Why do people hate the American accent?

because we talk slowly

those autistic flaws you mentioned are basically shortcuts made from being more experienced with the language

Only anglos hate American accents.

>>71490000
>0000
wew
anyway I still hate shortcuts I almost never use em

>>71489897
literally no one thinks this. any foreign speaker thinks american english is the easiest to understand

Where is that one nasal and singsonging accent specifically from. That one is terrible.

Because it is usually being spoken by Americans.

>>71489897
>American accent
which one though?
You can't say someone from NYC has the same accent as someone from TX

I hate the southern American accent

>>71489897
I prefere American Engish over British English to be honest
Somebody who speaks American accent sounds like a decent, hardworking person with conservative values. And somebody who speaks British sounds like a stuck up cunt

>>71489897

I actually unironically prefer the "neutral" American accent. Much more smoother and cooler than let's say RP.

>>71489897
I don't know much about American accents, but the Southern one sounds just as unclear as the other English accents

>>71490511
because that's the one you learn, the American accent is just as fucked up as the British accent, people just don't learn the latter one from movies, TV and video games so it's become the weird one to you.

because I can't into R in American English

>>71491353
>hear brit news
>hmm this is easy to understand

>hear brits talking irl
>utter fucking gibberish, makes me nope eternally

whereas Americans are easy to understand in both situations.

Because you are all so fucking loud. All your tourists are so obvious because you can hear them 20 meters away.

>>71491468
that's because the ones with heavy accents don't ever leave the US desu

>>71491494
What do tourists from New Zealand have to do with the American accent?

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>>71491494
WHAT

I CAN'T HEAR YOU

>>71489897
You can't have an english accent in English language. Do chinese people speak Chinese with a chinese accent? NO!

>>71491521
but there are no "heavy" accents in the US except hillbillies living in the Appalachians or something, everyone else speaks virtually the same.

in Britain you have all the regionals accents that sound like ancient alium speak to foreigners.

>>71491494
We have some of the worst tourists in the world

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>>71491569
>Being this stupid

>>71491581
>everyone else speaks virtually the same
No

Listen to someone from New England and then listen to someone from the Midwest/Texas/South/West Coast

British accents are such clusterfucks They have a million different varieties and the faggy sounding RP.

Overtly thick American accents do sound pretty bad though.

>>71491581
>there are no "heavy" accents in the US except hillbillies living in the Appalachians or something
incorrect
even Canada has some pretty heavy accents
it's just that in the US all the richer people who can afford to go to Europe have all adopted that generic boring midwest American dialect, in Britain any unintelligible working class arsehole can afford to book a bucket flight for the weekend to Rome or Venice.

>>71491624
I have, you sound the same to me

inb4 you link me to a page that explains how you call it "pop" or "soda" depending on the region.

>>71491666
but I have been to the US, even blacks are easier to understand than brits, you just have more history and more variants and dialects.

>>71491606
Exact opposite senpai
Worst are Britbongs, Russians and Balkaniggers. Best are Americans and Germans
t. Waiter in Prague

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>>71491720
>you sound the same to me
Hmph

And it's more than just pop, it's pronunciation of vowels too

Perhaps you should actually go and find some dialects instead of just watching generic shows or movies coming from Hollywood?

>>71491720
>I have been to the US
where did you go?

>>71491581
boston accent and deep southern accent is annoying as fuck to listen to

>>71491720
In some regions we don't pronounce the 'R' or pronounce 'caught' like 'cot', but that's the end of it.

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>>71491581
>everyone else speaks virtually the same.

>>71491786
I have been to the US lmao I just told you.

and yes, people in NY spoke different than people in Illinois or Ohio, but overall you all sound American, there's nothing comparable to the difference in accent between somebody from Liverpool and somebody from London, and if the accent is heavy they are both fucking difficult to understand for somebody who learned English in school. "Pure" British English like you hear in the news is not difficult and everyone in America speaks in that slower US English that makes it more clear to foreigners.

>>71491814
Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland, Georgia, Florida, Washington DC, might be forgetting some.

>>71491864
Southern is the only truly distinct one, like that you instantly go "aha that guy is from the South", you never go "aha that guy is from Iowa", etc.

