA and midwest. Makes sense since I learned from watching TV shows.
Wait how does that work?
There's many regional differences in American English.
First, pronunciation is always changing, and changes tend to happen regionally.
For example, there's the Mary-merry-marry merger. A bit over half of American speakers pronounce all three of those words identically, as mɛri. About 17% of Americans have a full three-way contrast. In NYC, for example, they'd say meɹi, mæɹi, and mɛɹi. And other people merged two of the three.
The pen-pin merger is a famous feature of southern American dialects.
Some words have regional pronunciations - crayon can have one or two syllables, for example.
And then there's regional words, like pop vs soda, bucket vs pail, firefly vs lightning bug, you vs y'all vs yinz vs youse vs you lot vs you all vs you guys etc.
By asking about all of those sorts of things, you can figure out where someone's from.
Dialect tests. Think about how someone from boston might say "park" like "pahk" vs other parts of the country, or if someone uses "y'all" where they might be from. The way people pronounce o,a, ai, ough, augh type of sounds is very telling. Also phrases are very regional. There are many studies that compile that data. One famous dataset is used in a Times article that is behind a paywall, here are some people talking about it: https://peabodyawards.com/nytimesdialectquiz/
Another random one from buzzfeed: https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewziegler/dialect-quiz
And babbel: https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/american-accent-quiz
Or just search for dialect quiz.
The Buzzfeed one got where I've lived most of my life. Wasn't sure where it would say since I moved around a lot as a kid.
I chose Russia (despite being born in Germany and not of Russian heritage). It just sounds more badass than a German accent.
My accent is a mix of all these three, plus the effect my friends from India have hd on me
i pick English canada always
American with "eh" it is.
Depends where you are, we do have an accent but it’s really hard to find people with it now
Really? Because everyone on Trailer Park Boys and Letterkenny has it. And I say that as a northern Minnesotan.
Can people not tell the difference between them and the out for a rip song guy/Bob and Doug?
And yeah, you’ll know the accent but in Toronto people just sound and act American
Don't forget about the 'sorry' key.
It's amariceh
Nah more like American-eh
It's UK spelling. Colour instead of color, etc.
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
Atleast we're bilingual
tabweh! ... it translates to 'this is true' in Ojibway-Cree in my language in northern Ontario.
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'd low-key like to learn a Scottish accent. But I doubt it would ever be good.
I have a Brazilian friend who every now and again will say a word with a perfect Irish accent because that’s how she learned it. Catches you off guard every now and then lol
Don't be discouraged, it doesn't come naturally and there is good reason to do so. The Scots are generally awesome people and the world needs more fer's, aye's and nae's in general.
Jus' expose yerself tae sum more Sco'ish and ye'll be jus' fine, lad.
I've got 'em all plus the indian scammer one >:D
Here in finland we also have our very own thing: rally english
How about Northside Dubliners picking a Dub Southside accent to sound posher, or Southsiders picking a Northside Dub accent to sound more gangsta? It's an actual thing. ^^
Speaking of Irish accents! First time I heard someone with a Cork accent I lost my shit. It sounds exactly like a Scanian (Southern Sweden) person speaking with an Irish accent. It's delightful.
Whenever I meet people from Cork, I always think they're either reading a poem or singing a song to me. Which can be quite unnerving, to be honest.
Are they bad singers?
Hahaha. I love that.
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
Lets start an ESL school that only teaches the transatlantic accent and see if we can revive it.
I love that accent and would watch the news if it were still delivered like that.
Absolutely
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
British - fancy
America - normal
Australia - wildcard
America should be Eevee, because there are so many opportunities for variation.
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.
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!
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.
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.
Don't forget the jersey one.
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.
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.
America - which one of Southern (various), U.P., Massachusetts, Atlantic, valley girl, NYC (various) Minnesota, Philly, Chicago, ... ?
Imo Indian English should be normal as it's spoken by more people.
Ooooo, which is which!
I'll never tell
That's just evil. Anyways, I made popcorn.
I'd mix everything just for kicks :)
I'm not even aware of what my accent sounds like. Probably a weird amalgamation of everything.
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?!
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.
this post is about native accents. choose an accent (from native accents), normal, fancy or wildcard.
sorry, I re-read your post this morning, I missed when you said "official languages" for some reason. I take your point
I've done so many accents at this point I don't even know what my real accent is anymore, but people always think I'm actually from New York or New Jersey until I start talking.
Steal?
US is normal
UK is fancy
Aussie is wildcard
No. Wild card is you learned English in a foreign non English native country and your accent is an absolute mess. You say Autumn but Taxi, color but wa(t)er, and maybe you call you cell phone your "Handy".
Also, you never considered pronouncing gif as “jiff” because your native language (German), where you heard it first, has no soft G.
Pretty sure you've got Aussie and US arse about.
UK is traditional
US is simplified
Aus is wildcard
I'd rather dub the US variant a wildcard, based on it being the result of mixing English and all the other languages of settlers. Also, the US and its variations are very common and shadow the other variants which is somewhat sad.
Latin Americans: nah, ima do my own thing