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> from another perspective, using one's native accent on TV when they are perfectly capable of speaking in a more standard accent is arguably more supremacist t

• jhanschoo 6y ago
  You are right to criticize me. I think that statement was too strong, and should be weakened to > using one's native accent on TV for certain programs when they are perfectly capable of speaking in a more standard accent Thankfully, you are asking only for me to show that it is possible. If: * You are as fluent in a standard accent and dialect as in your local accent and dialect * You know that using your local accent and dialect can cause intelligibility problems with a far greater part of your audience than using a standard accent and dialect * You are communicating something to your audience * You have an ethical duty to communicate to as much of your audience as possible * You don't care that you may not be communicating the important information because your audience doesn't understand your accent well * You are aware of the above * And consequently choose to use your native accent, with all other things being equal Then it is supremacist, because you favor a smaller group of your audience that understands your accent when there is an ethical duty to communicate to as much of your audience as possible. Of course, much of what appears on TV is rarely important, but for business reasons you already see this: news tends to use a more standard accent for their audience and more informal programs have more diversity (and often in the latter the accents are an important aspect of what is being communicated as the utterances they are a vehicle for).