JazzB1987 said:
Kasz216 said:
sethnintendo said:
Your use of the English language is far superior (sound smarter (except people near the border of Scotland, I can't understand you guys...))
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I'm going to ignore the rest of this post because I find it silly.
But it's worth noting that lingusists actually agree that the American accents and their brand of English is closer to traditional english then the current English brand of English.
It's a funny thing to keep in mind the next time you hear an english person talking about how americans are "mangling" their lanaguage.
In reality... it's quite the opposite.
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I dont know those linguists but for me as a German, British English sounds like its American English with strange pronounciation.
Let me specify it.
It sounds like American English spoken by German Saxons with Saxon accent. So I dont understand how American English is closer to the original English when Brits are actually Saxons and when both sound like Saxons speaking.
I mean Germans say HAUS Americans say HOUSE both sounds like the same word (maybe like HAH OOS) its just written differently.
Saxons say HAEUS or something like that and so do Brits they dont say HA OOS they add like O U E into the word. HEH OUES or something like that.
(its hard to explan I hope you know what i mean)
I have ZERO problem understanding British news anchors, or Brits singing because they try to "speak clean" it sounds like American English but normal people talking or even normal British movies give me a hard time understanding what they say.
(of course Americans from Texas with hardcore accent are also a little bit hard to understand but not as hard as british people IMHO)
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According to the arguement in the book i mentioned above
http://www.amazon.com/The-Mother-Tongue-English-That/dp/0380715430
Apparently, such pronounciations only became popular in the 1800's for fasionable stylistic reasons.
