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