Do you prefer American English to British English as the international language in your country?
Do you prefer American English to British English as the international language in your country?
I learned english because of the Brits literature
american
I learned English from vidyas
Based. I love Lovecraft, what's your favorite British writer?
Why?
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Received Pronunciation is the pretentious wanker non-native accent here. Girls who want to project being a wevy! sewious pewson love it. It's kinda ruined for me in that way. Don't mind other British accents.
Girls who want to project being a wevy! sewious pewson love it.
How so? Are those the same girls who date Arabs and Somalis or the other ones? What about men?
Don't know if they'd date them, but if they don't, it would be for a wevy sewious reason.
Guess men might be the same. Not sure. Maybe I'm sexist.
wevy sewious
I mean what exactly do you mean by this?
Think that's their motive a lot of the time, and not that they prefer how it sounds. Wouldn't judge random foreigners the same way.
as the international language
I would prefer none of these. But among "English" I prefer the proper one, which means British English.
the proper one, which means British English
Source?
that's
What?
Most people here will hear way more American English, so when someone has more of a British accent, it's usually because they made a deliberate effort. I'm cynical about their motives.
Well so whatever, British English is actually perceived to be more formal and refined in Sweden then?
I'm pretty old. Think I might have more British English influence than some younger people naturally. Anyway, don't worry about it. I'm a weirdo.
Yeah, think it is everywhere.
Yet most people perceive this formality in rather a negative sense?
Nah, not sure if I'm that representative. Some might. Like, even people who aren't me would probably agree it sounds a bit put-on when a Swede who hasn't lived in the UK speaks the Queen's English.
not sure if I'm that representative
I've heard roughly the same opinions on it from Germans.
the Queen's English
The thing is, modern rich bongs don't speak like that either, partially because they wanted to sound more working-class. Even boomers like Kier Starmer has a different accent called the SSBE.
For me it's Euro-English, language of the future. Historic circumstances made it such a mutt language, so it's no wonder that it is now so easy to learn and useful.
Euro-English
Do you write color or colour? Realise or realize? Center or centre?
Do you pronounce car as cah? Water like wader or wotah?
Can't tell how genuine they sound to be honest. I need a Bong. I probably speak some mishmash of accents, though mostly American.
thinking they're different is the truest mark of an ESL. same goes for Americans who say they have trouble deciphering British accents.
If I don't focus and pay attention to my speech, apparently I speak "with a russian accent", or so I've been told. So I'd say - kolor, re-alaiz, tsenter, karr, vater.
If I try hard enough, I can fool other ESLs into thinking I'm speaking proper British English.
I didn't claim they're very different though, the differences are extremely minor yet them being so minute actually makes it harder to decide which to follow.
British English
So you still follow British?
Yeah most Swedes have their own accents which for some reason aren't all the same at all.
Definitely American, I fucking hate Britisher English
lad
bird
shag
trolley
E.t.c..
Thankfully it's getting eroded by the Americanization of Britain
fucking hate Britisher English
Why? The words you listed aren't even that bad or something like that whatsoever or however.
Most young people in Europe speak closer to British English, in truth it's becoming it's own Euro-ESL amalgam. For zoomers it's different, British English thought in schools can't keep up with the amount of American English they get from media.
or they're just boomers
Hans Rosling and this guy is where Swedish accent peaked: youtube.com
young people
contrasted with zoomers
Emm?
So is speaking British a boomer thing? Aren't boomers based doe?
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Yeah, 65+ will naturally speak British Swenglish if they're well-adjusted.
Yeah. The interviewer seems to have that generic non-thick Swedish accent. Or something.
>young people
>contrasted with zoomers
Emm?
Is there not a difference for you? Your topic and questions DO sound like a subject matter for a high school English essay.
Don't try to steal the spotlight from true sovl Swedish accent though.
I prefer continental Euro English
See I'm 19.
Colour
Both realise and realize
Center
Car as car
Water like wader
I would've said the same 6 months ago desu, I didn't know the difference until an Iranian told me they aren't Arabs
So is speaking British a boomer thing?
they're less exposed to burgerslop and were most likely taught RP in school, but today you can use whatever spelling/pronounciation you like
He was coping doe, they're practically just as Arab as Iraqis. I.e. totally arabized cucks, not real Arabs who only live in the Gulf.
Looks American.
And why does nobody like British?
It's a mix of british and american but pronounced as euro-english
pronounced as euro-english
You said it's pronounced like American.
a mix of british and american
Not really. It's sort of like in Canada.
You said it's pronounced like American
No I didn't
You did. See
There is only one that counts in the world: american.
British english is as unsufferable as their speakers, people proposing that are just spiteful of the US.
just spiteful of the US.
Isn't it based doe? Or something.
American because ATS rejects my resume if i use British English.
ATS
What is it?
British English
Why? This Italian said otherwise.
Kek. Do they really?
S*yjaks are the worst thing to ever happen to runet.
S*yjaks are the worst thing to ever happen to runet.
No one except about 12 literal royals and nobility uses RP in Britain now
He forgot to mention that Centre is also often used, however like a lot of synonyms in our language, it's more context dependent.
Center we use more often when we describe a literal position (middle-point), while Centre is another way how we say City Square and/or a Shopping Mall.