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This poll is a perfect example of rhoticity in English. Rhotic accents pronounce the 'r' at the ends of words, while non-rhotic accents don't (rhoticity also involves the pronunciation of 'r' in the middle of words too so it's more complicated - but that's not relevant in this example). Rhotic English speaking accents worldwide are the majority, that's why the poll result is a landslide. The only English speaking country that has almost zero rhoticity is Australia - even England retains some regional rhoticity.
There's also the question of vowel merger in the above question. Some non-rhotic regions would pronounce the vowels in 'flaw' and 'floor' differently (for example, some non-rhotic southern U.S. accents where the homophones would be flow/floor). To answer yes in the above poll, would require a non-rhotic regional accent with the hoarse/horse merger AND the caught/court merger, which would make the choice of 'no' in the above poll even more likely.
#linguistics#regional accents#english speaking accents#rhoticity#vowel merger#no i was not a linguistics major#but it was required for the degree that i do have
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I remember discussing Tintin casting choices with a friend from Germany and remarked how it was odd he often has an English accent in adaptations rather than a Belgian one, and my friend just replied "that's because Tintin gives incredibly strong English boy energy (derogatory)"
Here in the UK there's a lot of weird classism tied into accents. Today accent diversity and representation in broadcasting is actively pursued but in Tintin's time there certainly was a preferred accent to have.
imagine this exchange happens between pages 28-29 in The Crab with the Golden Claws
#tintin#adventures of tintin#comic#captain haddock#archibald haddock#snowy#milou#fanart#the crab with the golden claws#i remember tintin crafting a trumpet to communicate with an elephant#and he remarks he must get the accent correct#very odd scenario but it shows he would be a stickler for that sort of thing#i also have to say accents do not indicate how smart someone is#a lot of pundits use an english accent to sound more credible#but i have to say there are a lot of fucking idiots here#me included#thank you 2011 film for validating my scottish haddock headcanon#any french speakers who have read to this point i wonder what your hcs are for his french speaking accent
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felix joining hyunjin's instagram live // november 24th, 2024
hyunjin trying to remember the word for quesadilla with felix's help + hyunjin being suddenly rizzed by the australian accent ♡
#hyunlix#hyunjin#felix#stray kids#skz#hyunlix*#bystay#skzco#staydaily#hyunlixsource#dancerachasource#hyunjinsource#mine*#gifs*#5+#the little “oh~ felix!” has been living in my head RENT FREE#the way he's suddenly SO endeared by hearing him speak in an australian accent makes me wanna cartwheel around my house#it's been 7 years and felix still catches hyunjin off guard 😫#also no one ever talks about how hyunjin ALSO speaks english in an australian accent enough#also big thank you for hwgflx on twitter for the translation!!!!
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Captain Walrus Cookie
AYE! Make way for the guard dog of Choco Mud Town, Captain Walrus Cookie! He kept the peace in the town for 2 decades, chasing off dangerous characters for the often neglected edge of the republic with his motley crew for no more than a few free drinks at the pub. Even so, he rarely ever got physically violent with troublemakers. More relied on careful wording and dominating size to intimidate those causing problems. Always believing words carry more weight than a punch.
#cookie run kingdom#cookie run#crk#cookie oc#crk oc#fan cookie#cookie run oc#captain caviar cookie#Captain Walrus Cookie#Leopard seal cookie#My main inspos for him are both Vander from Arcane and North from ROTG#I love those two sm#Which is also why he speaks in slightly off english#thick Russian accent~#oh yeah cavi also knew him
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if this post reaches 500 notes, i will start a podcast where i will talk about my fictional crushes in a totally unhinged manner, like britanny broski talks about masked men, traumadump without anyone asking for it, and about various topics that make my serotonin levels go brrr (mostly about art, history/culture and queer stuff), video essay-ish-style, but executed in a worst way possible
#it’s a joke#i would ruin my digital footprint even more#i have a horrible thick accent when speaking in english anyway#and i’m pretty self-conscious about it#not to mention voice dysphoria#possibly neurodivergent#meme#text post#podcast#blue eye samurai#bes#hades game#hades 2 game#mizu#taigen#akemi#chaos hades#moros hades 2#chaos hades 2#art#history#culture#queer studies#lgbtqia#gsrm#queer#bisexual#bi#transgender#nonbinary
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Omg cringe !!! (I make a bloodysuit fan child..)

