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If you learn a language from someone with a particular speech pattern, you'll adopt it too. That's fine, and normal. I don't think that's what the article is t

If you learn a language from someone with a particular speech pattern, you'll adopt it too. That's fine, and normal. I don't think that's what the article is talking about, though. These kids are adopting an affectation different from the way they learned the language. Your average American kid doesn't have much, if any, access to British media or people aside from a few popular shows they might pick up online. It's not a courtesy based on context.

ChrisMarshallNY 3y ago
I used to have a British accent, when I was a kid, but have lost it. I now have a really weird accent (or so I'm told), that involves bits of British, Southern, and New York.
radlad 3y ago
> Your average American kid doesn't have much, if any, access to British media or people aside from a few popular shows they might pick up online. You really think so? The internet is today's Great Melting Pot. "Popular shows" feels out of touch. TikTok? Instagram? Discord? When I was about 12 years old I stumbled on an internet community of hackers and programmers that was largely based out of Europe, and I still talk to them today. We often spoke over Ventrilo/TeamSpeak (today it would be Discord) and at times I would start to pick up their accents.
- zdragnar 3y ago
  Based on the sample of children I know (my nephews) yes. None of them are engaging in conversations on such a regular basis with Brits that they would change their speech pattern to do so, and the media they consume is overwhelmingly not affected either. That's not to say that they haven't ever heard a British, Scottish, Geordie or Irish accent; they definitely have not heard or used it enough to naturally inflect their speech in such a way. Pirating taskmaster and the occasional tiktok is about as close as it gets.
namdnay 3y ago
you're forgetting youtube - I have a very strong suspicion that videos recorded with a British voice do better than those with American voices.
watwut 3y ago
You will acquire accent different then you learned language with after being apposed to it a lot. Not perfectly, but you will "naturally" and without effort mimic it. also, British media are all around the internet.
kcb 3y ago
Lol. Peppa Pig has been extremely popular in the US for like a decade or more now. I know for sure my young niece and nephew will randomly throw out British phrases with accent because of this show. And now Bluey with Australian accents and phrases too.

ChrisMarshallNY 3y ago

I used to have a British accent, when I was a kid, but have lost it. I now have a really weird accent (or so I'm told), that involves bits of British, Southern, and New York.

radlad 3y ago

> Your average American kid doesn't have much, if any, access to British media or people aside from a few popular shows they might pick up online. You really think so? The internet is today's Great Melting Pot. "Popular shows" feels out of touch. TikTok? Instagram? Discord? When I was about 12 years old I stumbled on an internet community of hackers and programmers that was largely based out of Europe, and I still talk to them today. We often spoke over Ventrilo/TeamSpeak (today it would be Discord) and at times I would start to pick up their accents.

zdragnar 3y ago
Based on the sample of children I know (my nephews) yes. None of them are engaging in conversations on such a regular basis with Brits that they would change their speech pattern to do so, and the media they consume is overwhelmingly not affected either. That's not to say that they haven't ever heard a British, Scottish, Geordie or Irish accent; they definitely have not heard or used it enough to naturally inflect their speech in such a way. Pirating taskmaster and the occasional tiktok is about as close as it gets.

namdnay 3y ago

you're forgetting youtube - I have a very strong suspicion that videos recorded with a British voice do better than those with American voices.

watwut 3y ago

You will acquire accent different then you learned language with after being apposed to it a lot. Not perfectly, but you will "naturally" and without effort mimic it. also, British media are all around the internet.

kcb 3y ago

Lol. Peppa Pig has been extremely popular in the US for like a decade or more now. I know for sure my young niece and nephew will randomly throw out British phrases with accent because of this show. And now Bluey with Australian accents and phrases too.