In Whom^x, Accents^x

The Painted VeilA selfish, spoiled and fun-loving young British woman (Kitty) marries a doctor (Walter), who is deeply in love with her, only to escape from her family. Walter takes his wife to China, since he's going to work there, but soon she falls in love with a British expatriate (a real...

Anonymous wrote:It really bugs me the way Americans say a 'British' accent because more than one country makes up Britain, there is England, Scotland, and Wales, all of which have very different accents. Then of course all three countries have many regional accents which are again very...

Milky wrote: <I agree. I would go so far as to say that the non-native speaker who speaks native-like English with a noticeable accent may well be regarded as speaking "worse" English than the non-native speaker who speaks English out of a text book.> By whom? You? No.

<I agree. I would go so far as to say that the non-native speaker who speaks native-like English with a noticeable accent may well be regarded as speaking "worse" English than the non-native speaker who speaks English out of a text book.> By whom? You?

Milky wrote: <Speech is only ungrammatical if the speaker does not follow his own rules.> What do you mean by "his own rules"? I mean that every speaker has internalised rules that he follows. Under stress, those rules may break down. Milky wrote:<Even if you are teaching...

Some people will even get a sort of neutral accent that has all of the unusual parts removed. The Western US accent was actually formed like that, because speakers from the North, Midlands, and South, all moved to the West, and their accents intermingled and the Western accent was sort of a...

lol...I live in a country where very few people have even a basic level of English, yet, I still manage to communicate reasonable well. Language itself, as you hinted, is the icing on the cake of communication.Where there is a will, there is always a way. For example, if you don't understand...

Anonymous wrote:yo guys! i've read all your comments...and i gotta say i've lost any hope to learn english...reading or hearing how others talk kinda depresses me cos i realize that i'm very bad at it, that i can't speak at all. nobody can understand me, some people make fun of me when i speak-...

I would agree with you, but being born and raised in the area and having an English teacher for a grandmother, I can attest to the fact that many people here refuse to enunciate when they speak. So, having said that, it's not the accent that is terrible. It's the user's refusal to speak...

Tell us, Englishuser, when, where, why and by whom in the US is this less common variant used?