>>71491872
yeh, also the overall tone might change a bit, like New Yorker accent sounds more "aggressive" than midwestern (to me at least).

>>71491864
Deep southern accent is hot. Euros especially think so

>>71491951
>sound American

What does this mean?
>ignore flag

>>71491967
it'sthe best tbqh

>>71491951
but there's different varieties of the southern accent. a deep south one would sound different from someone from texas, which would also be different from someone like tennesse

boston accent is probably the most distinct accent in my opinion

>>71492002
Boston is the worst accent

>>71491967
whenever i hear deep southn accent, all i can think of is please speak faster

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>>71492030
>>71491864
Fuck off, Bawston Strawng!

>>71492002
never been to Boston, also yes you are right, you can't expect me to mention every single dialect since English is not even my mother tongue though, I'm telling you my overall experiences being a foreigner in the US and Britain.

>>71491980
That you all sound like you come from the same macroregion, and Brits sound like they come from different microregions because their accent varies a lot more and you can tell they didn't spread out along huge territories fairly recently so their accents have developed locally for centuries upon centuries.

>>71491353
>t. Glaswegian

>>71489897
arr sound the same

>all these autists getting upset that America is more centralized than the UK
Get over it, I've been all over the country from Miami to San Francisco and Oregon to New York, we all speak pretty much the same and if you go to the boonies then yeah you'll hear something a bit different but the second people don't understand you they switch to the standard immediately

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>>71492071
tonic................

>>71492115
There's no such thing as "better sounding" language.

Just because American's have less regional difference doesn't mean we have no accent or that our accent is "better".

This is a 100% subjective issue.

>>71492245
I never said either one is better though?

>>71492031
Things are much slower over there.

>>71492190
No the UK is much more centralized than the US

>>71492348
???

Because English spoken in America simply sounds (sorry for what I'm about to say) absolutely retarded. Alas, the majority of speakers has a way of speaking that is just unpleasant, by exaggerating the 'r' sound or simply being annoying to the ear. British English doesn't sound forced on the opposite.

Abuse of incorrect expressions (literally, would of, or abuse of 'like'), frying voice phenomenon doesn't help one bit, although it is not a matter of accent.

>>71491967

I have completely lost the southern accent of my grandparents and parents, and it kind of makes me sad desu. On the upper hand I speak with clear diction and at a moderate pace coupled with a slightly deep voice, so I'm easy mode for foreigners trying to make conversation.

>>71492314
still... they should speak faster

>>71492115
lol sorry, i legit thought you were ireland and was like come o you couldve at least differentiate some southern... 'pologies

>>71489897
>>Australian/NZ accent
>* Adding -ie suffix to everything (brekkie, barbie, tazzie, mozzie, muzzie)

How exactly is that just an anz thing when everyone else does it?

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>>71491951
>Ohio

>>71492643
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZzgAjjuqZM

>it was actually nice tho 2bh

>>71491581
>but there are no "heavy" accents in the US except hillbillies living in the Appalachians or something, everyone else speaks virtually the same.

All of this is a complete lie, any american could tell you. Just because you hear an accent on tv it doesnt mean thats how people usually speak.

>>71492679
for the third time I have been there multiple times and I never had any difficulty understanding any accent. In Britain I spent ten minutes trying to understand a waiter asking me if I wanted cutlery when I went to eat in a pub. I suspect you might be a yank getting upset (why?) over it but to foreigners Americans are definitely easier to understand irl.

>>71492678
Tbh Ohio isn't as awful as everyone makes it out to be, or at least columbus isn't. I don't know how people live in rural Ohio past the age of 18 though, I think I would have killed myself if I stayed.

>>71492775
You dont think that Ive been to both the UK and the USA? The US is just as bad, not everyone has a general american accent

>>71492793
rural Ohio looks the same as the rest of the rural places in the Midwest (the ones I visited at least).

dunno though, for us Europoor city dwellers rural America feels very cozy.

I was triggered by the Upper Peninsula in Michigan for some reason tho, the trees were too thicc and it felt too isolated, I felt like I wanted to go back to my cramped city here.

>>71492830
but they do.

inb4 videos of that weird accent people have in that canadian island in the middle of the Atlantic or similar.

