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lord-squiggletits · 2 months ago

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Been reading a book about the development of the English language that includes chapters related to English languages/dialects and their impact with class. Thinking about how much people freaked out and made it a meme/joke that Prime Wars Overlord had a US Southern/"cowboy" accent. About 🤏 this close to deciding to write all of my stories going forward with all characters speaking Texas-accented English as the default instead of Standard English going forward bc I'm annoyed about my accent family being treated like a joke and/or used as a sign that horrible things deserve to happen to them

#squiggposting #discourse #i am a little bit salty. maybe more than a little bit #i'm also training in voiceover rn and the accent standardization there annoys the fuck out of me #gotta speak in Generic American Accent or Proper British English or else your accent is designated some sort of caricature or stereotype #also to be clear i don' mean writin' accents phonetically lahk this #just them using accented regionalisms and slang and ways of speaking and whatnot #i'm getting sick and tired of accent based classism honestly sjdklfsk #and also honestly as a hobbyist linguist of sorts i think doing a formal study into the different kinds of accents here #beyond just intrinsic knowledge as a native would be really cool #anyways every character in my stories from random hicks to optimus fucking prime himself is going to use y'all and other regionalisms #and it's not going to be a joke or to show lower class-ness or w/e #i might even throw in some texas german too if i can find substantial enough resources in it

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