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I start to talk with an accent when I'm around people speaking in accent, but it only happens under the influence of alcohol. Always puzzled me, not like I'm do
by type0 5y ago
I start to talk with an accent when I'm around people speaking in accent, but it only happens under the influence of alcohol. Always puzzled me, not like I'm doing it deliberately, almost becomes a sort of shtick.
- vmception 5y agoI skip syllables for brevity after a little alcohol and people think I’m Bri’ish
- Moodles 5y agoWe Brits either ignore t’s or actually pronounce them as tee, whereas for Yankees it comes out as a dee for some reason. I did actually read somewhere that linguists think the British/American accent before America was a separate colony was most likely more similar to an American accent, so actually it was the Brits who diverged their accent.
- dboreham 5y agoThere are also today many accents and dialects in Britain. To my ear some US accents sound similar to Bristol and some Scottish accents but not at all like an English RP or London accents.
- vmception 5y agoI read that too, I think further research should look at the dutch because many dutch speaking English sound very American and their colony New Amsterdam was in what is now America even earlier.
- dkdbejwi383 5y agoIt’s more like they both divulged from a common ancestor, and are both equally different and alike. See also: humans didn’t diverge from chimpanzees, but both from a common ancestor.
- Moodles 5y agoOk? THat's probably somewhat accurate as accents are always changing, but I'm literally just citing what I read from some actual linguists.
- airhead969 5y agoI go from sounding like an average Londoner to speaking in Received Pronunciation. The only problem is I'm American and not in London. I have no idea how that happened.
- vmception 5y agoSame, I’m American in USA I just tell people I travel alot and my friends English from all over the world rubbed off on me. I would actually say that for a longer time I have consciously avoided regional slang, as American colloquial English is not usually any close to academic English and it is very easy not to notice. But Europeans have no clue what you’re saying if you are simultaneously slurring words, completely altering sentence structure, using idioms, and complete slang. So maybe it just gravitates towards an enunciated and generic international form of English? Skip a syllable and there it is.
- airhead969 5y agoMaybe we should form a band and call it: The Fake British Accents ? My paternal grandmother was from Cape Cod; lived in Britain, Germany, and the Philippines; and ended-up in San Jose, CA with a New Englander-British (no pun intended) accent. My dad had somewhat of a latent British accent from eating gristle and corporal punishment at an all-boys English boarding school. Two Norwegian brothers: one was my roommate, had lived in the US for 10 years, and always spoke English like he was drunk and still working on the language; the other had never been to the States before but sounded like he lived in the US for 90% of his life. I'm wondering if it's language speaking/interpretation plasticity skill are more innate to the individual. (I'm probably more like the first brother and sound like a rube in every language.)
- antihero 5y agoI'm British but when I am drunk people think I'm Australian.