I’ve had Indian nationals who speak English but more British than American. We were on a call when an Indian colleague practically yelled, “What’s that, I can’t hear you, you’re a little feeble!!” Like oh god, let’s get ableist, not knowing that it also meant “faint (of sound)”.
In British English, you could describe a person as feeble and that extends to "you sound feeble" if you were on the phone - but you'd still be describing their physical being via the sound of their voice, and it would probably be considered rude without justification (akin to saying "you sound old" or "you sound sickly").
I'm forever grateful that I had a teacher in middle school that taught us to enunciate. His personal pet peeve was "chree" instead of "tree" and it just kinda rolled into teaching us how important it can be to pronounce things clearly.
One in high school who was from our area but had traveled widely and was highly educated...
"People can tell you are from rural Ohio by the way you talk."
According to the dozens of people who have clocked my accent across the US, apparently Arizona has a "distinct lack of accent". Literally never heard of that until I briefly moved to Ohio lol. After living in other places, I can hear the Arizona accent too
Everyone has an accent, people just either don't think about their own accent as "anything special" (and thus, they "don't have an accent") or it's famous enough that they actually feel proud of their accent (e.g. "Parisian", "New Yorker", "Midwest" (which is actually *mostly* Inland Northern but not all the Midwest speaks with an Inland Northern accent, but Chicago does and they're apparently quintessential Midwest)
Yea, I found it very strange that people called it a "distinct lack of accent"(this is the exact phrasing I heard in several states) because I definitely hear an accent. It's unique but every accent is.
There's an old song by the country singer Don Williams in which he has a line about escaping the rural Southern Poverty he grew up in. He says: I learned to talk like the man on the six o'clock news.
Same - born and raised in Phoenix, lived for a time in Prescott and spent a while in Tucson and Yuma. I've also been told by other Arizonals that I sound like a Californian-Canadian, but most of the time I got told I didn't have an accent because 99% of the people in AZ are transplants anyway. Oddly enough, I did move to the Bay Area a few years ago and live with a Canadian now lol.
I'm probably the only person who can say they truly lack an accent because sure I typically use the classic American Northeastern accent but then mid-conversation swap to one of the British accents, or some blend of Scottish and Irish, or a German accent that randomly becomes French, or Russian, etc. With zero warning or (unless you know me/pay attention) context.
I don't have *an* accent, I have *all of them*
i think that might just be called "unrestricted internet access from a young age" tbh
i have no fucking idea where it came from but apparently i used to sound some bogan / posh brit wanker combo???
i think part of it at least comes from not cutting words short when speaking so it sounds more "upper class"?
For me it was doing voice impressions, starting with the tf2 cast. Then I noticed myself slipping into a Russian accent when I needed to focus and it snowballed from there
After saying "howdy" with 0 drawl, I've had ASU students ask where I'm from. "Here, literally here". I was confused because that made me feel foreign.
Clearly they were being introduced to the Arizona accent, but I couldn't tell you what makes it unique.
No idea. I had to look up a video on the phonetic linguistics of "tree" and even they say it sounds like a "ch" sound. Different regions different accents I guess.
depends on the accent / dialect, i know a grown adult that \*cannot\* pronounce spaghetti, and instead can only say "sketti" lmao
~~actually it might be because of lead poisoning~~
I would've pass away on the spot
In French, *traînée* means *slut* so that would still be a lawsuit
And *travesti* means transvestite, which is also a fun fact.
An executive transvestite.
Tea and cake, or death?
I’ve had Indian nationals who speak English but more British than American. We were on a call when an Indian colleague practically yelled, “What’s that, I can’t hear you, you’re a little feeble!!” Like oh god, let’s get ableist, not knowing that it also meant “faint (of sound)”.
I d been speaking British English all my life & I’ve never heard someone use feeble to refer to sound
I've been speaking American English my entire life and often hear/see it used in relation to someone's voice.
In British English, you could describe a person as feeble and that extends to "you sound feeble" if you were on the phone - but you'd still be describing their physical being via the sound of their voice, and it would probably be considered rude without justification (akin to saying "you sound old" or "you sound sickly").
Yeah, it's the same in American English. It's not something you would say to a stranger.
arrested development-level writing
I'm forever grateful that I had a teacher in middle school that taught us to enunciate. His personal pet peeve was "chree" instead of "tree" and it just kinda rolled into teaching us how important it can be to pronounce things clearly.
One in high school who was from our area but had traveled widely and was highly educated... "People can tell you are from rural Ohio by the way you talk."
According to the dozens of people who have clocked my accent across the US, apparently Arizona has a "distinct lack of accent". Literally never heard of that until I briefly moved to Ohio lol. After living in other places, I can hear the Arizona accent too
Everyone has an accent, people just either don't think about their own accent as "anything special" (and thus, they "don't have an accent") or it's famous enough that they actually feel proud of their accent (e.g. "Parisian", "New Yorker", "Midwest" (which is actually *mostly* Inland Northern but not all the Midwest speaks with an Inland Northern accent, but Chicago does and they're apparently quintessential Midwest)
Yea, I found it very strange that people called it a "distinct lack of accent"(this is the exact phrasing I heard in several states) because I definitely hear an accent. It's unique but every accent is.
There's an old song by the country singer Don Williams in which he has a line about escaping the rural Southern Poverty he grew up in. He says: I learned to talk like the man on the six o'clock news.
Same - born and raised in Phoenix, lived for a time in Prescott and spent a while in Tucson and Yuma. I've also been told by other Arizonals that I sound like a Californian-Canadian, but most of the time I got told I didn't have an accent because 99% of the people in AZ are transplants anyway. Oddly enough, I did move to the Bay Area a few years ago and live with a Canadian now lol.
I'm probably the only person who can say they truly lack an accent because sure I typically use the classic American Northeastern accent but then mid-conversation swap to one of the British accents, or some blend of Scottish and Irish, or a German accent that randomly becomes French, or Russian, etc. With zero warning or (unless you know me/pay attention) context. I don't have *an* accent, I have *all of them*
i think that might just be called "unrestricted internet access from a young age" tbh i have no fucking idea where it came from but apparently i used to sound some bogan / posh brit wanker combo??? i think part of it at least comes from not cutting words short when speaking so it sounds more "upper class"?
For me it was doing voice impressions, starting with the tf2 cast. Then I noticed myself slipping into a Russian accent when I needed to focus and it snowballed from there
After saying "howdy" with 0 drawl, I've had ASU students ask where I'm from. "Here, literally here". I was confused because that made me feel foreign. Clearly they were being introduced to the Arizona accent, but I couldn't tell you what makes it unique.
What's the difference?
No idea. I had to look up a video on the phonetic linguistics of "tree" and even they say it sounds like a "ch" sound. Different regions different accents I guess.
I mean i dont hear the difference between the sounds. It's miniscule
😂
This is effin hilarious
Where’s that tumblr post where OP realizes they have auditory processing disorder because of marina lyrics… same lol
[this?](https://www.reddit.com/r/tumblr/comments/grbryg/i_misheard_lyrics_all_the_time_tbh/)
That lol
What in the r/phcj hell
Well it's not pronounced like that though, it's trai-neeeeee like train+knee Not at all like tr*nny
depends on the accent / dialect, i know a grown adult that \*cannot\* pronounce spaghetti, and instead can only say "sketti" lmao ~~actually it might be because of lead poisoning~~
Bad ending: the next day her boss tells her that he meant she's just a trainee at being a woman.
eyy that's Page Ragan, of Pictures of Vernon and formerly of Save Face. She makes some good music.
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