• @robocall
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    61 year ago

    British - fancy

    America - normal

    Australia - wildcard

      • @mholiv
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        121 year ago

        British should be eevee if anything. There are double the British accents compared to American ones. Cockney, London, Welsh, Scottish, Northern Ireland are extremely distinct let alone the hundreds of other distinct regional accents.

        • @[email protected]
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          Same for the us, though. NY, Boston, Midwestern, New England, Minnesota, Atlantic, Southern, Texan, Pacific Nw, Californian. And various specific regional like queens, Brooklyn, Philly. It goes on and on. The US is not the monolith it’s often described as.

        • @rambaroo
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          11 year ago

          Tbf they only sound “extremely distinct” to British people. A lot of those accents are hard to distinguish for non-native speakers or people outside the UK.

      • @[email protected]
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        Now comes the hard part of defining all the Eeveelutions.

        I feel like there are a few very distinct regional accents, but I’m having trouble coming up with the right distinction from the top of my head.

        There’s New England, the south in general, New York, Chicago which immediately trigger my brain to think of a very specific accent. Surely there is more to it though?

        Edit: seems @[email protected] made an excellent list.

      • Deceptichum
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        21 year ago

        Youse have two accents, American and Southern.

        Britain has a new accent every 20cm.

        • @DarkMessiah
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          91 year ago

          A Boston accent is different from a New York accent, is different from a Missouri accent, is different from a Mississippi accent, is different from a Florida accent, is different from a Texas accent, is different from an Oklahoma accent, etc. Even within states, it fully depends on how rural you live, whether you went to college… hell, even your tax bracket in some cases.

          I say this as an Australian that grew up in America: the sheer size of the place is enough to have something like fifty regional accents per state. Like everything with the US: it’s fucking insane.

          • @agent_flounder
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            61 year ago

            Hell even different NYC accents: Queens, Brooklyn, …

        • FartsWithAnAccent
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          41 year ago

          Tell that to someone from Bawston lol, the US has way more than 2 accents for sure. UK does have a lot though, not sure who actually has more. Let’s find a linguist!

        • @rambaroo
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          Lmao to me Britain has two accents, Scottish and English. The rest sound the same. Y’all think your accents are so special to the point where it gets cringe sometimes.

      • @[email protected]
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        America actually has very little geographic variation in accents.

        In the UK, for instance, it can change drastically from village to village.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          Maybe for the regions that only speak one language. East Texas alone mixes English, Spanish, French and German dialects. It’s like a sitcom of bad accents down there.

        • @rambaroo
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          11 year ago

          It’s funny when people confidently make shit up on the Internet

    • @agent_flounder
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      America - which one of Southern (various), U.P., Massachusetts, Atlantic, valley girl, NYC (various) Minnesota, Philly, Chicago, … ?