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A bit OT but the idea of no accent is kind of funny. My kid goes to an international school in Thailand. I hear my kid's classmates speak English with Australia
by geomark 9y ago
A bit OT but the idea of no accent is kind of funny. My kid goes to an international school in Thailand. I hear my kid's classmates speak English with Australian, British, Canadian and northeastern American accents plus an accent we call "international school accent". I'm from California and of course I think I don't have an accent. Same as those kids and their parents. Yet I have a hard time understanding some of them.
- vacri 9y agoWell, you can't literally have no accent. I think that the GP means that there is no 'tell' that the people are eastern european when they speak. In the UK itself, it's estimated that there's a different regional accent every 25 miles or so.
- pbhjpbhj 9y agoOccasionally I manage to do a "Henry Higgins" and detect a main accent and sub-accent; there are a lot of hints in dialect though, like what you call a bread roll ...