..iykyk - don’t worry, she was born out of the sky
#tf2#team fortress 2#tf2 oc#team fortress 2 oc#bloody suit#Lorette#sniperspy#tf2 medic#tf2 heavy#kinda#tf2 Spy#tf2 Sniper#she can also speak French fluent#but has a Aussie accent in English
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y'know... for a setting that places so much importance in Language and does so many ice cool things playing with it (Correspondence/Discordance, Parabola & Irem, etc) i think there's a bit of a missed opportunity when it comes to the terms and words people use in their day to day life... like for example:
do you think radical revolutionaries would avoid words like "enlightening" in their vocabulary and flip them for LON-appropriate counterparts to signal their beliefs?
like substituting the word "light" with "blight". lol
similarly, pet names relating to light like "sunshine" kinda have a whole extra flavour tied to them, leaning into nostalgia, melancholy and/or danger depending on the people using it. irony, even
"honey" as a pet name also has extra connotations now and might actually bother some people instead due to the association with the drug...
do you think SMEN, taboo as it is, and seeking being a recognizable phenomenon even to the common londoner, would spawn swear words and insults? (imagine the weight of telling someone to Go Seek or Fall Down a Well)
the word "well" itself. well as an adverb, interjection, adjective. just. think about it. think about what it represents. idk something is happening to this word for sure
#disclaimer that am still solidly in the beginning of the railway so idk if newer writing has stuff like this#granted fallen london is young enough that it makes sense for these kinds of developments to not have happened in a large scale yet#(in british english that is)#neon future though? yeah baby communication is gonna be shaped by its setting!! so many fun possibilities so much food for thought#am sure gtfo becomes gstn.#rambling sparked from wondering abt the intricacies of comparing ur beloved to the eldritch being in space who wants you deleted. or smth#i like giving my ocs quirks relating to language so. rei has a recurrent theme of speech & pronunciation issues in general#before being devoured the coffin incident left them with neurological damage too and it used to take extra effort for them to say things#cinthe uses second languages (specially french) to put an extra dissociative distance between herself and certain words/thoughts#zé speaks english nearly perfectly but he uses portuguese any moment he can and even exaggerates his accent sometimes#i think im giving him the revolutionary terms thing too once he gets more involved with the neath. hes the kinda guy to make statements :3c#fallen london#chainrambles
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i don't have an angel and a devil on my shoulder, i have Laszlo and Lestat, and they are both giving me terrible but impressively bitchy advice
#and they both have cool accents that get stuck in my head and prevent me from speaking english like a normal human being#(not like i was very good at that before but yk)#what we do in the shadows#wwdits#laszlo cravensworth#interview with the vampire#lestat de lioncourt#vampire#✩‧₊˚
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I get asked alot where I'm from bc I don't actually have an Irish accent and it always leads to the awkward moment after bc people just dont believe me when i say "im from Ireland i grew up in county [redated]" so I've started turning the question around on people asking them where they think I'm from and it's been pretty fun in particular today when I had two workmen around at the same time one saying I sounded "vaguely American" while the other said I sounded "nuteral polite english"
#people usually find out i have a english mother and chalk it up to her#but if you heard my mother speak youd know we have different accents#and my 4 siblings (2 younger 2 older) all have irish accents which we have the same mother#surely she couldn't target the accent at me#anyway my best guess is that its something to do with the autism/adhd/dyslexia combo#but I can't find anything online to support that theory
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Black Hat things I love:
He's simultaneously running a secret shadow organization and is a household name in the business of being a dastardly bastard
He's so spooky mysterious but he puts himself in all the commercials and starts them off like "HI IT'S ME. BLACK HAT"
There's so many fucking paintings of himself. Everywhere. He has to have done at least a few of them himself. He can absolutely see through any and all of them when he wants. He's hiding in one and laughing because nobody can find him.
He laughs too hard and does shit like this


Does he have a cockney accent, or do cockney speakers actually have a Black Hat accent? I don't think his first language is Human. It's very funny to me if while he was meandering through human languages he got to English and went "THAT one. I'm going to speak with THAT accent."
