Re: English in America

 

On Jul 21, 10:49 am, awa...@darmar.com wrote:

Speaking American's not good enough for them ?
They want us to speak some sort of foo foo English ?

I suppose next they're gonna be whining about
spelling and punctuation and wanting our frikking
sentences to make sense.

 


(SNIP)


As are your opin

 


(Shrug)

It's still getting more and more difficult every year to tell a
American's origins by his accent, and it's been trending that way ever
since WW2.

Not only are Americans no longer pinned down to the same locale all
their lives -which is how regional accents form in the first place-
but since kids everywhere tend to copy their speech patterns from the
voices they hear the most, and nearly *all* kids these days watch
*huge* amounts of TV while they're still forming their speech
patterns, it's no surprise that American accents are becoming
standardised to the variety most commonly spoken on TV programs, and
that's largely the midwestern/California dialect unless you have a
sweet tooth for old "Andy Griffith Show" reruns.

 

Twibil wrote:


It's curious that in Australia everyone from Perth to Sydney
speaks pretty well the same dialect (not counting the Aborigines).

Meanwhile the UK, with a land area that would fit into a third
of New South Wales alone has many local dialects -- apparently
not everyone speaks like HM the Queen giving her annual address.

SQ

 



Good point, perhaps the Queen should do more to give you chaps in a
colonies a taste of our rich tapestry of dialects and get a voice
coach in to teach her a different regional accent every year ...

"Y'alreet?  One's had a canny year, like..."