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journey-to-the-attic · 4 months ago

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Probs a random question, but IK moved to England when she was quite young, right? Does that mean she developed one of the many accents there, and if so, could you tell us which one?

ooh i haven't really thought about this before... it's definitely not one of the posh ones, that's all i can say--

let me think about this... the boring answer is just "received pronunciation" but the thing about rp is that no one ever has a pure standard english accent anyway. now, this is going to be high specific, but!

take received pronunciation as the base, then make it softly yorkshire - but with an irish inflection on certain words that she learned from her aunt lisa

#answering asks #anon asks #does this make sense to anyone who isn't me #anyway to elaborate a little #ik didn't start speaking until quite a bit later than most kids do and even then it was only with her dad #zhao of course mainly conversed with her in mandarin plus he had a heavy accent when speaking english #subsequently a very young ik also had an accent which he thought would be difficult for other kids to understand #so he tried to make it so she'd learn rp using tapes at the library and such #hence her basic accent being standard english #but they live in the yorkshire area which of course crept into it #and then the irish from aunt lisa is self-explanatory #(ik can subsequently do a perfect very strong yorkshire accent)

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