For an English person used to hearing the English accent, the sudden change to the American one is quite violent.

Also, most of the times we hear American accents we have access to volume control, which sadly isn't the case in real life interactions.

>>71492906
>inb4 videos of that weird accent people have in that canadian island in the middle of the Atlantic or similar.

Who cares about some stupid island when for example I could talk about the entire south or parts of the north east? idiot

>>71492992
I did mention the South, why are you so upset about the fact that Americans don't have as much regional variety as a place that has existed for several centuries more?

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>>71492202
Tonic indeed.

>tfw boring non-accent
I don't even have the stereotypical CHI accent to flavor things up

>>71493048

limey there feels u gettin cheeky mate, wants u ta bugger owff

>>71493048
I didnt mention regional variety at all. I said a very large portion of it is almost incomprehensible because of regions such as the south and parts of the north east. If you want me to expand on my point, approximately 114m people live in the south and you are saying that america is in general much easier to understand which is absurd and provably wrong. What you are talking about are things like california and tv programmes.

>>71492643
Kings island and cedar point

>>71493169
>tv programmes
>look ma I said it again xd

it's the fourth time I've told you I have been there myself, in person, talking to people, doing things and hearing accents myself, NOT through the tv. could you stop saying that I need to stop watch tv?

> saying that america is in general much easier to understand

to me it is, it's slower, more clear and adheres to the rules we were taught in school more than Liverpool or Glasgow accent for sure. even Southern drawl, being more difficult than the other variants, it's still slow as fuck and it's not full of dialect words and inflexions.

>provably wrong

how are you going to prove that?

>california

never been there

>>71493329
>to me it is, it's slower, more clear and adheres to the rules we were taught in school more than Liverpool or Glasgow accent for sure.

Liverpool and Glasgow are just single cities

>even Southern drawl, being more difficult than the other variants, it's still slow as fuck and it's not full of dialect words and inflexions.

I dont think you have ever been there or even met someone from there

>>71493329
>>71493371
And what do you mean 4th time? I think you are getting me mixed up with someone else

>>71493329
here's how the majority of us in LA sound like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDRNaAxryu8

>>71493371
>I MUST be right this can't be >:(

I have been to Georgia, people spoke with a southern accent but I was generally fine, it's not that fucking difficult. are you southerner living in the UK perhaps? you sound way too protective of American dialect for a brit.

>>71493400
I listed the places I've been to some posts above because people keep making the argument that "I need to stop watching tv".

>>71493414
kek

>>71493441
>I have been to Georgia, people spoke with a southern accent but I was generally fine, it's not that fucking difficult

Perhaps you merely visited the state capital area and came off with a very obviously wrong impression?

>are you southerner living in the UK perhaps?

Im from south east england

>>71493518
well if you're a brit you're obviously biased and every dialect in Britain will sound more familiar to you. and conversely you'll feel more alienated by American accents.

for me, a person who was taught English in school, American accents are way easier to understand, and even where there's a somewhat heavy accent they are never as intelligible as some accents I heard in Britain.

>>71493270

>Kings island

Too many pedros

>>71493371

Strong, challenging southern drawls are largely concentrated in very rural, middle-of-nowhere regions. I don't imagine italbro visited any middle-of-nowheres, so his description of the suburban and urban population centers of the south, which makes up a good chunk of southerners, seems accurate.

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>>71493072
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbK4cL3QSc0

>>71493601
>well if you're a brit you're obviously biased and every dialect in Britain will sound more familiar to you. and conversely you'll feel more alienated by American accents.

I can understand difficult accents from my own country very easily but that doesnt mean that I dont know how difficult they are. But the same is also true of american accents as well

>for me, a person who was taught English in school, American accents are way easier to understand, and even where there's a somewhat heavy accent they are never as intelligible as some accents I heard in Britain.

Ive met quite a lot of american southerners and the only person from the south that I have met that has a generally understandable accent was from Birmingham in Alabama which is the largest area in the state. The similarly difficult accents in the UK are from either small single areas such as newcastle or largely uninhabited rural areas such as the west country and the scottish highlands. Thats why theyre both around the same rather than one being much easier to understand than the other in general.

>>71493741
>around the same

I don't agree with that but I can't prove it so we can leave it at that if you want.

