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To: Buckeye McFrog

English in England is odd. Your accent carries a lot of class and status markers that just don’t apply in the same way in America. With the exception of Ebonics and extreme backwoods southern accents, we just don’t assign class and status by accent the way the Brits do.

So when we watch a British TV series, a lot of the undercurrents of interactions between characters are based on their accents, which goes zooming right over our heads. They all just sound “English” to us. With probable exception of Cockney, which most Americans can spot.

Interesting point. Australians sound like Americans to Brits, and like Brits to Americans.


53 posted on 09/16/2013 1:24:38 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (Mark Steyn: "In the Middle East, the enemy of our enemy is also our enemy.")
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To: Sherman Logan
in England...Your accent carries a lot of class and status markers that just don’t apply in the same way in America.

Am I the only one annoyed by the British hairdresser class that pronounces "hair" as "haah" in television ads for haircare products?

59 posted on 09/16/2013 1:34:09 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Remember... the first revolutionary was Satan."--Russian Orthodox Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov)
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To: Sherman Logan

If you lived where there was a strong divergence of accents like I do you would realize a degree of income and education affiliation

We simply don’t think much about class period except in old robber baron environs....Newport..... Brewster

Down here...you speak like a hick....you will be judged as one

I saw upper class manhattanites treat bensonhurst and bay ridge and other bridge and tunnel folks the same way

I love how for you only southerners have crappy white accents

You’re such a snob Shermie.....and oblivious to your own bigotry


67 posted on 09/16/2013 1:50:57 PM PDT by wardaddy (the next Dark Ages are coming as Western Civilization crumbles with nary a whimper)
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To: Sherman Logan; Pelham

If you lived where there was a strong divergence of accents like I do you would realize a degree of income and education affiliation

We simply don’t think much about class period except in old robber baron environs....Newport..... Brewster

Down here...you speak like a hick....you will be judged as one

I saw upper class manhattanites treat bensonhurst and bay ridge and other bridge and tunnel folks the same way

I love how for you only southerners have crappy white accents

You’re such a snob Shermie.....and oblivious to your own bigotry


68 posted on 09/16/2013 1:51:57 PM PDT by wardaddy (the next Dark Ages are coming as Western Civilization crumbles with nary a whimper)
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To: Sherman Logan

Interesting point. Australians sound like Americans to Brits, and like Brits to Americans
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Our daughter married an Englishman and spent a year working in England- on a phone help desk- so she talked to people all over the UK. They almost always thought she was from Canada!


94 posted on 09/16/2013 5:07:03 PM PDT by Red Boots
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