How did the American accent form?
Some people say that this is how all Anglophone countries talked back in 1776, and since splitting it was actually the British and Aussies who changed dialects.
I also here from people that American accents have a German flavor to them.
Well both British and American accents have changed since 1776 because language isn't static
the current one is hollywood brainwashing the california accent if you will
this, as shocking as that might be for some to discover
That is false.
Roanoke Islanders apparently have the dialect closest to early Anglo-American settlers on the continent. Anthropologists study them quite a bit for that reason because the dialect is kinda a mystery.
The only unaccented American voice is that of the Bostonian. It may just be how the British sounded like in 1776. I dont know.
How do any accents form? British people came to America and the distance developed their own dialect continuum.
The reason American accents aren't as divergent is because America is younger. Australian accents are even less divergent than Americans because they are younger than us.
The Boston accent, or at least what's known as the "Yankee Twang", emerged primarily through East Anglian dialects
I don't remember the source, but I once heard that the modern Philadelphia accent is more or less what came over from England. The other accents formed due to a mixture of immigrants, each with their own accent. I buy it, the Minnesota accent has a similar ring/tone to Norwegian.
When people moved West, they mixed together and so did their accents. The result was a West Coast accent that is a mixture of other American accents. But, because accents evolve, you can now distinguish between different cities or parts of cities on the West Coast as well. The Hollywood accent is found in the part of LA that is West of Downtown all the way to Santa Monica, South of the Hollywood hills, and North of the 10 Freeway.
Australian accent sounds like American and British combined
Most American accents are rhotic, yet there are still many rhotic accents in the British Isles, which themselves are all distinct from each other. To suggest an American accent is the untainted 'true' English accent yet somehow every other has changed including Canada, Australia, New Zealand etc is clearly some kind of Yank delusion. I'm not saying any Americans on here believe this but some seem to.
Can you distinguish between LA or even So Cal accents? I lived there for 5 years and couldn't decipher a difference from say San Diego to the Hearst castle
Likewise there seems to be people in both the US and the UK who think British accents are unchanged and that only American accents have diverged/"been corrupted".
It sounds like the trashiest southern English accent possible
I've lived in LA/OC all my life, so I can distinguish parts of those counties, but I'm not familiar with SD accents. Honestly, the differences are extremely subtle, and most people can't distinguish them. People move around a lot, which adds some difficulty. For example, I lived in OC for like 8 years, and my accent is more similar to OC than to LA, and it's pretty different from that of the neighborhood where I live. I didn't really think about it too much until my mother commented on how I "talk weird," and my father informed her that my accent sounds like OC.
>The only unaccented American voice is that of the Bostonian
You're certainly right about that now, we have so many fucking transplants and college students that the Boston accent has basically all but died out aside from parts of Southie and certain suburbs. Pisses me off sometime desu.
Honestly we're just mid westerners who say soda instead of pop.
Hollywood is full of transplants.
Canada's accent is closer to American than the rest of the Commonwealth
I think it’s mostly just because people heard that the London accent was a manufactured accent from the Victorian era and wrongfully assume it applies to the whole isle
If you mean RP yes it is a mostly manufactured accent that private schools enforced on the upper classes
Interesting. I lived in the valley when i was there. Is the valley girl thing an affectation or an accent?
It certainly is a blue collar thing in Boston. Honestly these stupid fucking "Boston" movies made over the last 15 years or so have really hammed it up accent wise. The popularity of these films has made the Boston accent unimaginably popular with American women. Probably third behind the Irish brogue and Aussie accent
valley girl is just a made up joke
>Honestly these stupid fucking "Boston" movies made over the last 15 years or so have really hammed it up accent wise
Yeah, those are definitely way too intense, I like Scorsese but watching The Departed makes me chuckle every time. Even still, I do wish it was a little more common here, just because I feel like local accents are an important thing that keeps us unique from place to place. Being blanket "Americans" all around is kinda soulless.
Your Walk In The Park
Steve Stinson
Chatsworth, CA.
Information from Dan, www.ruralbridges.org, 1. Note I am not sure if localities are making national treasures; so I am not calling these parks national treasures. And of course, it's not clear where the name originated or from which animals. Raccoon City, I think. 2. When you find yourself calling a park a "road," what does that mean? Is it not all roads? If not, why should you care about them? How many children and cyclists cross the paths in the parks? Are they too few and far between for the public to care? I can't answer those questions. 3. Besides Do you feel like the cultural influence on Asheville's scene is changing?
I do actually. If you watch shows like "The Wire" and "Portlandia," you can watch the police become more tech-savvy. They even get their own internet headquarters in downtown Asheville. It's not just Ben Fields, but he's got his own staff now. This book says that everything is getting more tech-savvy, not just the local cops, but everything. So there are more people doing more interesting things
>Hollywood is full of transplants.
It absolutely is, but there's a certain accent that is commonly used in media. Hollywood proper is undergoing a change in accent due to the large concentration of gays, who have a distinct tonal pattern to their speech.
The Valley girl thing is an extreme exaggeration of a tonal pattern you can hear in certain parts of LA. It's not as prevalent anymore, but you can still hear similar tonal patterns in West LA, though the latter sounds a bit more sarcastic in comparison. Vocal fry seems to be on the rise in many parts of the county as well.
Canadian accents are similar to the American states they border. BC, for example, sounds very similar to Washington, though there are a couple of giveaways. I have mistaken people from Wisconsin for Canadians, but I once freaked out a tourist when I guessed correctly that she's from Ottawa.
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That does Ottawan accent sound like? I lived there for couple of years and I didn't notice any difference
>I don't remember the source, but I once heard that the modern Philadelphia accent is more or less what came over from England
You should kill yourself for this post
I honestly don't remember. This was several years ago, and I had become familiar with Canadian accents because I spent some time trying to identify a NWT accent after hearing it for the first time.
I don't know but why is it that after speaking in german, I speak english with a german accent?
>Some people say that this is how all Anglophone countries talked back in 1776
it's just a brainlet misunderstanding of rhotic vs non-rhotic. I'm sick of seeing this 4 or 5 times a day