2 hat motherfucker
The teeth that stick out a lil bit
He go >:3
#black hat#villainous#villanos#villainous black hat#yes i know it's not a real or accurate cockney accent but the point is when he speaks english he's supposed to sound bri'ish#and like. victorian ass clothes
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Funky little Personal Stylist!Ace
He's SUCH a mean girl
#ace markey#drdt#drdt spoilers#danganronpa despair time#do not ask me what sort of accent he's supposed to have#i just kept thinking about how gyaru speak gets transliterated in English and went with it#also snuck a tiny rebel!teruko there#i don't have a plot for this au i'm just swapping characters based on vibes#talent swap au
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i haven't been drawing as much because art block and forgetting... but here's some doodles and other stuff
drag oj design (madam vesper!!!) by my friend what-stasis on tumblr/what_stasis on twitter
#juice art#osc#inanimate insanity#inanimate insanity fanart#paper ii#ii paper#oj ii#ii oj#payjay#payjay ii#ii payjay#taco ii#ii taco#whats the ship name for taco x oj i only know it as english breakfast#english breakfast ii#taco x oj#tacojay ii#??#pickle ii#ii pickle#dark igia#paperdark igia#paper igia#made those drawings before it was cancelled... sigh...#i need to draw paper in his 30s cause now ive got him in his 40s (gijinka with the blue sweater vest)#sweater vests fit paper so well... i see them a lot in gijinkas of him#and oj is obviously The Guy In A Suit. also in his 40s#pickle and oj both speak french now ive decided#oj has a côte d'ivoire accent and pickle has a québécois + franco-ontarien accent (that kind where it's sort of mixed)#cage is shitty on purpose
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You know what I need? I need Batman to be minding his own business, y'know just taking part in a league meeting or being forced to (urgh) socialize. And just in the corner of his eye see one of the batkids start doing something they know they shouldn't, presumably something incredibly dangerous seeing as he gave up on stopping them from hanging from chandeliers and going out as vigilante children. .
And I need him to just suddenly having the thickest new jersey accent the other heroes have ever heard as he fusses over them when they do get hurt.
#batman#dc#bruce wayne#dcu#robin#batkids#batdad#we need to use the fact that gotham is in new jersey more#batfamily#let characters have their local accents dangit#but also let them use it for shenanigans#Dick purposely gets a thick romanian accent whenever someone is being an ass while he's civilian and pretends he doesn't speak english#even though everyone knows he can and has seen proof of it#Also let Bruce get a british accent when he scolds someone thanks to being raised by Alfred#Do you see my vision#do you#batman au#or is it headcanon
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There's something so nice about hearing different accents in the One Piece Live Action cast. I'm so used in seeing shows with a diverse cast but perfect voices, so having that variety is making me so happy
#my accent comes through so much when I speak english so I guess that's why I feel this way#One piece live action#opla#miss all sunday
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#lore dump#randall is able to read but hes kind of bad at it#since hes a smallfolk he wasnt given too many options education wise#he also used to speak a different tongue#he learned english bc he was forced to move into a different area though#he does still kinda have an accent though#anyways!!#gt#g/t#giant/tiny#sfw g/t#doodle#size difference#gt artist#my oc art#oc artist#my ocs#absolutely no clue what cursive is though#or how to read it#(just like me fr)#oc: randall#oc: jone
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Personal Dick Grayson headcanon of mine but, and bear with me here, Dick Grayson still has the sliiiiightest Romani accent when he speaks in English. Now what that would sound like I myself don’t know. But. And I say this as a bilingual that moved from her home country to live in US since I was 10 yrs old… I’ve assimilated the American accent EXTREMELY well. When I’m tired or annoyed/angry my accent can slip out a bit.
I just wanted to give that trait to Dick Grayson it brings me serotonin to think of him that way. Honestly, Dick having a second ID to protect would’ve trained it out of himself a looong time ago but in times of extreme emotion… mmm yes Romani Dick Grayson spice
#dick grayson#nightwing#10 pm thoughts#i’m English and Spanish bilingual and speak both perfectly sometimes the Latina comes out I can’t help it#i am 25 yrs old and still sometimes speak a little accented it’s spicy ok#headcanon
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