Or at least neutral?
Why does American English sound the most "normal"?
Evan Long
Owen Lee
Because it's vulgar
Ethan James
because it's the version of the language that you're most familiar with (assuming). If you consume a lot of american media, you'll most likely come to expect the accent to be the "default" of the language, rather than british, australian, canadian, etc..
Justin Myers
because we export the media you consume
Austin Nelson
California english is the most neutral and well enunciated of all english accents, change my mind.
Tyler Flores
It sounds fucked up to an english ear
David Price
i've grown to disagree with that, listening to Brits talk sounds so much more natural and has a more comprehensive flow. you can also tell that Brits read more than Americans, everything that you say to an American has to be chopped down to its most basic, novice format.
Grayson Russell
Because you hear it from the films. It's just as derived as any other form of english.
Jason Perry
>listening to Brits talk sounds so much more natural and has a more comprehensive flow
If that were true, it would be easier for Americans to fake British accents than the other way around but instead it's the opposite. Brits can do convincing American accents with little effort while Americans can't do the bongs to save their life (because it's unnatural).
Bentley Reed
American English is like English spoken by ESLs. Its a continental european language with english vocab. It's not proper English
It's far more literal and every word has to be annunciated to maximise literal understanding.
British english is full of idioms, metaphor, double meanings, word play and uses more vocab.
and i think our creative use and better command of english is one of them. we can say things much more beautifully than americans or aussies can.
the last thing this guy says is literally shakespearean level prose:
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Joseph Reed
Alexander Martinez
the ability to impersonate is not something that just anyone can do, you have to practice it at length.
Nathan Williams
B'cuz y'r just yoost t'hearin' it.
Owen Nelson
>most well enunciated
Californians can’t even pronounce cot and caught differently. Automatic disqualification. My vote goes for New York/Inland North accents
Nolan Miller
Becarse we downt tawrk loik this
Nicholas Lewis
American english is easy to imitate because you just have to annunciate each syllable in a rising tone and speak nasally.
British is harder because of the consonant dropping and 'falling tone'/sliding between words without fully pronouncing them
American: HAI GAIS GRAYD WEA-THURR TOO-DAY RAIT?
british: alri lads gud wevurt'day innit
Hudson Morgan
The Brits actually annunciate properly, something Americans don’t even come close to doing.
Kayden Reyes
Other way round. You over-annunciate so english language loses its sovl
Daniel Rodriguez
>My vote goes for New York/Inland North accents
>Neu yowk siddy ayyy im waulkin hyea!
yah.
Evan Thompson
our accent is rhotic
Cameron Rivera
You mean the ones who try to pretend they aren't low class chavs and affect an upper class accent.
Lucas Murphy
Clear enunciation versus slurring has nothing to do with dialects, and everything to do with formal-informal speech. American English definitely has slurred speech in regular conversation.
Isaac Brown
Wrong and also you're all low t beta cucks
Eli Hill
Americans talk like they're in high school forever, Brits develop a much more refined vocabulary.
James Cox
british english is more natural but it sounds weird to ESLs because american english is more standardised also strong dialect like scouse or glaswegian english can sound like a foreign language to ESLs
Evan Garcia
howdy pardner
*slaps your knee*
Christian Cox
Americans don't speak English, we speak our own language. English is incomprehensible to us
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Jose Rogers
There are plenty of rhotic New Yorkers. A lot of younger Long Islanders will pronounce the r at the end of a syllable.
Nolan Richardson
Wrong. Americans speak english way more literally and way more annunciated. Even posh accents slur
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>i dunknow ifyuvbeen to PEPPApig worl... well it was fantast- i was a bit hazy (about what) i'dfind at PEPPApig worl
I could beat you
Andrew Morgan
Because you've grown up consuming American media.
Jeremiah Edwards
The american accent is built for esls to understand our island language. Its the accent of the masses of polacks, germans, italians, slaves and mexicans
Jacob Gutierrez
>the ability to impersonate is not something that just anyone can do, you have to practice it at length.
I doubt it, here I'll do it right now.