I do realize that! It is a pity that too many guys always think that they had only one vote. This is NOT a Presidential Election!
Ah, well... no matter. At the rate we're going, English (or whatever this crap is we're speaking in America today) won't be our "official" language in another 50 years. And I'm thrilled that I won't be here to have to endure what everything else will be like by then, either....
This may sound funny to you, but it is complete nonsense. And I do not find it funny. Not every sentence with "beer" in it is automatically funny. And it is not fair towards Scotland.
You want slovenly-spoken, simple-minded English, delivered in artlessly thrown-together monosyllables, betraying intellects somewhat 'south' of 100? East St. Louis, or, Southside Chicago....
Having lived in the Acadiana region of Louisiana for about 6 years and the little corner store where I lived you were more likely to walk in and hear Cajun French being spoken rather than English......................I had a girl from Belgium visiting one time, her father was American but she grew up in Belgium speaking English and French. I asked her how much of the Cajun French she understood. She said the basic fundamentals where the same but "newer" words, words that came about after the Acadians had left Canada and moved to Louisiana and were sperate from the French community they made up their own words for things or adopted the American so it was abut 75% her French and 25% unique.
Musically, sung lyrics.................Portuguese..............it has such a flow and the accents...........
I gave three replies to this question..... my wife's first language is Spanish.... my favourite mentor was Evangelist Garner Ted Armstrong.... and I really like Jason Stratham and Chris Hemsworth and the roles that they have played.... ? What kind of English do you like to hear? Scottish English 8 vote(s) 25.0% Irish English 10 vote(s) 31.3% English English 13 vote(s) 40.6% * US-English 9 vote(s) 28.1% * Australian English 10 vote(s) 31.3% other Commonwealth English 5 vote(s) 15.6% English with a French accent 5 vote(s) 15.6% * English with a Spanish accent 3 vote(s) 9.4% English with a Russian accent 4 vote(s) 12.5% other accents 9 vote(s) 28.1% no English at all 1 vote(s) 3.1% Garner Ted Armstrong pre Atonement Study 2000 182 views Sep 25, 2020 This lecture and many othrs like it prepared me to notice hidden meaning in Yom Kippur... that most other Christians tend to miss....
I worked with a man from Scotland who had a heavy brogue. the bartender asked him where he was from and he told her Scotland and she told him he spoke real good English.
I know this thread's topic is about "English", but it sure does remind me of the collisions that occur in spoken German between those who speak "Plattdeutsch" (way up by the North Sea) and Bavarians ("Bayerisch",down south in the Alps). And, both of those groups tend to despise the "Berliner" Germans who speak "Hochdeutsch" ('high', proper German). Here in the States, you can drive a few hundred miles and run into different English-American dialects. In Germany, you can go as little as 100 kilometers (~63 miles) and encounter very different dialects in spoken German!
But the ACCENT is still unique, no? Cajun sounds much different from standard French, & even from Canadian French (though I can more easily see the connection in sound). Also, there is some English intermixed, as well, isn't there? Are there various "Cajun," dialects? I ask you this, about Louisiana, since your having lived there might give you insight. But I have also heard the Haitian language being called, "Cajun French."
I take your point, that entire areas in which one or another accent predominates, are closer together in Germany, and probably in Europe, in general, than in the more spacious U.S. But, here it may be more common to hear non-local accents, in any given place, because of Americans' high degree of mobility. When in California, one does not only hear California accents, or hear only pidgin English, in Hawaii. Nor does one need to travel to Boston, to hear a Boston accent. One hears southern accents in the north, and Yankee accents in the south.
There is Cajun which were the French Canadians from Acadiana and the Creoles which were African and Indian. People confuse New Orleans with Cajun but NOLA is Creole and and the other European influences. Different language and accent. Then the "yak" accent in New Orleans which sounds like New York. I'm not familiar with all proper French accents so I don't know how the Cajun French accent would compare with more rural French accents, it can be quite flamboyant and "French" to my ears!
English English 14 vote(s) 41.2% US-English 10 vote(s) 29.4% Australian English 10 vote(s -------------------------------------- So it stands now.
