What is the real english?

[Warman17]

I got into a debate with someone arguing why one of the following accents is the correct english. I'd like to know which accent all of you tihnk is the correct english.

I think that Media English aka proper American english is the correct english most liekly because it's the accent I've heard my entire life. Here is a description of the listed accents-

1) King's English: The English spoken in England. Includes words such as metre and ah-loo-mini-umm.

2) Scottish: Think Willy from the simpsons

3) Irish: Think sterotypical lepracons.

4) Media English aka Proper American English: The same language you'll here spoken on most American television and movies. Notice how you never hear a new york accent when a newscaster lives in new york city or a southern accent when a character lives in the south.

5) Southern English: Think cofnederate soldiers/generals in civil war movies.

6) Northeastern English: Think JFK's accent. "Cuber" instead of Cuba for example.

7) NYC Accent: "Whats yous guys doing over here" Best thing that comes to mind is the one construction worker thats in a lot of episodes of futurama.

8) Australian English: Think the crocodile hunter.

9) Canadian English: What are you talking aboot? Think about canadians

10) Ebonics: Think rap etc

11) My english: What ever accent you have that isn't listed. AKA OTHER.

Sorry if my examples my be sterotypical or my not be the real way the people talk but I wanted think accents that are more recognisable.

 

[Xen]

"the kings english"- they invented the goddam language, they be the ones whom pronounce it right.

 

[SeleucusNicator]

"the kings english"- they invented the goddam language, they be the ones whom pronounce it right.

The language was invented by a common linguistic ancestor.

 

[ainwood]

Well, there are 100's (if not 1000's) of different accents in england....

 

[Hotpoint]

As an Englishman... say and spell it our way or don't call it English

Actually the variation in regional accent, if not spelling, within England is vast. The difference between my Hampshire accent and even one from a couple of counties over is easily recognisable.

 

[Xen]

The language was invented by a common linguistic ancestor.

yeah, a common ancestopr that just happend to be in goddamed england; hence the name english, goddamit

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[Bugfatty300]

Hard to say.

I'm inclined to say British English since it originated there, but English was also the bastardization of several languages.

I'm also inclined to say American English since it will probably be the next evolution in the development of the language.

 

[Fetus4188]

California/"Media" English

 

[Syterion]

Northeastern, although I've never heard "Cuber." A better example would probably be "ideer" for "idea" and "Pahk yah cah in Hahvahd Yahd" for "Park your car in Harvard Yard."

 

[Warman17]

Northeastern, although I've never heard "Cuber." A better example would probably be "ideer" for "idea" and "Pahk yah cah in Hahvahd Yahd" for "Park your car in Harvard Yard."

I've heard in some JFK speeches him pronounce Cuba as "Kew-ber"

 

[A'AbarachAmadan]

Didn't see it, but I'd say 'none'. There is the common tongue so to speak, but nothing I would call the only 'real' English, they are all real. Languages change over time.

 

[Tomoyo]

7) NYC Accent: "Whats yous guys doing over here" Best thing that comes to mind is the one construction worker thats in a lot of episodes of futurama.

More like "What's youse guys doin' ova hea".

 

[Cuivienen]

British English has deviated further than American English from the norms of the 1600s so American English is more "true."

 

[Taliesin]

King's English, certainly.
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[Taliesin]

British English has deviated further than American English from the norms of the 1600s so American English is more "true."

Apparently a genteel Georgian accent is the closest thing to Chaucer's English surviving today.
Similarly, the patois of rural Quebec is much closer to sixteenth-century French than is the speech of the average Parisian today.

 

[Desmond Hawkins]

Absolutely no proper English. Proper depends on what will best help people understand you in a given human environment.

 

[Perfection]

Bush's English

 

[Taliesin]

Bush's English

A tricky business. I'm all for teaching Bush's English in schools across the world, but first we'll need somebody to write grammatical rules that could account for the following:

This has been tough weeks in that country.
We can outcompete with anybody.
My views are one that speaks to freedom.
A peeance, freeance secure Iraq in the midst of the Middle East will have enormous historical impact.
There's a lot of things that there's misconceptions.
This is historic times.
There is such hope here in Northern Ireland that the past can be broken.
We're making the right decisions to bring the solution to an end.
The benefits of helping somebody is beneficial.
I know what I believe. I will continue to articulate what I believe and what I believe -- I believe what I believe is right.

 

[blindside]

Media English/"King's English"

I live in New Jersey but I don't think I've ever met people (maybe a few) with the "New Jersey" accent. They would pronounce it "New Joisey" for example. Same with New York accents. I've lived there for a while and been there hundreds of times and the majority of people don't have the accent. Then again most of my experience has been limited to Manhatten and a bit of Brooklyn.

 

[GrandAdmiral]

Media English aka Proper American english that you would mainly hear on the west coast is the closest thing to the dictionary pronounciations thats why I believe it is correct english. But New York or proper English accents are stronger and farther from what the pronounciations in the english dictionaries are. Everything else on the list has clearer distortions that are based more on habits than whats correct.