Excellent piece from Grégory Miras on why new tools that change #accents in real time are harmful and problematic - they erase diversity - and make us less able to appreciate and listen to that diversity.
Am I the only one who just cant listen to a UK accent (any of them) and not hear "th" as just an f"... like "through" just sounds like they are saying "frew" to me.
I absolutely adored the 4' B&W vox pop clip in Kings Cross; just hilarious & captivating. Listening to the voices & delivery therein was only part of the fun though; i was staggered by the massive invasion of personal body space by interviewer & interviewees compared to my own sensibility, plus i suspect that many of the interviewees were around my age now [60s] yet looked 20 years older [which is a major social trend i've observed over my lifetime; what "old" peeps look like has been getting older & older IMO].
This morning is the coldest day of winter so far where I live, it's 17° (F) or -8° (C) outside It even snowed a bit yesterday, not much, just enough to frost the rooftops. The high today is 32°/0° (F/C). Almost shirt sleeve weather in Minnesota 😆.
Hmmm ... when I lived in Minnesota, many people noted that I talked funny. They thought I had a deep southern accent, which I thought was hilarious because I'm from California, originally. My Californian accent though, if there is such a thing, is tempered by decades in the military where we tended to blend. Anyway, I thought Minnesotans had accents similar to Canadians, which is subtly different from other places in the US, that I've lived the accent quickly became undistinguishable to my ears.
"There is no such thing as an ugly accent, like there's no such thing as an ugly flower." - David Crystal
Changing teachers' attitudes towards linguistic diversity: effects of an anti-bias programme
"an intervention programme for kindergarten and school teachers' continuing education in Germany that targets biases against language outside a perceived monolingual ‘standard’ and its speakers"
"Attempting to prevent accents from changing is like sweeping back an incoming tide with a broom – fruitless and defying nature. Instead, we should embrace linguistic diversity, work to combat accentism (discrimination based on a person’s accent), and accept that accents will always continue to change."
I didn't realize our accent has numerous aspects shared with the rest of the Great Lakes Region:
"The Michigan accent is a part of a more wide-ranging regional accent called the Inland North accent, which covers a broad geography primarily around the Great Lakes region, from Buffalo, New York, all the way to Chicago."
Ellie Phillips:
"As a TV presenter, I’ve been told to tone down my Scouse accent countless times.
I love my accent, but I hate that I can be discriminated against because of it. That some people truly think being a Scouser means I must be unintelligent or incapable"
When people make fun of the way you speak, right in front of you, it’s difficult not to be affected. It was the first time I realised that the way I spoke was looked down on." https://inews.co.uk/opinion/tv-presenter-scouse-accent-countless-times-2535894 #Scouse#Liverpool#accents
I haven’t done a proper #introduction yet! I’m Carolee, white American trying to use my unearned privilege to make the world around me a place where my lived experience is no longer perceived as the default. I make mistakes but try to learn from them.
Interested in learning #languages (fluent in English, learner in French, sign language, Scottish Gaelic, German, and Spanish). Hobbyist in #accents of English and fan of #lingustics.
Like whales and bats, elk have regional dialects (www.popsci.com)
Whales, bats and birds sound different depending on where they live. So do elk, according to new research.