"people don't have accents anymore"
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"people don't have accents anymore"
is a lot like
"kids these days don't know what good music is"
Widely believed, often said, but the moment you get perspective? Totally false.
"The accent is disappearing" no... it's becoming more similar to the way that *you* talk. So you can't hear it anymore. This is fascinating to me since obviously I'm not immune.
From the right perspective everyone has a heavy accent. From yet another perspective everyone has no accent at all.
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"people don't have accents anymore"
is a lot like
"kids these days don't know what good music is"
Widely believed, often said, but the moment you get perspective? Totally false.
"The accent is disappearing" no... it's becoming more similar to the way that *you* talk. So you can't hear it anymore. This is fascinating to me since obviously I'm not immune.
From the right perspective everyone has a heavy accent. From yet another perspective everyone has no accent at all.
@futurebird
I had a girlfriend from Rhode Island who said I sounded like a cowboy. To this day I have no idea what that means. -
"people don't have accents anymore"
is a lot like
"kids these days don't know what good music is"
Widely believed, often said, but the moment you get perspective? Totally false.
"The accent is disappearing" no... it's becoming more similar to the way that *you* talk. So you can't hear it anymore. This is fascinating to me since obviously I'm not immune.
From the right perspective everyone has a heavy accent. From yet another perspective everyone has no accent at all.
Interesting topic.
Don't we see a homogenization of local accents due to
- nation wide or even international broadcasting and streaming
- increased mobility
?Like there is a national baseline of a language, and regional speech is moving ever closer to this baseline?
Back in the day, even some village clusters had separate dialects. To the point where you struggled to ask for directions. Over the last 40 years, this seems to have become less pronounced.
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Interesting topic.
Don't we see a homogenization of local accents due to
- nation wide or even international broadcasting and streaming
- increased mobility
?Like there is a national baseline of a language, and regional speech is moving ever closer to this baseline?
Back in the day, even some village clusters had separate dialects. To the point where you struggled to ask for directions. Over the last 40 years, this seems to have become less pronounced.
"Don't we see a homogenization of local accents due to"
Yes. This seems to be a real trend, but at the same time accents continue to evolve and diverge. There are multiple vectors of pressure and locations of development.
