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Something I noticed recently about languages is that there's three main sets of "settings": the alphabet (or how letters map to sounds), the vocabulary (how to string letters together to form words that map to meanings), and grammar (how to legally combine words to express thoughts).
An interesting part about the alphabet is that there's two angles to it: the writing part and the spoken part. Many languages share most of the writing part with english (eg french, spanish, german) but sharing the spoken part is rarer. In fact, different regions that speak the same language can use different letter sounds. That's what an accent is, or at least a big part of it (cadence and emphasis can also make the same language sound different).
Anyways, this felt profound to me when I realized it but now I'm curious if this was obvious to people more inclined to the language side of learning for why people have accents.
English is a mess because the characters don't match the sounds used in many words. Like tough vs though. Which Is different to say Serbian, or most other languages where the letter always has the same sound.
But accents are slightly different than different letter sounds aswell
For example you can have people with the same accent speak different sounds on words. Like a person that says the herb as Bayzil compared to somebody that says Bahsil, even with same accent.
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I feel like this mainly applies to Scottish people. I mean the mere fact that they spell the way they speak means that they're aware that they're pronouncing everything incorrectly, yet they still do the accent anyway.
The way they have to put so much effort into every word they pronounce seems extremely tiring and stressful on the vocal cords; I wouldn't blame them for dropping the act once they're safe and sound at home.
Bloody hell!
At which point they sound like a Canadian pretending to be Australian
Personally, it's just the fact that nobody is shooting anybody over here and healthcare is free.
We do have maga in the form of Nige, but it's a huge stigma over here so that's good.
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knew they were faking it, must be that syndrome that changes people accents after a TIA.
More true than many realise.