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I 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 h
by airhead969 5y ago
I 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.)