How do ppl have accents?

People are simply products of their environment, essentially what dirty raider was saying.

We adapt to our surroundings, we develop an ear for the way people talk in order to understand them, and whichever accent has the most play in your environment (which also tends to become the accent you most understand) is more than likely the accent you'll pick up. Any other way of talk you hear will be an "accent" in your world, because that way of speaking/pronounciation is not the form of speak you understand the most.


But I wonder...do Brits find Americans accents as hard to understand as we find their accents to be? Ghosttoker?

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Originally Posted by Ousted

People are simply products of their environment, essentially what dirty raider was saying.

We adapt to our surroundings, we develop an ear for the way people talk in order to understand them, and whichever accent has the most play in your environment (which also tends to become the accent you most understand) is more than likely the accent you'll pick up. Any other way of talk you hear will be an "accent" in your world, because that way of speaking/pronounciation is not the form of speak you understand the most.


But I wonder...do Brits find Americans accents as hard to understand as we find their accents to be? Ghosttoker?

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Don't know, i don't find american accents hard to understand in the slightest, all we get over here is american tv shows lol.. i bet you hardly get any british tv shows, apart from on the special channels you can have:D

it's not us ... it's you....

the first ones articulated thoughts as grunts and groans until eventually they developed a word for what they were trying to describe - those words stuck. it would make sense that everyone from all over the world committed in this act to familiarize what they now have for communication.

in boston no one pronunces Rs i have a little accent but people in the city have a really thick accent i think they fake it for the tourists

how accents came about who knows diffrent cultures together butchering the language probably in boston its mostly italian in the northend and irish in the south boston

how every one else says it - park the car in harvard yard
how i say it and bostonians alike - pak the ca in havad yad

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Originally Posted by Jim Morrison

in boston no one pronunces Rs i have a little accent but people in the city have a really thick accent i think they fake it for the tourists

how accents came about who knows diffrent cultures together butchering the language probably in boston its mostly italian in the northend and irish in the south boston

how every one else says it - park the car in harvard yard
how i say it and bostonians alike - pak the ca in havad yad

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Yeah i love like old films with people from NY and NJ (noo joisey) talking, the accents they have, like very strong, nowhere near to pronouncing words properly, accents:D lol

over here people say mou'n instead of mountain and libary instead of library

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Originally Posted by 3 Sheets To The Wind

Yeah i love like old films with people from NY and NJ (noo joisey) talking, the accents they have, like very strong, nowhere near to pronouncing words properly, accents:D lol

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Uh, actually, that's a Brooklyn accent, most New Yorkers talk the way you see on T.V. I don't even laugh at them there unruly English comics because of their funny way of talking out the mouth.

"Oh My God, I can't believe my eyes
Underneath that ghostly pale is that you?
Someone in your shape shouldn't be driving
Someone in your shape shouldn't be doing anything at all"
-Huey Lewis & The News

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Originally Posted by 420ultimatesmokage

over here people say mou'n instead of mountain and libary instead of library

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Everybody from my mountains also say mou'n. I used to say libary too but I stopped when I was like 8.

Ever since I moved to Buffalo I've been plagued by the horrific accent people have around here. They can't pronounce vowels right. They say "pat" instead of "pot" and "pay-at" instead of "pat". It's so annoying.

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Originally Posted by ermitonto

Everybody from my mountains also say mou'n. I used to say libary too but I stopped when I was like 8.

Ever since I moved to Buffalo I've been plagued by the horrific accent people have around here. They can't pronounce vowels right. They say "pat" instead of "pot" and "pay-at" instead of "pat". It's so annoying.

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Damn, that'd annoy me:D

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Originally Posted by beachguy in thongs

Uh, actually, that's a Brooklyn accent, most New Yorkers talk the way you see on T.V. I don't even laugh at them there unruly English comics because of their funny way of talking out the mouth.

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Ahh ok, Brooklyn then :rolleyes: