Bruce LaLiLuLeLo
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This is a thread for discussing a favourite autistic topic of mine, accents. Ignoring foreign languages, the English language itself has so many vocab and pronunciation differences based on region/ethnic group. This thread will be for discussion and learning.
Starting with the classics, the British accent. It's of several subtypes but the most prominent are RP and cockney. RP is the one used for official purposes and is generally the most accurate to English pronunciation. Regional accents tend to twist things like "Yorkshire" into "Yorkshuh" while RP goes with the entire word as it's spelt. It's sort of held up as the premier way of speaking English across the world due to the associations with royalty and upper class behaviour. Cockney is a bit harder to get the hang of as it requires nasality and twisting pronunciation. It's nearly extinct and is almost practiced only by old people but when they speak cockney, it sounds very good. Michael caine is probably the most prominent cockney speaker and its not even completely accurate to old fashioned cockney cause he mixes in a bit of RP. Most of RP and British English as a whole relies on variations of the "O" and the "uh" sounds compared to American English which relies on the "ah" and "ae" a lot more. Irish and Scottish are minor footnotes, irish relies on cutting the vowels short except for the "ai" and "oo" sounds which is used everywhere, scottish has a bit of nasality and just sounds like a tribal underdeveloped British accent.
Next is the south african and australian accents. They're slight deviations of British English but have a lot more nasality, probably due to difference in weather. The slang is probably regional but you can recognize it from the way they pronounce things like color (British would be "kolor", rhodesian would be "kulah" and australian would be "kaelah"). A minor difference between the African and australian accents would be the Australian relying on the "ai" sound more, it's similar to epenthesis but is a lot more exaggerated with y sounds everywhere. A bit similar to texan but not so much, probably due to the desert region messing with the larynx and inner nose.
American has too many accents to name and I don't know any of them other than bostonian and texan. Boston is full of Irish immigrants so it's based off irish, they use "ae" a lot (kaeh for car). Texan is like australian but less exaggerated and is like a mixed baby between cockney and australian. I would say texan is the more stereotypical redneck accent compared to Arkansas and the deeper south but that's just me. Makes me speculate if Ralph is from Texas or Arkansas instead of west virginia.
Ill probably cover the other European ones in a follow up post.
Starting with the classics, the British accent. It's of several subtypes but the most prominent are RP and cockney. RP is the one used for official purposes and is generally the most accurate to English pronunciation. Regional accents tend to twist things like "Yorkshire" into "Yorkshuh" while RP goes with the entire word as it's spelt. It's sort of held up as the premier way of speaking English across the world due to the associations with royalty and upper class behaviour. Cockney is a bit harder to get the hang of as it requires nasality and twisting pronunciation. It's nearly extinct and is almost practiced only by old people but when they speak cockney, it sounds very good. Michael caine is probably the most prominent cockney speaker and its not even completely accurate to old fashioned cockney cause he mixes in a bit of RP. Most of RP and British English as a whole relies on variations of the "O" and the "uh" sounds compared to American English which relies on the "ah" and "ae" a lot more. Irish and Scottish are minor footnotes, irish relies on cutting the vowels short except for the "ai" and "oo" sounds which is used everywhere, scottish has a bit of nasality and just sounds like a tribal underdeveloped British accent.
Next is the south african and australian accents. They're slight deviations of British English but have a lot more nasality, probably due to difference in weather. The slang is probably regional but you can recognize it from the way they pronounce things like color (British would be "kolor", rhodesian would be "kulah" and australian would be "kaelah"). A minor difference between the African and australian accents would be the Australian relying on the "ai" sound more, it's similar to epenthesis but is a lot more exaggerated with y sounds everywhere. A bit similar to texan but not so much, probably due to the desert region messing with the larynx and inner nose.
American has too many accents to name and I don't know any of them other than bostonian and texan. Boston is full of Irish immigrants so it's based off irish, they use "ae" a lot (kaeh for car). Texan is like australian but less exaggerated and is like a mixed baby between cockney and australian. I would say texan is the more stereotypical redneck accent compared to Arkansas and the deeper south but that's just me. Makes me speculate if Ralph is from Texas or Arkansas instead of west virginia.
Ill probably cover the other European ones in a follow up post.
