Why does American English sound different than British?
>>70704514
dental hygiene
>>70704514
Correct tooth placement.
>>70704514
It's now generally accepted that American English is closer to how the language sounded before they split, so:
1) British pronunciation drifted to what it is now, while conversely
2) American spelling drifted to what it is now
We have new york accents, chicago accents, california accents, minnesota accents, texas accents, do brits have any local accents?
It's because we're massive faggots and burgers aren't.
>>70704568
FPBP
>>70704514
The closest english accent in the US to the brits its southern drawl.
>>70704661
>he hasn't heard scouse people talk
>>70704607
This is false. Old English sounded more like how people from Yorkshire and the North of England speak. Americans do not speak with an older version of English, they speak with just a new version of English as the people in the South of England.
Stop spreading your disinfo Amerikike.
>>70704607
Yeah specifically southern dialects. It's really crazy to think about. British people literally changed the way they speak in an attempt to sound smarter than us.
>>70704514
How Is 5150 Related To Being A Skin head?>>70704514
why can British actors pull off the American accent perfectly, but American actors rarely if ever nail the British accent?
>>70704661
scotch
The highest form of language is Aust tr sl8an english
>>70704787
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScELaXMCVis&nohtml5=False
Fuck off Amerikike.
>>70704818
Intelligence level.
>>70704720
not in the slightest Y'ALL
>>70704818
Australian actors are the same. I'm guessing it's because they always see American media while we barely see any of theirs
>>70704864
>Watch this video on YouTube
eh
I don't know if I care enough about this video to open it up in a new tab
If it won't play in the embedded format, well, I've done my part
>>70704864
British people should be on their knees pleasuring every American they come by. We give you Brits movies, video games, american cuisine, but most importantly, we saved your sorry asses in WW2.
>>70704892
the english speak the shittiest version of their own language
australian, american...english sounds better coming out of virtually anyone's mouth except a brit
>>70704792
He's loco, mang.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5150_(involuntary_psychiatric_hold)
>>70704514
Americans are stupid so they can't spell
>>70704818
Same reason most Welsh or Danish people speak English, but you don't know how to speak Welsh or Danish
>>70704738
I fucking love the scouse accent. Literally sounds like a person humming letters. Fucking ace
>>70704978
>e give you Brits movies
Hollywood is shit. I don't watch anything from the US.
>, video games,
No American games either.
> american cuisine,
Thanks for the increased obesity rate.
>but most importantly, we saved your sorry asses in WW2.
Get over yourself. Britain saved itself in the battle of Britain.
>>70704975
Stay ignorant Amerinigger. Just stop repeating your bullshit when your accents are just as new as the Southerners here.
We evolved
Question for the brits: is there an English accent inside the UK that is comparable to a Southern American accent in America? Like as soon as you hear the southern drawl, you immediately think think Texas, and depending on your views you might think him to be a racist redneck.
>>70705023
This is rich coming from a guy who can't figure out the intricacies of the porcelain throne
>>70704607
Then why do Australia and NZ sound so similar to British English? Did they also drift in the same direction? If so, why?
>>70705167
>Tattoos
Kill yourself.
>>70705167
I was in Norn Ire, they are literally the rednecks of the British Isles. Pretty nice place though, gotta admit I liked it better than Wales or Londonistan.
Fuck Scotland, just fuck Scotland. Nuke it all and save the rest of the UK.
>>70705126
No you definitely would have been fucked.
>>70705167
It was already mentioned. Scouse.
>>70704764
Your accent was created by wealthy brits as a way to distance themselves from Americans.
Stay cucked, buddy..
https://www.quora.com/Did-Americans-in-1776-have-British-accents
>>70704514
1. The British invented Received Pronunciation to sound different from the hordes of English speakers they were creating with the colonies
2. Daniel Webster, when writing the first American English dictionary, deliberately mis-spelled words from their British equivalents in order to differentiate American speech from English.
