well they did have their own language until we fucked them out of it
Hiddy-ho there you drunken bastard
But you already said American
They’re a lumberjack and that’s ok!
I cut down trees, I skip and jump
I like to press wild flowers
I put on women’s clothing
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I feel like all three of those accents have normal/fancy/wildcard options within them
As an Aussie I can confirm we have normal & wildcard, anyone trying fancy is just a knobhead.
I’ve had a scottish-texan accent for half a year once, and now I have an american accent sometimes while speaking german, my mother language, shit’s wild
Scottish-Texan? I can’t even comprehend what that would sound like. Congratulations, you’ve been speaking an eldritch tongue. Try not to summon Cthulhu.
Actually, I’d like to have my accent sound like a white south african, like how Leonardo DiCaprio speaks in blood diamond.
As a white South African, I’d like to not sound like one
I have a buddy who learned English as a second language early in life and he has a fluent Irish accent. I’ve never been able to wrap my head around that one.
I’m Canadian in Ontario and the first five years of my life, all I spoke or heard was my cultural language Ojibway-Cree. I went to school where I learned English but continued to only mostly speak my language.
Then I spent an awkward period as a teenager speaking English with a Native accent … a classic TV stereotypical Native accent and it was horrible. It took me about a decade to get over that phase, now I speak English as boringly as any Canadian. Not bad eh?
Have you seen Reservation Dogs? I’ve heard that Willie Jack has a Canadian Native accent, is that the case?
It’s always so interesting to hear surprise accents.
I once took a short trip through the south of Germany near Nuremberg … we were just on a random trip not knowing what we were doing in a rental car. We stopped at a gas station to get gas and got some help from an attendant, a young German teenager who spoke some English.
He talked to us in the weirdest accent I ever heard … a combination of English with a German accent and a touch of southern Texan or southern American. He had grown up learning English from army personnel from the American US base nearby.
Why choose when you can just randomly mix them
Just choose Australian. Tbh we don’t care how you say it just be loud.
Just call them prawns, that’s all we ask.
*scrimps
Oh boi, I’m too introverted to ever be loud
Think of it more as a whisper, just loud enough to be heard :')
My English accent usually depends on the most common accent in the podcasts I’ve been hearing that week
Lmao
I lived in South Korea for a while and I met a South Korean young lady who had learned English from an Australian teacher. This Korean girl had the most beautiful Australian accent with a hint of Korean. She was very talkative, Asian people get excited when they meet english-speakers so they can practice speaking English with us. So she talked a lot. It was a beautiful culture medley.
arrives late….
Cunts….
Haha you’ll never take my French accent away!
By trying to get rid of it I accidentally took the German accent, not sure how that works
Eh I’m not even trying, I try to articulate more but it’s hard, also everyone tells me it’s great so 🤷
I know a 100% native english speaker, who randomly switches between british, australian, Scottish and American accents.
As an American I feel like either US or UK could be considered the “normal” one, UK or AUS the “fancy” one, and US and AUS the “wildcard” (from the UK perspective).
Oh UK would definitely be the fancy one. It would need to be like a David Attenborough accent though
I’m English and my perspective is UK is both normal and fancy.
Aussie is wildcard.
US is just there because OP felt it needed to be involved for some reason.
Australian as the fancy one??
Fancy maybe wouldn’t be the best word, perhaps exotic, but I know there’s plenty of us who, depending on the Aussie, might not be able to tell the accent from a British one and just go “ooh, accent, fancy”.
No no, I speak a combination of the three. Although American English dominates my accent. That’s what you get when you grow up watching English-speaking media. You pick up their accents and you make one of your own.
In Europe we call it “Euro-English”
Ngl as someone who speaks British English I find Europeans with American accents hot
Ah right, Americans that aren’t actually American, gotcha.
Or is it not just us Euro folks but the Accent in general?
I don’t know, I haven’t really thought about the psychology behind it tbh. I think it’s the combination of both because I come from europe as well
I think Finnish school teaches the American pronunciation.
In my case; western games further hammered that down between my ears.
Interesting. German schools teach British English. It’s with time that I was more and more influenced by American English but first and foremost I have a strong German accent
In the UK, schools largely teach European French/Spanish/etc.
I wish more European countries would teach European (British) English.
Teaching British English would certainly feel the most appropriate as it is the local variant
You can teach whatever, the kids are still going to get way more exposure to American accents than British from tv and movies.
Oi cunt!
The bogan talk fits my gopnik soul like cat’s pyjamas
American, have considered immigrating just for the ability to use this phrase on the reg.
I don’t think you choose, it’s just kinda what you grow up around
OMG our usernames can be emojis??
It’s a cosmetic thing. @mojo@lemm.ee here has set a display name in addition to their username, which I believe supports any unicode character.
Phew. I thought this could lead to Unicode in URLs, which can get nasty.
