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Sure you can!
I don’t even have a broad British accent, generic middle class southern, but most speech to text can’t follow me well since I don’t speak Yank.
The (certain, wealthy parts of the) US centrism is mucho annoying.
I don’t understand why this is considered US-centric. It’s not like anybody is making it illegal or oppressed to develop speech models in your local area.
Local hobbiests tend not to have then as the default for phones, and pc software.
The fact that the US companies can’t even get their voice recognition to follow other US accents but still think that they’re ready for global rollout.
You’re right in that we should encourage non-Yankspeak English search engines. It would be a good way to attempt to stymie the loss of our own culture.
Anything else y’all?
don’t forget the
I went to Greenville, South Carolina to view the eclipse in 2017.
Watched it from the Greenville zoo.
There was a guy there, standing in line at the concession stand, talking on the phone to another person.
He kept telling the other person, in his native tongue, that he was in the “Food Line”. After like 10 times repeating himself he burst out laughing “nah! Not the food Li-unn, the food LINE!”
Food Lion, for those readers who are unaware, is a regional grocery chain.
The zoo was an awesome place to view an eclipse, btw. Animals were going nuts. There were students there documenting their reaction with go-pros on many exhibits. But I’ll never forget that guy.
2024 Eclipse we saw from the Perot Museum in Dallas. Also an awesome experience. They had live music and scientist commentary, and after the eclipse they played “Here comes the sun” and it was just perfect.
Had a very puzzling conversation about wells with a guy I worked with, finally figured out he meant whales.
If you hadnt posted this I was going to haha
What’s a chicken biscuit though?
A chicken sandwich with a biscuit for bread
What type of biscuit though? Hobnobs? Custard Creams? Honestly I’m struggling to think of a biscuit that would go well with chicken.
Looks like what we call a scone. Whatever name you use, they’re delicious.
It’s different than a scone, which is dense. Southern USA has a special kind of flour we use when we make our biscuits that has lower protein and gluten content. It makes for a much softer dough, and a softer end result.
I want desperately to leave my country and go to another one, bring some of our soft red winter wheat seeds with me, and begin making southern (US) style biscuits for the masses somewhere else. I’d make biscuits n gravy and I’d share them with the world.
If you ever come through West Virginia, don’t miss Tudor’s Biscuit World. They’re literally everywhere. I have had so many home made southern style soul food biscuits in my life but nothing beats Tudor’s. The biscuits and gravy are top notch but you’ll be doing yourself wrong if you don’t get a sandwich. Some people get a side of gravy to dip the sandwich.
It’s not though, the consistency is different. These bitches are buttery and flakey, and savory. Closer to a crescent roll if you’re familliar. Scones are great too and all but ime they have a different consistency entirely and aim for sweet instead of savory.
But yeah all listed pastries are delicious!
American scones are very sweet compared to what they make in Britain. They will put sweet cream or jam on them to sweeten them up.
American Southern style biscuits are unlike anything made in the UK to my knowledge. There’s just no comparison.
I’m guessing they are asking because in British English biscuits are cookies?
An answer to make most people mad:
In case you aren’t being an intentional dumbass; in American ‘biscuit’ means savory buttery pastry roll. Each of the items you listed would be referred to here as ‘cookies’.
I know what they are. It was a bit of a deliberate play on words, swapping the American and English definitions of biscuit. A joke that was perhaps a bit too subtle or too British for Americans to comprehend.
I got it but, to me at least, the delivery/wording made it unfunny for me. I took it as being intentionally thick and condescending, which is also how I read this response.
It’s also about the two thousandth time everybody in America has heard that Brits call cookies biscuits. It’s not even funny the first time, just like an “oh, ok” moment.
Fluffy or flaky biscuit (american, savory buttery pastry dough) sandwich with a bit of breaded fried chicken. Frequently with some honey on it.
Bless your heart
Chicken flavoured dry cat food biscuits, I guess? :)
Biscuit cut in half with (usually) a fried chicken patty or fried breast meat in the middle.
My ex learned English as a second language and was fluent but she had a very hard time with any heavy accent.
My first language is English and some accents/dialects are very difficult. Certain Indian speakers, Scottish speakers, Newfies, and West Virginians (which has a lot of Scots and Irish roots) can take me some time to acclimate to.
My wife too. She grew up in Taiwan and moved to America in middle school.
She can’t understand understand British or Australian accents, where I can hear the differences between the two.
She literally can’t understand Indian accents. It’s like they are not speaking English at all.
I’m a native speaker and have absolutely no issue whatsoever with Australian and British accents, but people with a heavy Indian accent still sound like they’re not speaking English to me.
I think we were exposed to more Brit and Aus influences. Thinking Steve Erwin, Crocodile Dundee, and a bunch of British actors.
For Indian speaking influence, nope. Even today, the only exposure to Indian accents is at work and even then, its limited.
You can get better at understanding accents by listening to them more, so yeah, that’s probably why.
It doesn’t help that Indian English often still uses a lot of colonial terms, like Capsicum instead of bell pepper. That being said most Indians in the US will adjust to the local vocabulary pretty quickly.
Please do the needful
I absolutely LOVE Indian accents, especially with a very sing-song speech pattern.
If there were a phonetic phrase book like this, I might begin to learn their exotic language.
A southern accent? That doesn’t sound like a Kent accent to me?
Maybe he means southern Canada??
Many planets have a south pole
Reminds me of a time that I told my boss the “text dick taking” was not working so well. We had a good laugh about that one later.
Trying to watch Tiger King without subtitles
Some years ago when We were visiting my dad in Mississippi, my husband (Canadian) and I ,(American who moved to Canada) went to dinner and I had make the order because he just couldn’t get a handle on the deep southern accent hahaha
They got all those computers down south, doncha know?
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