2007-09-14 19:33:30 · 11 answers · asked by russell 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
Of course you do. The American accents are unmistakable to Europeans - we can spot you a mile off.
Your idiomatic expressions in English are different from those used in the UK and your accent is distinctly different from what you will hear in the UK, or other countries where people may speak English. An American accent is as utterly distinct to my ear as the accent of a German or Frenchman speaking English.
Sometimes an American regional accent may have some similarities in the pronunciation of vowels and the emphasis placed on polysyllabic words to a regional UK accent such as in Cornwall, but we don't mistake them as being the same.
2007-09-14 19:40:45 · answer #1 · answered by chris m 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah we do. The problem is, what does an American accent sound like? It is such a weird concept for us Americans to understand because we can't "hear" our accent. We just speak what is normal to us. The same goes for any one who is from a different area, to themselves, they speak normal. I wonder if there is an American who can convey what our accent sounds like. I guess it's just how we use our words.
2007-09-14 20:04:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
of direction you have an accessory! all and sundry thinks that they have not got an accessory and that others from diverse countries/aspects/areas do as they're so used to listening to their very own dialect constantly. Rank Jeff is punctiliously incorrect. i'm from England and have visited the mid-west quite a few circumstances and that i can assure you that folk from that section have an accessory. think of roughly it - we invented and have been speaking English for over one thousand years in the previous the U. S. became born. Why in the international could people from the mid-west without warning happen and be those speaking our language without an accessory?! And the reason he became instructed he did no longer have an English accessory is by using the fact he would not, he has an american accessory, people from my usa have an English accessory... of course that's not consumer-friendly to describe precisely what the yank accessory is like. It sounds quite nasally, slightly whiny and the letter 'r' sounds as despite if it quite is curled lots. i would not say that that's an accessory that's deemed quite eye-catching yet on an analogous time i haven't come for the period of all and sundry who distinctly hates it. that's merely yet another accessory for many individuals.
2016-11-15 06:56:28 · answer #3 · answered by mangiafico 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think so. In fact, I think any nation or culture's accent would sound foreign 2 them but their own accent would sound normal 2 them respectively. Uh, something like that. Keep in mind, thought, that not every American in every region or st8 has the same accent.
2007-09-14 19:40:55 · answer #4 · answered by The Glorious S.O.B. 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Considering America has so many different accents - yes, our accent is needless to say very different from that of European English.
2007-09-14 20:33:53 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Everyone has an accent. It's just that we are used to accents that we hear often.
2007-09-14 19:37:46 · answer #6 · answered by drshorty 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To them yes. We speak new English they speak old English.
2007-09-14 19:38:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Haven't you listened to people talking who are not from your district?
2007-09-14 19:39:54 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm sure and they can tell the difference when they hear us Yankees.
2007-09-14 19:37:59 · answer #9 · answered by In God We Trust 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, you don't have an accent.
It sounds like most of you are drunk or just can't pronounce the words when you speak.
2007-09-14 20:11:56 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