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30 Apr 2025, 2:53 pm

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Crikey mate, ya gotta type with your true accent.

Wait.

Buddy, you want people to know where your from eh? You don't want them hosers thinking you're a Yank eh? Lemme tell ya all aboot it, it's a right pain in the backside getting mistaken for a Yank. I mean, wtf is a mile? Buddy, ima need you to convert that to understandable units eh.


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30 Apr 2025, 3:06 pm

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How do you know I'm not faking being English

You could be, but I never met a Yank who could do Yorkshire like you can. Objectively speaking, you're either genuine or a stunningly clever fake. I'll wager ten taters you're genuine.



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30 Apr 2025, 3:07 pm

Well I'm not from Yorkshire for a kick off


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30 Apr 2025, 3:12 pm

She used to do it though didn't she. She got picked on for using English phrases so she used to use American words all the time

I think that's what forced me into over doing it with the English sometimes because I hate seeing people get bullied in that way

Also to the other extreme we had the other one who used to pretend to be English all the time. I mean the lies just used to flow to be fair so they could have been from anywhere in the world


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30 Apr 2025, 3:36 pm

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Yes seriously I didn't know. You don't write with an accent, or maybe I've just not seen you use words like "colour," "favourite," and "crikey." With BB it's blindingly obvious from her turn of phrase. Most members are Yanks so statistically it seemed likely you were too.


Yeah, I don't really write with a British accent and though I do use British words with the added 'u' as you give examples of, I don't use those particular words too often.

I remember when I was part of a different autistic group, many years ago on Facebook, they all thought I was American before I set them straight. :lol:

We should all talk about colours and our favourite things more often. It would help us sort out the sheep from the goats, and generate an atmosphere conducive to joy, which may be useful on a thread about unhappiness.

I cringe when I hear English people say "Briddish." It's not as if they live in Bridland. Yanks and the Irish are forgiven because they can't help it. Alan Partridge pissed an English DJ off by questioning his use of d's where they should have been t's, and called him a dwad and a cund.

Did you know that the American accent is closer to the the original English accent than the modern English accent is? Apparently the UK English accent has drifted from what it used to be in the emigration days, and the English folks who got to the US remained more faithful to the original. At least that's what I read somewhere.

Back on topic at last: What made me unhappy today? I forgot to plug in the hotplates and that derailed my glorious, finely tuned breakfast-in-10-minutes procedure. But the results were passable, even if delayed by a whole 3 minutes, and I soon got over the tragedy. I should have more electrical sockets.



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30 Apr 2025, 3:41 pm

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Well I'm not from Yorkshire for a kick off

I know, you're from Lancashire, but you can do Yorkshire so much better than most Yanks that you must have spent a long time hearing it.



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30 Apr 2025, 3:44 pm

Oh I agree there are places in the states where I can sometimes pick out a northern English accent and you can defo hear the Irish

Probably a lot of people from the same places here stuck together when they landed there and that's why

It is interesting and my ear does cock when it hears an accent

I'm sad because I've got a sore throat


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30 Apr 2025, 3:46 pm

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Well I'm not from Yorkshire for a kick off

I know, you're from Lancashire, but you can do Yorkshire so much better than most Yanks that you must have spent a long time hearing it.


I spent a lot of time with girls from all over Yorkshire when I was a kid and I have been told that I sound Yorkshire but that's usually by people who aren't from Yorkshire


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30 Apr 2025, 3:53 pm

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She used to do it though didn't she. She got picked on for using English phrases so she used to use American words all the time

I think that's what forced me into over doing it with the English sometimes because I hate seeing people get bullied in that way

Also to the other extreme we had the other one who used to pretend to be English all the time. I mean the lies just used to flow to be fair so they could have been from anywhere in the world

Well done sticking up for the victim of racist bullying. I used to worry about my English accent provoking racism against me, but the locals seem to like hearing it, except that they can't understand me sometimes. And you can get into terrible trouble if the conversation turns to braces and suspenders.



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30 Apr 2025, 3:54 pm

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Did you know that the American accent is closer to the the original English accent than the modern English accent is? Apparently the UK English accent has drifted from what it used to be in the emigration days, and the English folks who got to the US remained more faithful to the original. At least that's what I read somewhere.


