Pulptastic,
b3nsn0w,
@b3nsn0w@pricefield.org avatar

i’m no expert in vexillology but even i can tell that that’s a c- at best

threelonmusketeers,

They’re getting a new one! youtu.be/lFwwo0W5Ugg

kamen,

In order of appearance: wildcard, simplified, traditional.

Soggy,

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.

kamen,

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”).

Soggy,

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”.

pewgar_seemsimandroid,

i pick English canada always

DragonTypeWyvern,

American with “eh” it is.

creditCrazy,
@creditCrazy@lemmy.world avatar

It’s amariceh

FurbiesAndBeans,

Nah more like American-eh

Buddahriffic,

It’s UK spelling. Colour instead of color, etc.

ILikeBoobies,

Depends where you are, we do have an accent but it’s really hard to find people with it now

PraiseTheSoup,

Really? Because everyone on Trailer Park Boys and Letterkenny has it. And I say that as a northern Minnesotan.

ILikeBoobies, (edited )

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

Moneo,

Don’t forget about the ‘sorry’ key.

pewgar_seemsimandroid,

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

_TheThunderWolf_,

i use them like this: cookies are chewy, biscuits are crunchy

robocall,
@robocall@lemmy.world avatar

British - fancy

America - normal

Australia - wildcard

agent_flounder, (edited )
@agent_flounder@lemmy.world avatar

America - which one of Southern (various), U.P., Massachusetts, Atlantic, valley girl, NYC (various) Minnesota, Philly, Chicago, … ?

nxdefiant,

America should be Eevee, because there are so many opportunities for variation.

mholiv,

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.

rambaroo,

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.

nxdefiant,

From what I can tell there’s 30-40 each and about 160 world wide. Crazy!

slackassassin, (edited )

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.

KrokanteBamischijf, (edited )

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 @slackassassin made an excellent list.

Deceptichum,
@Deceptichum@kbin.social avatar

Youse have two accents, American and Southern.

Britain has a new accent every 20cm.

slackassassin,

There’s a dozen Southern accents alone.

FartsWithAnAccent,
@FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world avatar

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!

slackassassin,

That’s not even counting the farts!

FartsWithAnAccent,
@FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world avatar

Oh, they’re beyond number.

DarkMessiah,

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.

agent_flounder,
@agent_flounder@lemmy.world avatar

Hell even different NYC accents: Queens, Brooklyn, …

Riven,
@Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Don’t forget the jersey one.

rambaroo, (edited )

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.

ECB,

America actually has very little geographic variation in accents.

In the UK, for instance, it can change drastically from village to village.

rambaroo,

It’s funny when people confidently make shit up on the Internet

nxdefiant,

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.

NathanUp,
@NathanUp@lemmy.ml avatar

Imo Indian English should be normal as it’s spoken by more people.

Nalivai,

USdefaultism of this post should be used in The International Bureau of Weights and Measures as the metrics for all other USdefaultisms.

Uncle_Bagel,

333 million Americans, 67 million Brits, 26 million Australians.

Nalivai,

1.4 billion Indians. So what?

JudahBenHur,

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.

Aceticon,

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.

JudahBenHur,

sorry, I re-read your post this morning, I missed when you said “official languages” for some reason. I take your point

JudahBenHur,

this post is about native accents. choose an accent (from native accents), normal, fancy or wildcard.

fl42v,

I’d mix everything just for kicks :)

RoyaltyInTraining,
@RoyaltyInTraining@lemmy.world avatar

I’m not even aware of what my accent sounds like. Probably a weird amalgamation of everything.

drathvedro, (edited )

Oi cunt!

The bogan talk fits my gopnik soul like cat’s pyjamas

whofearsthenight,

American, have considered immigrating just for the ability to use this phrase on the reg.

Maggoty,

Ooooo, which is which!

The_Picard_Maneuver,
@The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website avatar

I’ll never tell

Maggoty,

That’s just evil. Anyways, I made popcorn.

Turious,

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.

The_Picard_Maneuver,
@The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website avatar

It’s always so interesting to hear surprise accents.

ininewcrow,
@ininewcrow@lemmy.ca avatar

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.

ininewcrow,
@ininewcrow@lemmy.ca avatar

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?

samus12345,
@samus12345@lemmy.world avatar

Have you seen Reservation Dogs? I’ve heard that Willie Jack has a Canadian Native accent, is that the case?

ininewcrow,
@ininewcrow@lemmy.ca avatar
The_Picard_Maneuver,
@The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website avatar
RojoSanIchiban,
smeg,

But you already said American

funkless_eck,

well they did have their own language until we fucked them out of it

ininewcrow,
@ininewcrow@lemmy.ca avatar

Hiddy-ho there you drunken bastard

FartsWithAnAccent,
@FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world avatar

They’re a lumberjack and that’s ok!

ininewcrow,
@ininewcrow@lemmy.ca avatar

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

zyratoxx,
@zyratoxx@lemm.ee avatar

Why choose when you can just randomly mix them

Snowplow8861,

Just choose Australian. Tbh we don’t care how you say it just be loud.

ElBarto,
@ElBarto@sh.itjust.works avatar

Just call them prawns, that’s all we ask.

reverendsteveii,

*scrimps

zyratoxx,
@zyratoxx@lemm.ee avatar

Oh boi, I’m too introverted to ever be loud

Think of it more as a whisper, just loud enough to be heard :')

TheEighthDoctor,

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.

CaptFeather,

Wait how does that work?

Pipoca,

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.

sarsoar,

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: peabodyawards.com/nytimesdialectquiz/

Another random one from buzzfeed: www.buzzfeed.com/andrewziegler/dialect-quiz

And babbel: www.babbel.com/en/magazine/american-accent-quiz

Or just search for dialect quiz.

samus12345, (edited )
@samus12345@lemmy.world avatar

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.

Noodle07,

Haha you’ll never take my French accent away!

wkk,

By trying to get rid of it I accidentally took the German accent, not sure how that works

Noodle07,

Eh I’m not even trying, I try to articulate more but it’s hard, also everyone tells me it’s great so 🤷

TotallyNotSpez, (edited )

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. ^^

dojan,
@dojan@lemmy.world avatar

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.

TotallyNotSpez,

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.

SubArcticTundra,
@SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml avatar

Are they bad singers?

dojan,
@dojan@lemmy.world avatar

Hahaha. I love that.

Mandy,

You mixed up America and UK, who saysays an American accent is ever fancy lol

Wilzax,

US is normal

UK is fancy

Aussie is wildcard

Lodespawn,

Pretty sure you’ve got Aussie and US arse about.

sukhmel,

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.

jol,

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”.

ChaoticNeutralCzech,

Also, you never considered pronouncing gif as “jiff” because your native language (German), where you heard it first, has no soft G.

Wilzax,

pronouncing it as “yiff”

LordOfLocksley,

UK is traditional

US is simplified

Aus is wildcard

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