>>71493779
alright fair enough lol

>>71493329
There is a lot of slang and different terms in southern speech

>>71493805
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeUzTFWxvQE

sure :)

>>71493779
relevant @1:10

>>71493849

Fuuuck man I was waiting for someone to post Scottish accent. It's so gorgeous lol.

>>71493622
What do you mean by too many Pedros

>>71489897
>* NZ can't say "a" and "i" correctly
What do you mean?

>>71493894

Mestizos

>>71493886
oops forgot link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYAqrKqJg1c

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>>71490000
Do we? As a general rule, the further south you go the slower they talk. But I think some of us in the Midwest, who are sometimes considered to have a "neutral" American accent, talk at a reasonable pace.

>>71493441
>I have been to Georgia, people spoke with a southern accent but I was generally fine
I bet you went to Atlanta and never left the city limits. Actual southerners are a minority in Atlanta.

>>71493965
In Cincinnati?

>>71489897
because they talk like whiney retards most of the time

the southern accent's fine though

>>71494030

Uh yeah man. What did you have a different experience? lol

I thought minority groups congregating at amusement parks was an established meme.

>>71491624
people from New England speak the best english in the US.

>>71493849
jesus christ I do not understand what they're saying.

>>71494374
You know how people when traveling to foreign countries can sit and speak a foreign language about people around them and no one will know? Scotts can do that in an English speaking country.

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https://www.nku.edu/~ocallaghant/LingVariation/AccentParagraph.htm

http://vocaroo.com/

You know what you must do.

>>71489897
It's kind of weird that there are people who like the american accent. like damn every american is always like LMAO BRITISH ACCENT IS SO COOL!!!!

>>71494145
Don't remember seeing a lot of them at 6 flags in illinois or cedar point

>>71491624
Draw a 20 mile circle around Manchester. There will be more differnce between accents in that circle than the entirety of north America

>>71494800
Brits are salty because their version of English used too be the most widespread

>>71491967
>>71492030
Agree with both of these

>>71494905
well to be fair I'd be salty too. the american accent can be really good but honestly a whole lot of us mumble our words and kind of butcher the language.

if you can stop saying "like" every other word and "uhm", then you do really sound authoritative.

>>71489897
>It's the best, clearest
I hate when americans prononce a "man" as "men"

>>71494982
I can honestly say I have no idea what you mean.

>>71495028
https://ru.forvo.com/word/man/#en
All Britishers do pronounce of word "man" correct, only Americans do pronounce of word "man" as "men" in plural form.

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I hate the dumb sheep shagger accent, sounds like a bunch of garbled slurs spewing out from someone's asshole.

>>71495147
Man
>https://ru.forvo.com/word/man/#en

Men
>https://ru.forvo.com/word/men/#en

So you're saying the user Slick pronouncing "man" is the same as ManHub pronouncing "men?"

>>71494850

Seems as though northern Ohio is less diverse, at least where I have visited.

>>71491666
Do you even know what the Midwestern accent sounds like? It is not the generic American accent most people think of. It gets pretty heavy depending on the person.

>>71495680
Yeah it is

>>71492906
The fucking Upper Peninsula should be it's own little city state. Fuckers are weird.

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>>71495680
the sarah palin accent

>>71496135
You want Bobby's mom from Bobby's World if you want the real deal

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>>71496190
why didn't young me find her annoying at all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAavaZqDaXE

>>71493414

Americans are pretty good at switching to a more standard English when speaking in a professional environment.

Speaking to a client: "Yes sir, absolutely."

Speaking to your buddy: "Aww for shurr dude. I gotchu man."

t. Southern Californian

>>71496721
>Aww for shurr dude. I gotchu man.
Pathetic

>>71496721
so like the rest of the world?

>>71496721
>Aww for shurr dude. I gotchu man
never heard that set of words stung together like that ever in my life

t. southern california

>>71496721
Most people from every country are.

>>71496721
so like everyone around the world ever?

>>71496889
He is a retard from California. Be nice to him

>>71497601
naw, i'm from california and we deserve it base on him

>>71490000
>it's authoritative
Hahahahaha no

>>71496798
I hear it almost every day
t. southern californian with friends