>>70705317
Retard, I'm from Yorkshire. I don't speak like a Southern fairy. Get fucked you ignorant American piece of shit. Your accents are newer than mine is. God I hate Americans, you are so damned stupid. You think everyone speaks the Queen's English when only 1% of the population do.
Just kill yourself you slimy waste of space.
>>70705126
We out produced literally everyone else combined on both sides of the war.
Without our supplies, you guys would be just another portion of the Atlantic ocean
>>70704661
>do brits have any local accents?
Wow. You have no idea how radically different accents can be in the UK. It's at the point where some Englishmen living 100 km apart can meet and not understand each other. Listening to Scouse, Geordie, Mancunian, Liverpudlian and Glaswegian, you'd think they were all from different parts of the world. America has nothing on the UK when it comes to linguistic diversity. It's nothing to be proud (or ashamed) of, but it's definitely strange.
>>70705126
please calm down you autistic dork
>>70705278
Simply this. Muhammad get over yourself.
Went to a festival in Leicestershire last year, and a lot of Brits have the same kind of ridiculous Simlish tone of voice like Norwegians.
>>70705491
>muh supplies
You are the equivalent of China claiming they save the west by producing consumer products. Unless you fight your products mean nothing.
>>70705528
I'm calm. I just hate Americans because you are all so damned stupid.
>>70705448
It's ok, bro. I'd be mad as well.
>>70704864
That sounds a bit like texan to me.
>>70705016
I thought it meant the Van Halen album
>>70705023
t. indian intellectual
>>70704607
> American spelling drifted to what it is now
Noah Webster helped with that: :https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_Webster#Publication
>>70705608
>I'm calm
>I'm throwing an anonymous temper tantrum about Americans on an anime image board, but I'm calm
>>70705623
I'm not mad. This is just how I write.
>>70705636
I don't hear it.
>>70705448
You said fockin wot m8??
>>70705706
https://youtu.be/ScELaXMCVis?t=49
https://youtu.be/s3AuqeI51mY?t=118
>>70705701
>Insulting someone is a temper tantrum
Why are Americans so stupid?
>>70705721
I'm not from London.
>>70705608
>hate americans
>posts on an American website
You wot m8?
>>70704514
Melting pot: of accents.
Germans
Scandinavians
Mexicans
Italians
Poles
Jews
Native Americans
Chinese
Koreans
>>70705608
Whatever you say buddy. Enjoy your halal at Tesco and shariah in the streets.
> the crumbling empire once referred to as "great" britain
Makes me lel every time
>>70705706
>Get fucked you ignorant American piece of shit
>God I hate Americans, you are so damned stupid
>Just kill yourself you slimy waste of space.
>Not mad
![be8[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/IYzIZBJ.png "be8[1].png")
>>70705785
>look how I'm taking it all in stride everybody. No sir-ree, I'm not upset at all
>>70705785
That's ok we assume you all say that on a daily basis
>>70704568
Lol this meme will never get old. But why the fuck we are obliged to watch American made movies about something that happened a long time ago and not even in England where all people speak with a British dialect?
>>70704514
It's almost identical.
We have different accents and so do you. A Mid West accent is not the same as someone from Alabama.
Some local differences, but whatever.
English is English. It's just a language that we speak and understand.
I'm English and speak in dialect to my mum, wife, kids and friends.
I doubt you'd understand me if I spoke in my dialect. It's a fucked up version of Old Norse, Anglo Saxon and some Celtic. But it's my language. And identity.
Americans, Canadians, Australians. Whoever.
If you speak our language then that's a signal that you are a m8.
>>70705782
There is a similar drawl but I don't think we sound the same at all.
>>70705823
Why not?
>>70705846
>My county is 98.8% English
>Everyone else are mostly Poles and other Brits
You don't get to pretend you are white Amerikike when your country is already less than 60% white.
>>70705940
I'm not. Not all of us get emotional over what they say on the internet faggot.
>>70706018
Isn't it strange how accents evolve? Is there an objectively correct way to pronounce English?The concept of it is pretty amazing.
