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[–] 3 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

Wtf is a British accent, you'll find no other country in the world with more accents

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  • [–] 5 points 3 hours ago*

    Americans have really shitty ears. Any white person who sounds anywhere between "Chimney Sweep in Mary Poppins" and "King George in Hamilton" is automatically classified as British.

    And yes, I know both of those characters are originally portrayed by American performers.

    Black, Indian, and Asian people with a British accent make our brains explode.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 hours ago

    Maybe just Traditional English is their genes...

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  • [–] 2 points 6 hours ago

    And she probably got it from peppa pig.

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  • [–] 14 points 11 hours ago (12 children)

    And the rest of the world subjected to American accents in TV and movies.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 hour ago

    I have an amalgamated accent, like most terminally online people do.

    It's clearly Germanic based, but it's neither a Danish, German, Dutch or Swedish accent. It's just international with Germanic roots.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 hours ago (9 children)

    People are weird about accents. I only wish there was more variety in American accents, if anything. Some of them are charming.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 hours ago* (2 children)

    New York is distinctly different from Boston, is distinctly different from Northern Maine, and very different from Pennsylvania. Then we've got southern drawl, white trash, we've got Minnesotian, midwest, east coast, west coast, western, Texan...

    At least, as far as the accents that we put in movies and TV and media that we send abroad.

    Plus the media also has one universal accent that covers all Indigenous Americans. Black actors get two extra accent options, "inner city" and "French immigrant".

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  • [–] 1 point 2 hours ago (1 child)

    A lot of those are great! And yes, it sounds like a lot of variety until you look at how many more distinct accents the UK packs into an area a fraction of the size.

    My own accent comes pretty much out of Seattle and it's always struck me as terribly boring and flat, very news anchor-y. I like the ones that have distinctiveness above all - British, American, or otherwise.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 hours ago (5 children)

    We might cone up with something worse than American southern accents.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

    I grew up in Wisconsin and never heard bag-le. We say bay-gil. But the NW part of the state is a bit unique and basically MN.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 hours ago

    Is this like carcinization for accents?

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    [–] 99 points 1 day ago (12 children)

    Or, and hear me out, the fake British accent never sounded British in the first place. And the adults in the story just can't tell accents apart?

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  • [–] 3 points 7 hours ago* (2 children)

    Or, and hear me out, it's fake. Have you ever met one parent of a kindergartener, let alone a whole class of kindergarteners walking to school without their parents? Yeah me neither.

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    [–] 0 points 7 hours ago (4 children)

    Toddlers walking to daycare without supervision?

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  • [–] 8 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

    There's a crossing guard with an accent.

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  • [–] -1 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

    And how did they get to the crossing guard? Sounds like they walked alone.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 hours ago* (1 child)

    I don't think it's reasonable to assume that toddlers get to walk alone anywhere. And from context, this is the USA, so my assumption is that the parents drive the kids to daycare where the teachers likely take the children on walks, and during those excursions they regularly meet an elderly crossing guard with an accent.

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  • [–] 108 points 1 day ago

    That's cute. It's funny how being nice and caring for kids can have a lasting effect on them

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