I believe that's a bit of an oversimplification, although it has some truth at it's core. English accents now are pretty consistently non-rhotic, but that wasn't always true. A lot of American accents retain rhoticism, although traditionally a lot of east coast and southern accents are non-rhotic.

Foundational American accents would have gone though significant dialect levelling because of settlers coming from all over Britain, so even in that period they wouldn't have represented a specific accent or dialect from Britain but instead a hodgepodge.

But, even if American accents retain some features that have long been abandoned in England, American accents have also have a quite awhile to evolve on their own. There's probably some American accents that sound closer to British accents of the 1700s, but with innovations that wouldn't have existed within Britain back in the day; also worth noting: there's ever been a single American or British accent so it's all broad generalizations.


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30 Apr 2025, 3:59 pm

ToughDiamond wrote:
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She used to do it though didn't she. She got picked on for using English phrases so she used to use American words all the time

I think that's what forced me into over doing it with the English sometimes because I hate seeing people get bullied in that way

Also to the other extreme we had the other one who used to pretend to be English all the time. I mean the lies just used to flow to be fair so they could have been from anywhere in the world

Well done sticking up for the victim of racist bullying. I used to worry about my English accent provoking racism against me, but the locals seem to like hearing it, except that they can't understand me sometimes. And you can get into terrible trouble if the conversation turns to braces and suspenders.


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30 Apr 2025, 4:08 pm

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Did you know that the American accent is closer to the the original English accent than the modern English accent is? Apparently the UK English accent has drifted from what it used to be in the emigration days, and the English folks who got to the US remained more faithful to the original. At least that's what I read somewhere.


I believe that's a bit of an oversimplification, although it has some truth at it's core. English accents now are pretty consistently non-rhotic, but that wasn't always true. A lot of American accents retain rhoticism, although traditionally a lot of east coast and southern accents are non-rhotic.

Foundational American accents would have gone though significant dialect levelling because of settlers coming from all over Britain, so even in that period they wouldn't have represented a specific accent or dialect from Britain but instead a hodgepodge.

But, even if American accents retain some features that have long been abandoned in England, American accents have also have a quite awhile to evolve on their own. There's probably some American accents that sound closer to British accents of the 1700s, but with innovations that wouldn't have existed within Britain back in the day; also worth noting: there's ever been a single American or British accent so it's all broad generalizations.

Interesting stuff, language evolution. I think eventually there'll just be one accent, but it could take a very long time.



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30 Apr 2025, 4:16 pm

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Interesting stuff, language evolution. I think eventually there'll just be one accent, but it could take a very long time.


I don't believe it's likely to happen, but mass-media makes it more likely. People's accents end up being influenced by the people they hear on TV and radio (or similar), so if we reach a point where everyone's listening to the same handful of influential people, it could potentially happen.

That said, I believe there will always be people who consciously reject the prestige accent and instead choose to speak distinctly as part of their identities. In particular amongst groups that feel left out of mainstream society and kids.


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30 Apr 2025, 4:17 pm

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Well I'm not from Yorkshire for a kick off

I know, you're from Lancashire, but you can do Yorkshire so much better than most Yanks that you must have spent a long time hearing it.


I spent a lot of time with girls from all over Yorkshire when I was a kid and I have been told that I sound Yorkshire but that's usually by people who aren't from Yorkshire

Yes you can't fool the natives so easily.

A toilet cleaner in a little Cornish town thought I was from Liverpool. But in those days I was using more scouse than I do now.

On my first trip to Arkansas an old man said "I shot me a 'coon the other day." I was quite worried till I found out he was abbreviation "racoon." I still didn't like it though. I can see it from the farmers' point of view but I don't think I'll ever be comfy about killing animals.



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30 Apr 2025, 4:23 pm



If trash pandas were getting in the garbage I'd probably shoot them too. Goddamn rakins, they look like cats with long beaky noses and eat all the dope.


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30 Apr 2025, 4:29 pm

They aren’t as bad as skunks. I saved a skunk who was stuck in my trash can once, and it sprayed me. a**hole.


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