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| 24 Jul 2014 11:33 AM |
There are many accents in Britain. There's Scottish, Welsh, Irish, Essex, London, Newcastle, Liverpool, Birmingham, cockney, Manchester, etc.. |
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LolHatz
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| 24 Jul 2014 11:34 AM |
| Mostly referring to whichever accent it is that has trouble making sharp consonant phonemes. |
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Meteor36
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| 24 Jul 2014 11:35 AM |
| Which ever one you normally hear when people refer to British accents. Like watching people imitate them on TV in American shows and such. |
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| 24 Jul 2014 11:37 AM |
It's funny how NOBODY here actually talks like that though. Like that British woman in Friends or Tiara Gold from HSM3. |
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Pilaster
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| 24 Jul 2014 11:37 AM |
| this is applicable to literally any accent. |
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BlastB00M
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| 24 Jul 2014 11:38 AM |
| They probably mean BBC newscaster standard, if you know what i'm saying. |
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| 24 Jul 2014 11:38 AM |
this kind of british accent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQO0GEcgTFs |
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| 24 Jul 2014 11:41 AM |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua7nyAaf3pE |
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guvonCP
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| 24 Jul 2014 11:43 AM |
Newcastle is Jordi and Liverpool is scouse btw
Also there's Yorkshire
I'm from East Anglia/somewhat midlands so my accent is boring |
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| 24 Jul 2014 11:46 AM |
| All them British youtubers are really posh. |
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| 24 Jul 2014 11:49 AM |
@halty
Ah, it's the posh accent. When Americans say "British accent", they're really talking about Posh. |
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guvonCP
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| 24 Jul 2014 11:49 AM |
ikr
I go to a "posh" school but my accent is a mix of normal english and slang
The people my school aren't posh apart from one new guy who got bullied |
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| 24 Jul 2014 11:55 AM |
> I go to a "posh" school but my accent is a mix of normal english and slang
Lol I hope you know American English ain't normal. We got ours from you guys, then we screwed around with it and made a separate English language. |
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guvonCP
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| 24 Jul 2014 11:57 AM |
| I say things like "ain't" and use "don't" in the wrong place sometimes |
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| 24 Jul 2014 12:03 PM |
| Explain please. "Ain't" isn't even supposed to be a word. But we might as well make it one. |
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| 24 Jul 2014 12:06 PM |
There was this British TV show called "Some Girls". These are basically London accents: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHOKL3Nptpk&feature=youtu.be&t=21s |
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Spiteless
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| 24 Jul 2014 12:06 PM |
| they're all the same to me |
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| 24 Jul 2014 12:09 PM |
they're all the same to me [2]
Either I usually here the Posh accents, or they just all sound Posh. |
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| 24 Jul 2014 12:10 PM |
What about accents in the USA? Do they sound different to you guys or the same? |
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| 24 Jul 2014 12:15 PM |
people in the deep south say y'all and says pen and pin the same way indiana sounds like they are the nerd in the class california says duuuuuuuudeeee new york sounds rude no one understands each other |
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| 24 Jul 2014 12:16 PM |
Depends where you go. But I'm assuming what British people think is an "American" accent is just a northeast white person accent. It just sounds normal. Same as a British account, but without the voice being slightly raised and such. Examples:
- A doesn't sound like "ah" - Words like the word "name" aren't exaggerated.
British: Naame (when they talk, not how you spell it) American: Name. Done.
Many more examples I'm not listing |
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| 24 Jul 2014 12:17 PM |
| People in the south and especially Texas speak a lot different from the rest of the USA tbh. |
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