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British accents compared to American ones.

ChagenChagen
edited 2011-04-27 13:01:34 in General
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America has so few compared to her mother. In the US, we have like 4-6 accents for our huge landmass. That's it. Britian, on the other hand....I've heard that British people can tell where someone came from and be accurate within about 10-20 miles just from their accent, and that towns can each have their own unique accent no other town has. I wonder why.

Comments

  • ninjaclownninjaclown
    They're not accents, they're the original (to them, even proper) pronunciation of English. Technically, it's the rest of us who have accents.
  • IanExMachinaIanExMachina
    edited 2011-04-27 13:17:18
    I am Dr. Ned who is totally not Dr. Zed in disguise.
    No I'm pretty sure America(Or Britain I'm not entirely sure who you are referring to) has accents.


  • KhwarizmiKhwarizmi
    Because you never know what you might see.
    Yeah, accents don't work that way.  Brits have accents.  It is literally impossible to speak without an accent.
  • DYREDYRE
    edited 2011-04-27 13:30:23
    Also the US of America has more than 4-6 accents.
  • IanExMachinaIanExMachina
    edited 2011-04-27 13:31:58
    I am Dr. Ned who is totally not Dr. Zed in disguise.
    Maybe not popular hollywood media exported ones?
  • DYREDYRE
    I guess.  And a lot of them are kind of similar to each other anyway, but from this Wikipedia page, even just the northeastern part of the US has more than 6 different accents.
  • KhwarizmiKhwarizmi
    Because you never know what you might see.
    If you're not familiar with them, it can be hard to distinguish between some accents.

    Like, I could generally tell the difference between a Forest accent and a Somerset accent.  A Londoner probably couldn't, but might be able to tell the difference between accents from different London boroughs that I couldn't distinguish.
  • TheConductorTheConductor
    I'm Scottish.
  • ninjaclownninjaclown
    Brits don't speak in accents because their pronunciation is the original English.
  • IanExMachinaIanExMachina
    I am Dr. Ned who is totally not Dr. Zed in disguise.
    Surely you'd mean dialects with that sentence and not accents?
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    Yeah....Ninja....all people speak with accents. An accent is simply the way you say words.

    You keep sounding some British Nationalist.
  • KhwarizmiKhwarizmi
    edited 2011-04-27 14:14:49
    Because you never know what you might see.
    Ninjaclown, I'm sorry, but no, that's not true at all.  For one thing, Brits from different parts of the country have different accents from one another.  For another, IIRC, the General American accent is probably closer to Shakespeare's than the Received Pronunciation, anyway.
  • NyktosNyktos
    a little muffled
    @ninjaclown: I'm pretty sure nobody, British or otherwise, pronounces things the way they were pronounced when the language was first invented...
  • ninjaclownninjaclown
    Ugh, you guys aren't getting it, I'm quoting Jimmy Carr. That'll teach me to make obscure comedic references.
  • IanExMachinaIanExMachina
    edited 2011-04-27 14:21:15
    I am Dr. Ned who is totally not Dr. Zed in disguise.
    It doesn't work without his face and tone of voice.

    edit:

    Also he isn't obscure.
  • TheConductorTheConductor
    Either way, neither of those things are true.
  • RocketDudeRocketDude
    Poot dispenser here
    @Khwar: Well, can you answer me one thing?

    How do you pronounce Woking?
  • IanExMachinaIanExMachina
    I am Dr. Ned who is totally not Dr. Zed in disguise.
    ^ Woe -king
  • MyrmidonMyrmidon
    That's because Britain spent more time in the eras where mass communication and travel were a fantasy.
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