Question for our britcuck friends: Is it true that the "American"
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Question for our britcuck friends:
Is it true that the "American" accent of English is actually the original one and you got so cucked by Americans that you had to invent your own in an attempt to differentiate yourselves?
this is a bait thread but
http://the-toast.net/2014/03/19/a-linguist-explains-british-accents-of-yore/
actually not far off
>>60189511
I'm actually serious, not everything is le bait.
>>60189560
>smug frogposting a question that will obviously trigger brits
>not bait
>>60189481
Not in the slightest and I don't know where the burgers spouting this nonsense came from. It is way to widely said to be a 4chan meme.
>>60189615
I don't really care if it is bait because it is a legitimate issue that you all have.
>>60189919
It's not wrong though, American English is actually a bit closer to the way English was spoken centuries ago
>>60189481
i dont think its so much the accent more the fact they dont have a fuckton of french words/spellings that we added during the victorian era.
>>60189615
not very triggering tbqh.
>>60189894
There are some professors who said that the English accent of shakespeare's day was rhotic as opposed to the non-rhotic accents which dominate Britain today
>>60189936
Factually wrong and what retard filled your heads with this nonsense?
>>60189950
That is correct, but you have to be pretty fucking stupid t make the leap between rhotic = American.
In actuality they had the accent of the Westcountry.
Washington sounded Cornish.
stolen from roddit
>>60189938
>i'm not mad
you so mad :^)
>>60190060
And what does this prove? Fuck all.
>>60190450
>I'm not mad
>>60190465
That's the other guy lad. I'm the one trying to find out who filled your head with such lies.
>>60189950
Doesn't mean anything. The article clearly states Northern English, Scottish and Irish are all rhotic variants of English and they sound nothing like American.