I can't comprehend this

[Mino]

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.

Srsly.

 

[Deleted User]

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.

Yeah....who said that Americans didn't have an accent?

 

[AndyB]

I don't even know what I just read. I also really want to slap you silly.

 

[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.

Yeah....who said that Americans didn't have an accent?

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

look this makes it sound like he is saying that American is just normal and not an accent. blah

 

[fantanoice]

Everybody has an accent because it's the way you speak, defined by your upbringing.

But if you were to debate about somebody 'not' having an accent while speaking English, then it would be the English... y'know... it being their language and all.

 

[Rocketman]

Despite the turnoff this topic as turned into, I'll just say one thing that hasn't been answered yet:


Where did the shortening of words come from? Was it just a progressive lazy tongue being developed?

We all know er makes the "err sound".

If it didn't, then wouldn't it be "ah", as in "numbah"

 

[Rocketman]

Anyway, just close this stupid thread lol

 

[Psychonaut]

Anyway, just close this stupid thread lol

cool bump + backseat modding, bro

i really have gotten a more lazy tongue, and need to get out of the habit before i turn into a redneck. seriously.

 

[Colour Bandit]

I can't understand what some American people say, just my problem with processing accents though. For part of my English GCSE I have to take apart an accent and write about it, which is un-fair on a death girl in my class because she can't even hear accents but still has to do that part of the GCSE.

 

[Psychonaut]

I can't understand what some American people say, just my problem with processing accents though. For part of my English GCSE I have to take apart an accent and write about it, which is un-fair on a death girl in my class because she can't even hear accents but still has to do that part of the GCSE.

how do you not hear something, unless you're deaf? :/

she just doesn't pick up on them, which (i'm assuming) is the point of the activity.

 

[Rocketman]

I can't understand what some American people say, just my problem with processing accents though. For part of my English GCSE I have to take apart an accent and write about it, which is un-fair on a death girl in my class because she can't even hear accents but still has to do that part of the GCSE.

You must mean deaf, right?

 

[TommySnow]

Haha xD I don't know if this happens in England but for some reason nearly everyone finishes there sentences with the word ''like''

Like :L

 

[muffun]

I can't understand what some American people say, just my problem with processing accents though. For part of my English GCSE I have to take apart an accent and write about it, which is un-fair on a death girl in my class because she can't even hear accents but still has to do that part of the GCSE.

You must mean deaf, right?

No, she obviously meant a dead girl. The dead girl has to take the examination.

OBVIOUSLY. 8D

 

[Lisathegreat!]

Lol, I get deaf & death mixed up sometimes.

Do british people ever try using an american accent? I mean.. srsly, idk. D:

 

[Jas0n]

Lol, I get deaf & death mixed up sometimes.

Do british people ever try using an american accent? I mean.. srsly, idk. D:

I tend to talk in a more American-styled accent, purely because I hate the typical British accent.

I don't think I could even talk in a typical British accent if I wanted to tbh, even though I'm British XD

 

[Lisathegreat!]

Lol, I get deaf & death mixed up sometimes.

Do british people ever try using an american accent? I mean.. srsly, idk. D:

I tend to talk in a more American-styled accent, purely because I hate the typical British accent.

I don't think I could even talk in a typical British accent if I wanted to tbh, even though I'm British XD

xD

I've never heard someone with a british accent talk with an american accent, though. I've heard an american talk with a british accent though.

i just dun get it D:

 

[TommySnow]

Beat this! A guy came to talk to us in school he had a Scotish/American accent xD

I speak in an American Accent for a laugh sometimes xD

 

[Nixie]

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!

Technically, The white American race once came from Britain as early settlers in the continent but not the natives (then their language caught on and is now used throughout) :/

FYI I pronounce all My T's, ER's and whatnot some people are stereotyping... Only a proportion of the British population do that. (Usually the people with a dialect within the supposed "British accent")

Accents exists because of dialects, so in fact what you class as an accent depends on where you come from. ^.^

\\semi-long typed out essay D<

Suppose in my case the dialect in America (not all parts, just some) pronounce Water* as <big>wa</big>hler (It's hard to type out. The big part is where the sound of the word said strongly)
Then again I like studied 5 different languages and they all pronounce things in different ways most of the time so I guess I'd have to get used to it. XP

<small><small><small>*There's a story where the air hostess person couldn't understand me u_u</small></small></small>
Lastly... No, I didn't read all the pages before posting (I know, I'll get shot for it) x_x

 

[Rocketman]

I guess people just don't realize they're doing it. It just becomes solid in their everyday speech.

 

[HumanResources]

'ELLO GUVNAH! What'd you be talkin' about? Spoonfull of sugar, tea, crumpets and all that. We Brits simply adore our whimsical accent, it reminds us of the 'unt!!!