#standard american english accent

[nostalgia-tblr]

I feel like anyone who's about to embark on attempting to type out a character's accent phoentically (at least as well as one can with English) should probably stop for a moment before they get going and ask themselves, "How would I, myself, feel about a fic where the one character who sounds like me had their speech written out like this and every other character just got their dialogue left in standard spelling?" I feel like a lot of people would tone it down a bit, at least, if they'd done that thought experiment first.

(Anyone who answered "but I don't have an accent!" isn't allowed to write out anyone else's accent, ever. This rule may seem harsh but you need it. Really, you do. Because you've never had anyone treat your accent as abnormal or comical or wrong, so you really don't know what you're inflicting on others here.)

[essskel]

the way that the american and British accents of the witcher games english dub are almost completely arbitrary between characters and nationalities and don’t make sense if you try to logic it out is really funny and i’m not even mad about it because Triss sounds like she’s from Ohio and that tracks. I say this as a midwesterner

[xietydhd]

This might be niche, but there is nothing quite like the pain of hearing someone talk about your dedicated field of study and get the facts so, so, so wrong,,, like please,,,,you arent right at all,,,,please no,,,you just regurgitated something you read somewhere on the internet and its not right

[thewiglesswonder]

🔥 tfa Blitzwing

My hot take is that the actual fucking German language of the Indo-European language family does not exist on Cybertron or anywhere else except Earth. Accents are arbitrary at worst and correlated with Cybertronian colonies and cities at best and I am so fucking sick of seeing people pepper actual German into his dialogue like he's a native speaker.

This take brought to you hot from the fires of my irrational yet blazing rage.

[lord-squiggletits]

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

[lipstickontheglass1985]

might get eaten for this but honestly i find it kind of suprising how similar in general british vs american english actually are to each other? like yeah sure the accents can be very distinct depending on the specific region and there are some words which differ completely depending on the variant (like i dunno lift vs elevator pavement vs sidewalk etc) and a bunch of slang terms which only occure in one of the variants (though, again, seems like they are more region dependent rather than american vs british english thing) but as a whole its like. if you are, say, a child who has been taught english by a bunch of purists who are insistent on only teaching the british variant as correct, and then once you grow up enough for unrestricted internet access go online onto english speaking spaces which are predominately american, you won't really struggle with understanding them if your "british" english was alright in the first place. like there is a difference but its far from enough to cause any sort of gap in comprehension. and i find this personally fascinating cause supposedly those two variants have been developing an ocean apart from each other for like three centuries

[radlearning]

learning english by yourself will give you the most fucked up accent. i say half the words in a british accent the other half like a valley girl and if i ever say "oh no" you can read it as "oh naur" cause i got that from h2o just add water

[starlightomatic]

Can I ask a dumb goyim question? What's the joke behind the generator? Is it that goyim (tbh, no idea if I'm using that word correctly) constantly misspell it, or that there are a bunch of "correct" spellings that depend on who you ask?

Regardless, happy Upcoming Holiday That I Don't Know How To Spell!

It's cause even Jews are not agreed on how to spell it! In English-speaking contexts, the two common spellings are Hanukkah and Chanukah (with some slightly different cultural connotations about the speaker, but that's not really discussed), but people get confused about which one is "correct" and which doubled letters the first one has, and often just kinda create their own new mashups, like Hannukah and Chanukkah. So it's taking that and running with it.

Truth is it doesn't really matter since no transliteration can really capture the original language accurately (unless you have a standardized transliteration scheme, like romaji for Japanese).

[shitty-check-please-aus]

the library doesn’t have the audiobook of the 13th book in the series I’ve been listening to, so I’m reading the ebook version instead, and I’m learning that I’m very bad at guessing spellings of words based on pronunciation alone

[mishkakagehishka]

Hmmm. Sick of my accent again.

[captain-mozzarella]

I think it's funny that I can speak English with a norwegian accent, Norwegian with an English accent. But I cannot speak English with an Italian accent, instead I can speak Italian with an American accent.

[freddieandersen]

thanks to that post I’m now playing all my hozier lps at 45rpm and some of the songs gain new dimensions when you can imagine Dolly in them

[moinsbienquekaworu]

Reding through the accent post tags and apparently Ohio has the most "neutral" American accent? I said East Coast cause prior to the like. 60s or whatever radio and tv casters were trained to speak with a midatlantic accent, which is an accent thats a mix between British and American English

Anyway. Yes even Americans have an accent is the point im getting at here!

Love you! Have a lovely rest of your day!!

I know! It's wild to me that a percentage of people are native americans and don't personally think they have an accent because english is one of the most obvious languages where you always have an accent! I'm not a language expert and there probably are other languages like that but english just doesn't seem to have a Standard because even if you ignore the small regional differences then you still have american vs british going on!

French has a Standard, and you can talk all day about what that says and why this accent is standard and classism and whatnot, but there is one Recognised Accent that is the one taught to learners as the Standard and the Default, and whether you have an accent or not depends on how much your personal accent is like that standard (a friend told me the standard is the accent of Tours and I believe her?)

But in english there are at least two standards! Like learners are either taught british english or american english but they're two different varieties with attached accents. And in those two there's the standard american, the southern american, the standard british, cockney, etc etc whatever, plus everything else like the aussie accent that people always ignore. But there's two standards! So to me it's completely bewildering because you can evaluate how much of an accent you have based on one of these standards but there's two of them! Even if you're american and you rarely hear anything but american accents you have to be Aware of the other standards for the language!

I am incapable of conceiving a worldview in which a native english speaker doesn't think they have an accent, is the conclusion.

[tutubola-moved-on]

headcanon time (actually this is all from months ago but pretend it's not)

thinking back to the farm dialect posts from like years ago lol wouldnt it be cute if they went around the human world speaking like idk fucking new york english (since they're basically in new york) but then when they go home and it's just them they switch back to their actual dialect and it's like the unmatched feeling of going home after spending the whole day speaking in a foreign language and finally being able to speak your language

[the-busy-ghost]

No disrespect to the particular English accent that birthed this atrocity, we all have our own sins to atone for, but as a Scot I’m tempted to accuse google of perpetrating a hate crime by describing this monstrous mispronunciation as the correct “British” one

[roboromantic]

I was wondering if saying "liable to" instead of "likely to" was a Southern/Appalachian thing since I've always said "liable" with 2 syllables exclusively in that context

it looks like 1) it's not and 2) other people from outside the South pronounce it with two syllables in this context as well, which is fascinating to me

what IS very Southern is the intense monopthongization that happens when I say it that way, lmao