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bloodyarson · 2 years ago

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not to derail but i think the reason why american english is so easy to learn and to speak for a lot of people is exactly because correct enunciation doesn't matter one bit really. as long as you make a noise that has the right vowels and kinda similar consonants people will understand what you're saying 90% of the time. and so i think, other than imperialism of course, this is one of the reasons why english is everyone in the world's "common tongue" now. even with a really thick accent english is still understandable, way more than most other majorly spoken languages. i mean, just fucking take a listen to french! or don't actually unless you want your ears to start bleeding.

so yeah in conclusion i think the reason why english is the language everyone learns and communicates in is because of this specific lack of a need to properly pronounce things, making it so much easier than most other languages for non native speakers. :)

americans be like i’m looking at myself in the meer

#this is absolutely accurate #sometimes we make fun of ourselves for this kind of terrible enunciation with my wife #i think the last one is the best really the way could you becomes coodjyu and what you becomes wotchu #it's so funny #where do the dj and tch sounds come from!! it's a d and a t!!#anyway yeah to speak english you can literally just mumble something that kinda sounds like a word and ppl will get it most of the time #also on a totally different subject i FUCKING HATE french #especially french spoken with an actual french accent #quebecois french is kinda bearable but I wouldn't say i like it #but french french makes me want to commit murder as soon as i hear someone speaking it #it sounds so fucking pretentious and dumb oh my gooood i hate it so much #i don't really know why to be honest it's a purely instinctual reaction of rage that happens when i hear it #also not only does a french french accent sound terrible the expressions they use in france are SO fucking cringe #at one of my previous jobs i had a coworker who had recently immigrated from france and listening to her was TORTURE #she would use the dumbest fucking expressions to say things everytime she did that i wanted to be struck by lightning #like she called work ''le boulot'' instead of ''le travail'' or ''la job''#NO ONE in quebec uses the word boulot!!!!#NO ONE I CAN GUARANTEE YOU THAT NO ONE CALLS IT THAT #it just sounds so fucking bad when you hear that man i dont know why i hate it so much but i do i just can't stand it #working with her was just non stop stuff like this and my ears were bleeding the entire time #and the cherry on top is that i suspect that it was that coworker specifically who went to snitch and lie about me sending rude texts #about our boss #which is why i got fired despite being good at my job and getting along with all the rest of my coworkers except that manager #who's had it out for me since the first day i stepped into the store #she spent a week deadnaming me for example when everyone else called me by my chosen name from the moment i asked them to #and she seemed to always have a problem with everything i did even when what i was doing was something i had been asked to do #by someone in a position higher than hers lmao #her favorite thing was yelling at me that i wasn't at my register whenever i dared to step further than 3 feet from it #literally she admonished me multiple times for not being at my post when i was at a distance where #i could touch the counter by simply lifting my arm and reaching for it

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