Anglosphere4ever
we realized the Brits were pretty queer after stomping them in the revolution and made a deliberate effort to distinguish our dialect and not sound so faggy
>>70705782
>the real Texas accent
We have more than one.
![1447685911092[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/reiV0BM.jpg "1447685911092[1].jpg")
>>70706049
>Listen to me you stupid faggot, why won't you just accept that I'm totally and completely calm?
Post accents
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0wBrrrao2uL
>>70706049
>says he doesn't consume American media.
>sees no problem posting on an American website.
I thought we were the dumb ones? Too many attempts at "preserving the royal bloodline," Simon?
>>70705023
>deoderant
>curry
>pooinloo
>cow
>>70706260
Give us something to say.
>>70706285
I dunno, fuck. Say where you're from and something interesting? A rhyme? Anything?
A heavy influx of Ulster Scots affected change among the American English dialect.
>>70706267
>says he doesn't consume American media.
>sees no problem posting on an American website.
It is a website with a lot of Americans. I don't really see much American media here.
>>70704975
just click it - it opens in its /own/ new tab.
>>70706112
West Coast American English (not surferfags, snowbros, or stonerspeak) is clearly the only "correct" or "standard" form of the English language.
>>70704514
In the Midwest we got Scandinavian and Celt immigrants that heavily affected it.
>>70706331
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0yZQ9OB1mQ4
>>70704818
Had an English friend over here once, his american accent is really bad -- like, a bad Hulk Hogan thing. Upon my impression of his accent, he said I sounded more australian. His exaggerated Scottish accent is really good (to my Yank ears, anyways), reminds me of Shrek.
>>70704663
yes. good ahmed. catch treat!
>>70706643
>>70704661
West Countrymen, Bristol, Londoner, Cockney, Scotch, etc.
>>70706497
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5lXNjNJC3Q
>>70706007
Have you not noticed that the new fad in hollywood is shoehorning english accents into roles to give them meaningless quirk?
>>70704607
That's only about rhotacism which is how the letter r is pronounced in words, England and by extension Boston due to trade shifted to a soft r at some point.
>>70706331
>>70706285
It's best to have a standard script to read, word for word, so as to better isolate and contrast the different accents. Some linguists just use a list of words. The following is just such a list. Read it:
Aunt
Roof
Route
Theater
Iron
Salmon
Caramel
Fire
Water
New Orleans
Pecan
Both
Again
Probably
Alabama
Lawyer
Coupon
Mayonnaise
Pajamas
Caught
Naturally
Aluminium
Crackerjack
Doorknob
Envelope
>>70706933
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0rRCOuW27IR
>>70706782
>>70706018
>English is the same for all
>speaks with the accent noone understands
https://youtu.be/1crhwQPKr7w
>>70707100
Cool.
Your pronunciation of
Aunt
Pecan
Alabama
Salmon
Aluminium
is very different from us Canadians. I don't have a mic here though :(
>>70704514
Who cares.
Another retarded thread on /pol/.
>>70707316
I'm the only one doing it...
>>70706933
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1QQ3uaXGARZ
>>70706933
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1JlK61rlNXC
>>70706497
>implying
Try saying 'cot' and 'caught'
If they sound the same, you're subhuman filth and need to be gassed.
>>70707562
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0SP1z0za17O
Britbongistanians say OI
'Mericans say AY
>>70707638
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0kjBkHRhVtY
>>70705608
>logistics and supply mean nothing in a war
>Durrrrrrrr
>>70707517
Great accent. Where is that from, exactly?
>>70706933
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0J5ApZ9cBh4
>>70707703
I'm from a village in East Yorkshire.
>>70706933
>Aluminium
>>70706578
>>70707100
I just realized I sound happier when I speak in English.
>>70707633
Wow what a big difference.
In north America, caught and cot are pronounced the same, sort of like "khawt"
>>70704514
>Why does American English sound different than British?
Part of the Jewish divide and conquer protocol...
>>70706782
Kek' not what I was expecting
>>70707562
>Two words that are pronounced the same should sound different
You need a speech therapist anon.
