3 ms·
> Do biritish people really talk that polite IRL all the time? No, no-one talks like that, and also "British people" don't really talk the same way even from o
by Gordonjcp 4y ago
> Do biritish people really talk that polite IRL all the time?
No, no-one talks like that, and also "British people" don't really talk the same way even from one town to the next. There's not really any such thing as a "British accent".
You know how different a New Englander talks from a Texan? That's how different someone from Glasgow sounds compared to someone from Edinburgh, or someone from Manchester compared to someone from Birmingham.
- happymellon 4y agoI would say the difference between West Country, Home Counties, North East and Glasgow is significantly higher than the difference between most US States. Although that's presumably because we have had thousands of years to develop dialects and the US didn't have very long until TV, radio, telephone started mashing dialects from regions together. I can tell the difference between New England and Florida but it isn't quite in the same league.
- Lio 4y agoAccents in the UK aren't even consistent in the same place. My wife and I have different accents and grew up in the same medium large sized town.
- chrisbaker98 4y agoAccents in the UK also have a strong class dimension. Middle class people often speak in a very different way to working class people from the same area.
- chrisbaker98 4y agoThe general pattern observed in linguistics is that accents/dialects/languages and language families have the greatest level of diversity in the area where they originated. E.g. Austronesian is a huge language family that covers an enormous geographic area including Hawaii, the Philippines, Indonesia and even as far as Madagascar, and it contains over 1,000 distinct languages divided into 9 subfamilies - and yet all but one of those subfamilies are found exclusively in Taiwan, where proto-Austronesian first emerged roughly 5000 years ago.