I can't comprehend this

[Rocketman]

British people doing American accents. It just seems weird. It seems British is the accent, and American is just some boring normal tone.

Like water, for instance, is spelled:

Water

Not

"'Ello, get me a glass of Watta"

Or:

Butter

Butta

Or, let's go watch Harry Potter
Let's go watch Harry Potta*

Or the classic:

WHAT'S YOUR NUMBA!?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE74bNigkm4 <small><small><small>Kid had buck teeth lol im just joking but it's true</small></small></small>

what is this i don't even...

British just sounds cool.

Tea and crumpets, tally ho!

 

[Pear]

It's pretteh noice, Oi livet in the Eu K for awhoile, so oi can do a pretteh gud impersonation.

 

[Deleted User]

British people hear American accents as nasally and boring.

 

[Rocketman]

British people hear American accents as nasally and boring.

American accents are boring, unless you've got a dialect, like Redneck or New Joisy.

But then again, those can just be annoying.

But "Proper English", like I pointed out, would be pronounced that way. Then again, English did come from, no other than, the English.

Then where did the need for the unnecessary "a" shortening of "er" words come from?

Like "numba". It's obviously spelled number, er, urrr...

But I guess that's just propa English.

 

[Deleted User]

I don't really notice British accents anymore. Almost all of the videos you watch in school are narrated by a British person, and a lot of normal TV shows are like that too. Same with video games. Also, anyone notice that when a British person sings you can't really notice the accent at all?

 

[Rocketman]

I don't really notice British accents anymore. Almost all of the videos you watch in school are narrated by a British person, and a lot of normal TV shows are like that too. Same with video games. Also, anyone notice that when a British person sings you can't really notice the accent at all?

Yeah, except when they pronounce words differently.

Like in Levon, Elton says "garaj" for "garage". But I think that's just him.


But really, where'd it come from? Is it just a form of lazy tongue? Like Redneckism. That's where southern accents came from, was Irish and English.

 

[kalinn]

Ah I loove accents!

 

[Deleted User]

I don't really notice British accents anymore. Almost all of the videos you watch in school are narrated by a British person, and a lot of normal TV shows are like that too. Same with video games. Also, anyone notice that when a British person sings you can't really notice the accent at all?

Yeah, except when they pronounce words differently.

Like in Levon, Elton says "garaj" for "garage". But I think that's just him.


But really, where'd it come from? Is it just a form of lazy tongue? Like Redneckism. That's where southern accents came from, was Irish and English.

The reason that the American accent is different is because there are so many cultural influences in our country. For a while after the USA was first settled, people still spoke in a British accent.

 

[Gnome]

British people hear American accents as nasally and boring.

American accents are boring, unless you've got a dialect, like Redneck or New Joisy.

But then again, those can just be annoying.

But "Proper English", like I pointed out, would be pronounced that way. Then again, English did come from, no other than, the English.

Then where did the need for the unnecessary "a" shortening of "er" words come from?

Like "numba". It's obviously spelled number, er, urrr...

But I guess that's just propa English.

I thought English came from Germanic tribes.

shows what I know.

 

[Miranda]

British people hear American accents as nasally and boring.

American accents are boring, unless you've got a dialect, like Redneck or New Joisy.

But then again, those can just be annoying.

But "Proper English", like I pointed out, would be pronounced that way. Then again, English did come from, no other than, the English.

Then where did the need for the unnecessary "a" shortening of "er" words come from?

Like "numba". It's obviously spelled number, er, urrr...

But I guess that's just propa English.

I thought English came from Germanic tribes.

shows what I know.

English is derived from German. You were not wrong. English came from the German language.
An English speaking person can easily learn German, because English came from German. But it's more difficult to go from German to English, I know this all too well....

 

[Deleted User]

I think English also has strong French roots too.

 

[OJ.]

I have a Southern California accent (monotonous), which is considered pure, non-accented English by some. And British accents, for the record, are hilarious.

 

[[Nook]]

Occents ah cool, do you not acree?

 

[Rocketman]

That still doesn't explain where the lazy cut-off of appropriate word endings and sounds came from.

Do I need to give examples?

It's clearly speller, not spella.

Or warrior.

Not wahya, or something different like that.

 

[Deleted User]

That still doesn't explain where the lazy cut-off of appropriate word endings and sounds came from.

Do I need to give examples?

It's clearly speller, not spella.

Or warrior.

Not wahya, or something different like that.

It's not cut-off. That's just how they pronounce those letters.

 

[Numner]

British people hear American accents as nasally and boring.

American accents are boring, unless you've got a dialect, like Redneck or New Joisy.

But then again, those can just be annoying.

But "Proper English", like I pointed out, would be pronounced that way. Then again, English did come from, no other than, the English.

Then where did the need for the unnecessary "a" shortening of "er" words come from?

Like "numba". It's obviously spelled number, er, urrr...

But I guess that's just propa English.

Oh boy!

How-cool-am-I?

 

[Sporge27]

EVERYONE HAS AN ACCENT!

Honestly how is "American" the norm? It isn't, and there are even accents within America.

You learn your accent from where you grew up and everything else seems different after that. To Britain we are the ones with the accent.

 

[Psychonaut]

<div class='spoiler_toggle'>evidence of redneck dialect/accent</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">http://www.youtube.com/v/4zG-w3XwgEE&autoplay=1</div>

 

[Numner]

<div class='spoiler_toggle'>evidence of redneck dialect/accent</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">http://www.youtube.com/v/4zG-w3XwgEE&autoplay=1</div>

Seems pretty accurate.

Sounds like my dad.

 

[fantanoice]

I think it's funny how Australians pronounce 'today' as 'to die.'

"I'm goin' for a drive to die."