Do non-native speakers use the American way of referring to collective nouns (where they're always referred to in the singular - the team is playing well, the enemy is defeated) or the British way (Where depending on context they can be singular or plural - The government is in trouble, the team are fighting amongst themselves, both equally correct)
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impizkit said:
BobTheJoeBob said:
impizkit said:
I love the term American Accent. There are multiple American accents, just like British. I have no accent. I live in an area of the US that has no accent. Straight English.
You can't not have an accent.
That spoken from someone that has one, likely. There truly is such a thing as no accent. I dont have a southern accent, Minnesota/Wisconsin accent or a New England accent or any other American Accent. If you were American, you would know what I mean.
I'd be willing to bet that if I met you, I'd know you were an American by the way you said words. How is that not an accent?
The closest thing to 'no accent' would be Received Pronunciation. Which unless you're a narrator from a 1930s British Pathe newsreel, I'd be willing to bet you don't speak.