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LemmyKnowsBest, in Stroke also accepted

This woman tried so hard to stay with him till he died but she just couldn’t bear it any longer. Although she bailed from the old wrinkly prune before he died, implicitly breaking her contract, thankfully he still left her $5 million dollars and a 7 million house.

BrightHalo, (edited ) in Bruh
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My coworker with a see through partition between us who speaks so low it’s hard to hear him regularly when he is standing next to me

argentcorvid, (edited ) in It's like a trance
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Oh yeah, nothing like dissociating on the chair for 20 minutes with a sock in one hand and the other on one foot.

Damaskox, in You can choose normal, fancy, or wildcard.
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I think Finnish school teaches the American pronunciation.

In my case; western games further hammered that down between my ears.

lugal,

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

ADTJ,

In the UK, schools largely teach European French/Spanish/etc.

I wish more European countries would teach European (British) English.

SubArcticTundra,
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Teaching British English would certainly feel the most appropriate as it is the local variant

Damdy,

You can teach whatever, the kids are still going to get way more exposure to American accents than British from tv and movies.

Kusimulkku,

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.

Damaskox,
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When were you in school?

I think about the 2000-2011 time period (from 3rd grade to trade school).

Kusimulkku, (edited )

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.

Damaskox,
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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.

Kusimulkku,

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.

positiveWHAT, in Also likes food!

The triple in my area is travel, training and wine. I get depressed by how few seems interesting.

applebusch,

What are they training for, their sommelier world tour?

positiveWHAT,

Just in case: training is mainly exercise in my language.

vzq, in You can choose normal, fancy, or wildcard.

Ya call that an accent?

Kusimulkku,

Americans for some reason don’t like it when you say they speak with an accent. It’s pretty interesting.

Imgonnatrythis, in i hate it

Worse than

Dkarma, in Rust Lord squad for life

Strong Debbie delight vibes

willis936, in It's like a trance

Your NPC subroutine is taking a long time to load.

M500, in i hate it

I had this yesterday on my phone. The video was like half an inch wide and silent.

What’s the purpose of this? It also had some banner at the bottom, so I’m only have to use 30% of the screen to actually read the article.

The web has become such garbage.

Annoyed_Crabby, in You can choose normal, fancy, or wildcard.

No thanks. We non-native/native english speaker from South East Asia have our own accent.

Obi,
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Singapore goes “laaaaa”.

theostermanweekend, in It's like a trance

Hits close to home

PunnyName, in Bruh

Me standing in the subway station just trying to get to my 11pm job.

NumbersCanBeFun, in It's like a trance
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Ah, nothing like a good afternoon existential crisis to really set you up for a good nights sleep 😅

Exusia, in A fine addition to my collection
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“You can rest when the mobo fails.”

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