Final-Fan said:
Kantor said:
Final-Fan said:
Kantor said:
alfredofroylan said:
People taking Yahtzee seriously??? That's the problem, he's just a funny guy with an accent, not a serious reviewer ..... well actually there aren't any serious reviewers. |
This, except Yahtzee doesn't have an accent. The language is English.
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Nobody in England has an accent, gotcha.
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Many people in England have accents, mainly people who have lived most of their life outside Britain, and/or speak it as a second/third/fourth language and/or have recently moved to England. But an English accent is not "an accent". You wouldn't say the Queen speaks "accented English", would you?
A Scottish accent, now that is an accent.
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The two "standard" dialects, that are often considered to be "no accent", are "BBC English" AKA "The Queen's English" (so you have reason so say she speaks with no accent) and "General American".
From Wikipedia: "English speakers have many different accents, which often signal the speaker's native dialect or language. For the more distinctive characteristics of regional accents, see Regional accents of English, and for the more distinctive characteristics of regional dialects, see List of dialects of the English language. Within England, variation is now largely confined to pronunciation rather than grammar or vocabulary. At the time of the Survey of English Dialects, grammar and vocabulary differed across the country, but a process of lexical attrition has led most of this variation to die out."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_accents_of_English#England
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language_in_England
"There are many different accents and dialects throughout England"
"The Queen's accent has changed slightly over the years but she still speaks a conservative form of RP."
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Alright, I'll rephrase.
The Queen's English accent is not "accented English". If you go further North, you will hear very accented English accents which are still, technically, English accents.
Cheryl Cole has an accent. Yahtzee does not.
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