America Speaks The Best English

http://youtu.be/sWAUrHODRWM

 

Standard 'BBC' English was what I had in mind.


But yes, we have some horrendous accents here.

 

Never noticed that :bobby:

 

Ha! Maybe we both suffer a bit of the 'grass is greener' effect. I've always thought British diction sounded more intelligent. British children for example, seem much more articulate than their same aged American counterparts, to me anyway.

 

British accents are so cute

All Americans sound like idiots.

 

I watched a bunch of those. Good stuff. I know that when most of the folks on those videos speak to one another normally---they can be very

difficult to understand. Especially if they lay it on thick. I love the different accents around the US. Mid-west is a little harsh to me.

I think our Californian accent is probably the most neutral of our accents here. All Canadians sound like a neutral accent--except for

out-oat. About-aboat. Other than that, they're the same. (Quebec excepted, of course.

When I was 21, I worked in the oil fields and most of the workers are from the south, it seemed. You kinda' pick it up from those around

you. And well--I married an Okie girl back in the day.

 

IDIOTS!!! Hey. I resemble that remark!!

 

Well, I do beg your pardon, Little Lord Fauntleroy

 

Ello govna!

 

Yon't sumpn a' ite? Trans: You want something to eat? Friend from Tennesee a few years back.

 

someone used to say to me...i luf you.....and I thought, well, yuck, what is that supposed to mean..... and I don't luf you.....

 

Standard 'NBC' English isn't too bad. Brian Williams sounds intelligent.

Rural American accents have been faded somewhat by TV and radio exposure. Nobody sounds like my grandparents used to. It was almost a true dialect, created by cultural and physical isolation. Most Southern states used to have at least three or four different ones.

Around the city of Lynchburg, Virginia, the phrase "about the house" used to sound like "abooot the hoooose." Last time I was there, I heard none of that.

 

I was told by a Bostonian that I had a southern drawl, that's because I grew up in Clearwater, fl

 

You have a good point.

I could easily see how TV and radio would diminish regional accents all over the country (and world).

 

Well, I'd like to think I am. lol He and I share the same first and last name, but I definitely have a southern drawl; hopefully, without sounding like an idiot. lol

Sidenote: I would almost be willing to bet my life that NBC's Brian Williams smokes a decent amount of weed, though I may be wrong.

 

That sounds like a Scottish accent.

 

yes, I used to work at a call center and talked to people all over the country. It was interesting to note the lack of regional dialect and accent amongst people my age versus people from older generations who often had very thick regional accents.

that area was probably heavily populated by Scottish settlers back in the day

 

It's that whole Buffer Colony lineage in Georgia. Quite a bit of England still lives in the language there.

 

the english language belongs in england. prior to the european invasion, there is no place it was spoken in the western hemisphere.

 

So we're still in the 1500s?