English. English. English.

[BlueStar]

Just because I am American doesnt mean I have an accent. You would recognize me as American because of my lack of an accent. Any Americans that can back me up here?

Of course I fucking would, I'd recognise your AMERICAN way of speaking - your ACCENT! Americans clip certain words, you have certain ways of saying vowel sounds. Unless you speak like a robot, you have an accent! Does an Australian who doesn't speak like any one particular part of Australia not have an accent?

Record a tape of your voice, by all means. It's a bit of an insular and slightly ignorant attitude to think "My way of speaking is 'normal', any variations of it are accents.'

Do you say "oregano" the British way or the American way? Or 'neither' because you supposedly don't have any accent at all?

EDIT: People would say that I don't have much of an accent because I don't have much of a local accent. But if I spoke to you you'd immediately know I was British. Do I have no accent or a British one?

 

[impizkit]

This conversation is over. I never said it was normal or right, just lack of accent. I dont think Im better than anyone. And to be honest with you, BlueStar, I love British accents. But this has gotten out of hand and without anyone to back me up, Im out.

 

[BobTheJoeBob]

Just because I am American doesnt mean I have an accent. You would recognize me as American because of my lack of an accent. Any Americans that can back me up here?

The way you speak, is your accent, so unless you don't speak, you have an accent.

 

[Hells Malice]

Saying you have no accent is like saying Americans speak the one true English.

...which is kind of typical to be honest.


You have an American accent, get over it.

 

[SinHarvest24]

This conversation is over. I never said it was normal or right, just lack of accent. I dont think Im better than anyone. And to be honest with you, BlueStar, I love British accents. But this has gotten out of hand and without anyone to back me up, Im out.

 

[BlueStar]

And to be honest with you, BlueStar, I love British accents.

I don't have an accent, I just speak like a normal guy. From Britain

 

[Cyan]

Well, I'm using Internet Ingrish, it's nice too

At French school we learned British english in secondary, but then I don't remember. I guess it changed with the teacher's country origin.
I started playing video games (99% in American) and learned quicker and more things by playing than what they taught me.

School was great for grammar lessons, verb conjugation and little vocabulary, but most of what I know now is either from video games/internet/watching movie & anime with subtitles.
So, it's all a mixture of cultures and origins...

I don't know which one is best, I usually use the included American english dictionary in Firefox so I use that one to correct what I'm typing, and then tend to write the American version of the words.

And to be honest with you, BlueStar, I love British accents.

I don't have an accent, I just speak like a normal guy. From Britain

Do you have only one accent from all over the Britain?

In France, every region have his own accent, even some towns have their unique accent and unique words/dialect.
Some regions don't have accent, when other have it. The accent is easy to learn and automatically change after few days of living at a new place. After speaking with someone with a pronounced accent, we tend to talk the same way. it's funny

We know where the person is coming from only by his way of speaking. I like accent, and usually people like it too, it's "cute".

edit: also, we love British accent when you speak french

 

[BlueStar]

Do you have only one accent from all over the Britain?

In France, every region have his own accent, even some towns have their unique accent and unique words/dialect.
Some regions don't have accent, when other have it. The accent is easy to learn and automatically change after few days of living at a new place. After speaking with someone with a pronounced accent, we tend to talk the same way. it's funny

We know where the person is coming from only by his way of speaking. I like accent, and usually people like it too, it's "cute".

edit: also, we love British accent when you speak french

I'm being facetious because of the whole "I don't have an accent, I speak normally because I'm an American" thing. There are loads of accents in the UK, you only have to travel a short distance for there to be quite a variation - geordie, scouse brummie, cockney... I live in Newcastle, but I can tell the difference with someone who lives in Sudnerland or Ashington (Where they speak some kind of genetically modified super geordie: Here's some Ashington jokes - "A lorry load of terrapins has overturned in Ashinton. Local police say it's turle mayhem." "I went to a hairdressers in Ashington and asked for a perm. The hairdresser said "Ah wandard lurnley as a cloud...")

My Dad is a French, german and Spanish teacher and although you'd probably nail him as British even though he's fluent, the accent he speaks French is is very different to the one he speaks English in. Even when he says things like "Er" and "Um" it's that very deep, throaty French sound.

 

[Cyan]

Where they speak some kind of genetically modified super geordie

genetically

I didn't get the joke in the two sentences, sorry.
Other British users will certainly understand them.

France have completely different dialects too. It's like a different languages, not French anymore.
They even made a famous anime in Breton (Mysterious cities of gold) and broadcasted it on TV.
There are so many things to learn.

 

[prowler]

It's like a different languages, not French anymore.

You could say the same about some British accents.

 

[BlueStar]

Acekard instructions in Geordie dialect

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[_Chaz_]

I prefer the American variety. I never find myself pronouncing a word like "color" as "colour".

 

[BlueStar]

Uh... Colour and color are pronounced the same way, only the spelling is different. How do you think we say it? Culower?

 

[_Chaz_]

Uh... Colour and color are pronounced the same way, only the spelling is different. How do you think we say it? Culower?

If they're pronounced the same way, then I see no reason for the debates that always spring up.
And yes, yes I do.

 

[BlueStar]

It's said 'culler' or something similar depending on your accent whether its got a U in it or not. The debate's still pretty pointless, but its a spelling debate rather than a pronunciation debate

 

[JustChillin1414]

Canadian English

+1

 

[boombox]

Wish there was just one way of spelling English to be honest, makes things difficult for the people learning it, and more tricky for students using the web for their work (where American and British English are everywhere).

 

[Necron]

I have a mixed way. In school, they taught us the british way (my teacher prefered it), but I learned by myself playing videogames/watching movies.
Personally, I prefer the way British people talk, I understand it more.

 

[Fear Zoa]

I prefer American English because i'm an american

Although I'm quite familiar with British English as well I'm not one of those people who accuses colour, analogue, matt, or tonne of being wrong.
I can at least do that much to avoid making myself sound like a jackass on the internet as if the united States created English

 

[Shinigami357]

Spelling-wise, I don't really care if it's British or American [quite fun to confuse people sometimes]. Both systems [for lack of a better term] have their own little nuances, of course. Though when spoken, I love the British variant more. It just rings of the sophistication and depth, IMHO [of course it can be a tad confusing sometimes, aye, lads?]. In school, we were taught mostly the American system.

Really depends on you, I guess...


PS
There's also like an idea here in the Philippines to use English as the primary language in schools. Dunno how that'll end up....