Additional context:

Native speakers of my mother tongue do not all understand each other due to some pretty extreme dialects. Now that I’m in Europe, I’ve noticed multiple instances of people sometimes not understand the dialect of someone from a village 10-20 km away…

In contrast, for example most American, British, and Australian people can just… understand each other like that?? I never thought much about it before but it’s pretty incredible

Edit: thanks everyone, and clearly I didn’t think of certain parts of the UK when I was in the shower and thought of this…

  • tourist@lemmy.world
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    24 hours ago

    “Broadcast English”

    Interesting term

    I’ve always noticed that In movies and TV shows, North American accents mostly sound “normal”. But when I talk to Americans/Canadians in person or online over voice chat, I cannot pinpoint the accents, it just sounds “American” to me.

    I almost never hear the

    “I’m walkin here”

    “Folks won’t take kindly to you around these parts”

    “I pahked my cah at the Hahvahd yahd”

    “I’m sorey aboot that”

    I’m totally down, I just need to, like, check my schedule?

    etc.

    kinds of exaggerated accents

    everyone sounds like someone from CNN to me and then they say they’re from Arkansas or something