These Guys are From England and Who Gives a Shit?
I was talking to a linguistics buddy of mine and the topic of British accents came up. To be more precise: the way they are precieved by Americans.
What I can't get is why most people hear British accents and associate a level of sophistication (let's ignore cockney for a minute here, that raises different opinions). Do we have left over cultural taining from pre-Revolutionary War or something?
-Thomas
What I can't get is why most people hear British accents and associate a level of sophistication (let's ignore cockney for a minute here, that raises different opinions). Do we have left over cultural taining from pre-Revolutionary War or something?
-Thomas
posted by T Kwong at 8:38 AM
2 Comments:
Everything in our culture is left over from the Revolutionary War, there I said it.
Maybe... The English are from an area that has more different countries in a smaller space, they must have visited more, therefore they are more worldly and worldly means smart. (It hurts my head to even type that abomination of logic.)
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