>>70707818
It's regional.
>>70704764
>Old English
i don't think any accent is more like old english than the next at this point, it was a thousand years ago and it's a dead language
>>70707953
The accent not the language.
>>70708014
i demand evidence their accent is closest to anglo saxon
>>70704864
I don't know why but this video is fucking hilarious.
>>70707920
Wow. Very interesting.
>>70708116
Yeah, I really enjoy it.
>>70708101
>butthurt american
>>70708163
not an argument
>butthurt limey autist freaking out in the thread is calling someone else butthurt
holy shit kill yourself
>>70708219
>>70708382
>ameriniggers are frustrated
>>70707517
>>70707633
Damn you sound like a retarded lumberjack
>>70707316
His envelope was a little off too. There is no soft 'L' in it.
>>70708412
>he's still sperging out
I was in Norfolk last year and I was hit immediately with some vocal similarity to a general North American accent
Peculiar twangs and sounds in some of their words
>>70707920
>mfw I pronounce them the same and live deep in red territory
I always have people asking me if I'm from out of town so it just must be one of those things.
>>70707791
Nice one
Are there noticable distinctions in Australia?
>>70708412
who are you quoting?
>>70708855
I am rephrasing your comment into its correct format.
>>70704764
No one is talking about Old English you dumb fuck. Colonial Americans didn't speak Old English.
>>70707920
>Live near the dark spot in Jersey
>not like the whole damn state isn't red
>pronounce them the same
How is this possible, fampai?
>>70708992
Which is my point. Their accents are all new.
>>70704661
Yeah, there's the scouser accent. Fucking hot ass British babe Tanya Tate has it. Holy fuck is she hot.
>>70704969
Weirdly, whenever I see an Australian actor in an American movie, doing their natural Aussie accent, it always sounds really forced and fake, like they're exaggerating it. I wonder if they really are, or if its just me perceiving it that way because of the contrast with the American accent.
>>70709039
>Their accents are all new.
no more new than british accents, american accents for the most part descend from british accents. the british colonists didn't just get off the boat and start speaking in a new accent. pronunciations and language change over centuries, this includes in the british isles.
>>70709205
It's because they're melbourne trash.
>>70709328
Also my point. Americans came into this thread and started saying "our accents are the real English accents".
>>70708807
Sort of but not really
There are supposedly 3 accents of Australia but unless you take them to the extreme they wouldn't be noticeable by anyone but an Australian. For example, compare Steve Irwin, Hugh Jackman and Malcolm Turnbull - they're the 3 different types of Australian accent, and they're not geographic, they're socioeconomic. Additionally, people who live in rural Western Australia sound more like people from rural New South Wales than they do people from Perth and the people of Perth sound more like Sydney than they do people from rural New South Wales, despite Sydney and Perth being 3300 kilometres away.
That being said there are stereotypes that people from Queensland sound 'more bogan' and people from South Australia sound 'more posh'. That is true, but to an extremely small extent. It's mostly just a stereotype.
>>70709205
It's just the contrast. If you ever leave Australia for several months on holidays or whatever, when you come back you'll notice just how strong the accent is.
>>70704514
You have many accents...so do we
listen to someone from bristol and then liverpool for example.
>>70709392
anyone who makes that claim is a fucking retard. all accents change over time, none remain exactly the same. both british accents and american accents have drifted from what they were when the colony was first established.
>>70705239
We were colonized much later. By the time we were being colonized, the USA was already an independent nation.
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1aBrf3aBMCx
>>70706933
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1aBrf3aBMCx
>>70705239
It's not certain where our accent came from. Hypothesised that because of the amount of alcoholic leprechaun worshippers shipped over here as convicts, a lot of fathers talked in a slurring manner, which their huge Irish families in turn picked up. This evolved into le g'day mate meme.
>>70710694
Cockney accent is pretty similar m8.
>>70710694
Cucked by tatty pickers lol
>>70704514
Listen to Some Irish people with mild accents and you can see how American evolved. They actually sound pretty similar.
