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rebellum · 1 year ago

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No yeah you're totally right, Americanisation isn't real and it's perfectly fine that all over the world regional accents and dialects are losing speakers because of it. (In America too! You guys are losing your own accents and are instead speaking in varieties considered to be more "standard American").

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americanization

when a british actor does an american accent everyone’s like “i didn’t even know they were british until they were on colbert.” but when americans do a british accent everyone’s like “they’re supposed to be from east cocksford but their glottal e’s are north dicksford. shameful.”

#like yeah actually it IS important we preserve varieties of english! and we acknowledge americanization!#look at that fucking word! it has a z in it! bc the official spelling of the word isnt americanisation!#i DO care about the varieties of languages only spoken in a 2km^2 area.#hey fun fact a lot of english language recognition in technology is based off of specifically just popular californian dialects and #british RP bc those are the 'standard english dialects' (barf)#ill admit though i only read the firet 2 or 3 paragraphs of what that person wrote and skimmed the rest. it was... a lot of words.

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