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To: Windflier

Close your eyes and hear an English accent. Unlike in America, you cannot tell if the person speaking is white or black, unless they just got to England off the boat.


28 posted on 09/10/2018 7:15:50 PM PDT by PallMal
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To: PallMal
Close your eyes and hear an English accent. Unlike in America, you cannot tell if the person speaking is white or black, unless they just got to England off the boat.

Perhaps not to the casual American ear, but there actually is an audible difference. It's slight, but it's there.

There is also a sort of hybrid British/Caribbean accent that some English blacks purposely accentuate when speaking. It's a cultural thing, which many of them can turn off at will.

34 posted on 09/10/2018 7:41:11 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: PallMal

That’s not true

Tottenham court and hampstead lane residence
Hatton Garden office

85-86

I can easily tell a black accent from average black living in Britain

Not so much Ebonics like here but an accent no question

Tone and inflection


53 posted on 09/11/2018 1:57:30 AM PDT by wardaddy (Wake up and quit aping opinions you think will make you popular here)
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