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why do british people speak so weird
Posted on 1/8/16 at 10:17 am
Posted on 1/8/16 at 10:17 am
do they know how to speak English correctly?
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Posted on 1/8/16 at 10:19 am to HashSlingingSlasher
They all speak Arabic now baw
Posted on 1/8/16 at 10:19 am to HashSlingingSlasher
Are u 'avin a giggle there, m8? I'll fuken rek u. I swear on me mum.
Posted on 1/8/16 at 10:20 am to HashSlingingSlasher
YEA! While we're at it, whats up with those wacky Aussies! Why is everything backwards?!?
Posted on 1/8/16 at 10:20 am to HashSlingingSlasher
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do they know how to speak American correctly?
Posted on 1/8/16 at 10:21 am to HashSlingingSlasher
Ay dat quechons ha bit o a sticky wicket ther chap
Posted on 1/8/16 at 10:21 am to Bluefin
Posted on 1/8/16 at 10:21 am to Bluefin
What ever caused us to lose ours? When and how did settlers and later early Americans stop speaking with an accent? Or START speaking with an American one?
Posted on 1/8/16 at 10:22 am to HashSlingingSlasher
Why do people in other former British Colonies (i.e., Australia and South Africa) sound so much more British than Americans and Canadians?
Posted on 1/8/16 at 10:22 am to HashSlingingSlasher
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why do british people speak so weird by HashSlingingSlasher
Cause their grills are jacked up
Posted on 1/8/16 at 10:23 am to HashSlingingSlasher
I'll go ahead and nerd this thread up.
Academic consensus is that the North American accents more closely resemble pre-Industrial Revolution English accent. In other words, someone without a clear regional American accent probably speaks more like an Englishman from 500 years ago than the Queen does today. Some say the best preserved English accents of old are in Appalachia or in those islands off of Virginia.
This is because during the Industrial Revolution, there was a lot of "new money" people that were eager to be viewed/respected as rich. Thus, the new upper class (new money & old) began to drop their R's to sound more sophisticated.
Not wanting to be left out, the lower classes also followed and the English accent as we know it today was born.
In the US's major eastern port cities, you see signs of adoption through constant interaction with our British cousins.
Academic consensus is that the North American accents more closely resemble pre-Industrial Revolution English accent. In other words, someone without a clear regional American accent probably speaks more like an Englishman from 500 years ago than the Queen does today. Some say the best preserved English accents of old are in Appalachia or in those islands off of Virginia.
This is because during the Industrial Revolution, there was a lot of "new money" people that were eager to be viewed/respected as rich. Thus, the new upper class (new money & old) began to drop their R's to sound more sophisticated.
Not wanting to be left out, the lower classes also followed and the English accent as we know it today was born.
In the US's major eastern port cities, you see signs of adoption through constant interaction with our British cousins.
This post was edited on 1/8/16 at 10:28 am
Posted on 1/8/16 at 10:23 am to HashSlingingSlasher
Because God created all of the different languages at the Tower of Babel and dispersed everyone across land.
Posted on 1/8/16 at 10:23 am to HashSlingingSlasher
They can't say aluminum
Posted on 1/8/16 at 10:23 am to LSU alum wannabe
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What ever caused us to lose ours? When and how did settlers and later early Americans stop speaking with an accent? Or START speaking with an American one?
Actually, we sound today like what the British sounded like in the 17th and 18th century. It was during the 19th century that the British accent changed as it became fashionable to talk that way. People even took lessons to learn how to speak that way. So it was the British that changed, not the Americans.
Posted on 1/8/16 at 10:24 am to HashSlingingSlasher
quote:
why do british people speak so weird
do they know how to speak English correctly?
Posted on 1/8/16 at 10:25 am to HashSlingingSlasher
quote:Never argue with a fool; onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. —Mark Twain
why do british people speak so weird
do they know how to speak English correctly?
This post was edited on 1/8/16 at 10:28 am
Posted on 1/8/16 at 10:25 am to HashSlingingSlasher
Bollocks. Piss off you git.
Posted on 1/8/16 at 10:25 am to Swoopin
quote:
I'll go ahead and nerd this thread up.
You beat me to it and did a much better job.
Posted on 1/8/16 at 10:25 am to Swoopin
quote:
This is because during the Industrial Revolution, there was a lot of "new money" people that were eager to be viewed/respected as rich. Thus, the new upper class (new money & old) began to drop their R's to sound more sophisticated.
Are you referring to the "trans Atlantic" accent?
Posted on 1/8/16 at 10:26 am to LeonPhelps
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Actually, we sound today like what the British sounded like in the 17th and 18th century. It was during the 19th century that the British accent changed as it became fashionable to talk that way. People even took lessons to learn how to speak that way. So it was the British that changed, not the Americans.
When you say "we", do you mean those of a southern persuasion and twang?
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