>>70705833
Asian accents don't survive past 1st generation. They have not affected much of the dialect here in the states. Obviously different European accents developed and are more iconic. Hispanic Cubans have a certain way of talking j Florida and Mexican people usually just speak with a Spanish accent or a generic North American accent. Then you have your negro dialects. They have their own way of saying words as well.
>>70707803
whats wrong with Aluminium? :^)
>>70705003
women disagree :^)
oogabooga
>>70706844
>new fad
The english language was invented by an african kang
>>70706933
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1EXexZGmh3T
>>70707913
>cot and caught
>caht and cawt
Can't wait for California to cease existing, the world will only benefit.
Because it was mostly Irish and poor people that formed the colonies.
>>70704764
stop britwashing american history
>>70713764
Aluminum is actually the original spelling, European Standards changed it to Aluminium to keep it inline with other elements.
>>70718540
>brit admitting that anglos accomplished noffing
>>70718651
Don't make me copy paste the list of British discoveries and inventions...
It happened in Quebec/Canada too , The french we speak sound really different from France
>>70718589
>american history
>>70704514
Because you basically speak a nigger dialect that by some weird twist of fate happens to sound a bit like English.
>>70719009
>Says the country with the least manly sounding language.
>>70718838
>losing the revolutionary war
>losing all your colonies
>losing India
>irrelevant in 21st century not even a super power anymore
>>70719354
>losing poo in loo
Some Canadian accents are kinda fucked.
>>70719469
Wasn't it your crown jewel. I guess you really can polish a turd.
>>70704514
We done decided we don't want to talk like no girly ass fags.
It was decided by the founding fathers that we also spell things differently to set us apart from the British. Webster (the guy from Miriam-Webster dictionaries) was known as "the forgotten founding father" or something, I forget. It would be interesting to read up on him if you're actually into that part of our history.
>>70719991
That would have been Hong Kong
>>70704818
Coaching
acc>>70709518
i think most americans can understand each other no matter what part of the country there from (minus dindu dialects)
I cant for the life of me understand a single word someone from wales or newcastle says.
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1PJwonzUCF8
>>70720934
Bruh some Deep South drawls are hard to understand.
>>70720934
The taffs are just an inferior race full stop, truly the worst of the celts
>>70721522
>Bruh some Deep South drawls are hard to understand.
when i was in uni halls i had to share a kitchen with a welshmen, a guy from sunderland, a londener and a guy from norn iron, the welsh and irish guy might aswell of been speaking tagalog..
>>70715488
arab ones am i rite
>>70721849
Norn Urrland is trash, but I like ROI accents.
I was dating this qt from Dublin with the sexiest fucking accent ever.
>>70721849
>as well of
>of
>>70722000
we created the language, i can fuck it up as i see fit.
>>70722083
"aye ya ginae ruf eh proper m8 sum innit bruh gaffer" - William Shakespeare
>>70722240
I see you're familiar with the bard
>>70708101
>i demand evidence their accent is closest to anglo saxon
Nobody knows what the Old English dialect is, but East Midlands English is the closest to the medieval period as far as we know.
>>70722555
But the Midlands is full of Pakis?
>>70722652
Old English was originally Pakistani
>>70722717
You mean congolese
memetic evolution
>>70722652
>the Midlands is full of Pakis?
only really Leicester and Nottingham
Derbyshire (where I'm from) is 97% white
>>70722717
The only place you can hear the original American language is in a Nevada casino.
>>70705278
>england sitting comfortably 240km away from europe
>hank shows
>howdy y'all lets invade them darn krauts
>wtf america we're comfy
>shut the fuck up limey we gon get ourselves some white wimminz
>70 years later "we saved your ass"
>>70723161
Do you even know what Lend Lease was you bellend?
>>70705646
That's where Van Halen got the idea for the album name. It's common in California
Some of the pronunciation of various Southern American accents still sounds Irish and Scottish when I listen to it.
