Comment on It's quite impressive that most English speakers across the world understand each other, despite variations in accents/dialects

AreaKode@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• hddsx@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  “With almost no accent”

  You have an accent

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  • DrBob@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Midwest is classic “broadcast English”. It’s considered an almost neutral accent without a strong sense of place associated with it.

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    • lukecooperatus@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      A so-called “neutral accent” is still an accent.

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      • DrBob@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I never really understood it until I met people from Iowa for the first time. They didn’t have an accent in the way that Sam Diego doesn’t have weather, just a climate.

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    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      West coast people really hear a Midwest accent. I upvoted because it made me laugh.

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      • iltoroargento@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Yeah lol I will agree that it’s less heavy of an accent, for the most part, but most people can still tell unless you literally talk like a news anchor. Same with West Coast accents tbh.

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    • tourist@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      “Broadcast English”

      Interesting term

      I’ve always noticed that In movies and TV shows, North American accents mostly sound “normal”. But when I talk to Americans/Canadians in person or online over voice chat, I cannot pinpoint the accents, it just sounds “American” to me.

      I almost never hear the

      “I’m walkin here”

      “Folks won’t take kindly to you around these parts”

      “I pahked my cah at the Hahvahd yahd”

      “I’m sorey aboot that”

      I’m totally down, I just need to, like, check my schedule?

      etc.

      kinds of exaggerated accents

      everyone sounds like someone from CNN to me and then they say they’re from Arkansas or something

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    • IcedRaktajino@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I thought that was the Mid-Atlantic Accent?

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      • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Not for about 80 years…

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    When I first did tech support 30 years ago, I could nail what state an American was calling from, but not the Midwest, all same same.

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• Oisteink@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You guys…

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  • Oisteink@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    My favourite (northern?)mid western saying is «uff da»

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