xKuroiTaimax
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True. Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner, but our regional accents are crazy and I do not comprehend or care for them.lol excuse me if i am wrong, but i think american english is more easily understandable than english from the uk. though one can understand both if one knows english, the kind of english you guys speak over there sometimes throws me for a loop, almost as if its not english
American English is often more pronounced- I hear more English people 'tripping over' their words, whistling or even spitting with pronunciation, especially when tying to read a text aloud. There is less focus on tonality and words can end up a jumbled mess. The middle class people around where I live have a shrill, unpleasant tone to their voices and I find it impossible to pay attention to because it sounds like their words are attributed no real meaning, if that makes any sense at all. Apparently American English is somewhat like what 17th century British English used to be.
That being said, the US has it's regional variations too- some more coherent than others.
I myself have never been raised with the 'Queen's English'- amongst close cousins from Florida and Canada, minded by a grandmother with a strong Trini accent after all these years and a mother with a typical south london accent. My dad speaks more 'plainly', nothing in particular is stressed or muted. Not 'posh' and not 'Innit do, bruv.'
A couple of miles down the road from me they are all like this:
[video=youtube;TunQD2ZDz7Q]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TunQD2ZDz7Q&feature=related[/video]
You don't have to excuse yourself with me, Urca, I'm nobody ^^;