why have we all got diffent accents?????

Question

even in a ten mile radis some places have totally diff accents and words for things.....
e.g some people say bye but a mile up the road they say cherry (short for cherrio)...
one of my oldest kids wants to know
oh n he wants to know why does kamakasi pilots were helmets???

Answer 1

Like your question, though cannot answer. I have also wondered myself. I personally like my accent, I am a Glaswegian.

Answer 2

Regional accents are often a combination of language signifiers. For example, the Potteries accent is closer to German than to English. In Stoke some can even write in Potters. It's very tricky and you have to read it phonetically but this guy might be helpful...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/stoke/voices2005/features/steve_birks.shtml

In the Armed Forces people can end up with a hybrid accent which includes a variant of every accent in the entire UK.

Answer 3

In linguistics, an accent is a pronunciation characteristic of a particular group of people relative to another group.

When a standard language and pronunciation are defined by a group, an accent may be any pronunciation that deviates from that standard. However, accent is a relative concept, and it is meaningful only with respect to a specified pronunciation reference. For example, people from New York City may speak with an accent in the perception of people from Los Angeles, but people from Los Angeles may also speak with an accent in the perception of New Yorkers. Americans hear British people speaking with an accent and vice versa.

Groups sharing an identifiable accent may be defined by any of a wide variety of common traits. An accent may be associated with the region in which its speakers reside (a geographical accent), the socio-economic status of its speakers, their ethnicity, their caste or social class, their first language (when the language in which the accent is heard is not their native language), and so on.

Accent should not be confused with dialect (q.v.), which is a variety of language differing in vocabulary and grammar as well as pronunciation. Dialects are usually spoken by a group united by geography or class.

In some societies, a “standard” accent is defined that carries particular prestige in that society; it may or may not be an accent that is widely spoken within the society, and sometimes its prestige derives solely from its association with a specific real or theoretical group within the society. In the United Kingdom, for example, the so-called Received Pronunciation of English is established as the most prestigious accent, although only about three percent of people within the UK actually speak with that accent. Often the standard accent is simply the most widely spoken accent in a group—that is, the one that is least likely to be perceived as “different.” An example is General American English, an accent (defined somewhat less rigidly than RP) that is spoken to a greater or lesser extent by many native speakers of English in North America.


[edit] Foreign accent
A foreign accent is one that marks someone as a non-native speaker of a language. It arises when the phonology of one language, typically the person's native language, influences his pronunciation of a second language. This usually occurs when the second language is acquired after the age of 12.

The perception of a foreign accent by native speakers may carry with it positive or negative connotations. When the connotations are negative, non-native speakers with a foreign accent may endeavor to suppress and eliminate it. However, foreign accents are notoriously difficult to eliminate without very extensive training, and there is much individual variation in the ability to eliminate a foreign accent. Many speakers choose to live with their foreign accents as long as these are not heavy enough to interfere with communication (that is, as long as their accents leave the phonemes of a language clearly distinguishable to native speakers).

Kamikaze Pilots:
The main reason for such a pilot to wear a helmet is because the majority of missions were unsuccessful. This could be for a number of reasons.

1. Inclement weather could make it impossible to see the target

2. The plane could miss the angle of approach and be unable to crash at a vital point

3. The American naval fleet could see the plane and open up anti-aircraft fire, making it clear that the plane would never hit the target.

Under those circumstances, which happened the overwhelming majority of the time, the pilot would return to base and wait for the next chance to fly a mission. According to eyewitness testimony, including some kamikaze pilots who were drafted near the end of the war, and thus never had a chance to carry out a succesful mission, thus surviving, were almost inconsolable with depression when flying back and the only thing that could comfort them was the thought of the next mission.

Under these circumstances it made sense to give the pilot a helmet, because the number of skilled pilots who were able to slam a Mitsubishi Zero into an air craft carrier was quite low - you needed to fly above the cloud barrier, gauge correctly where the boat was, then sweep out of the clouds to hit the boat before the anti aircraft battery went off - you don't want to lose a pilot like that in a banal accident.

Answer 4

In our local free paper last week, Sheffield Uni was advertising for people with Leeds (West Yorkshire) accents to contact them as they needed the true 'Lioner' accent to be entered into a new speach computer or software that was being developed, to recognise different accents..! Good, eh?

Answer 5

Different accents because people used not to travel even 10 miles. Difficult to see why it's still like that, though.

Answer 6

If the world had Irish or English accents ONLY, than I'd be fine.

Answer 7

Kamikaze pilots wore helmets as part of their uniform and mainly because microphones were attached to the inside of their helmets for communication.

hope i helped

=)

Answer 8

easy, it is because you speak how your parents speak and the same for them so on; and a long time ago, before the ancestors spoke the accented language they spoke another language which interfered with the way they speak English and they pass that on

Answer 9

You must be kidding. But here goes. kamakasi
pilots DID NOT wear helmets, they wore leather caps because of the wind.

Answer 10

Aint a clue but i love your question

Always wanted to know myself!