What is the real english?

[emzie]

California/"Media" English

American Media English is actually lower midwest. Much like a BBC accent, lower midwest sounds as if you are from nowhere and everywhere. Most of PA, Ohio south of Lake Erie, Indiana, Illinois outside of Chicago.

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

I hate to annoy the British posters here, but this is true. British English is very bastardized. Try pronouncing words the way they're spelled -- something Americans do. Take the city Canturbury. It should be pronounced can-tur-bur-y, yet, y'all lost a sylable somewhere. Not sure how, but you did....

 

[Oruc]

shouldnt it be the Queens english?
but anyway considering the language is called English and im gonna say its how the English people speak it, considering its named after us.

 

[CenturionV]

Wow, I can't really see the relevance of this thread? How can you have "real" or "fake" english? If you speak english does it really matter if you have an accent? Even the spelling of words and such is not 100% conformed for instance the word "sabre" or "saber" as are spelling rules, I'm not an english teacher, but I can bet that if you got an australian, a eastern canadian, and a southern american english teacher together they would vary far and wide on many things.

Its just a language, its not static, in 100 years english will be somewhat different than now, 500 years it might be pretty heavily different. 1000 years and it might not even be considered the same language. Even the people in england speaking english are not speaking some kind of idealized original english, as english has simply morphed out of other languages through history, there is no 100% correct way to speak english IMHO.

 

[GrandAdmiral]

shouldnt it be the Queens english?
but anyway considering the language is called English and im gonna say its how the English people speak it, considering its named after us.

According to that thought, if you decided to speak Spanish and call it English that would be the correct way to speak English? The English wrote the dictionary, invented most of the words and made records on how they are supposed to be pronounced. Deviating from that is not correct its a habit. If the records were changed to account for your accents then it would be different.

 

[YNCS]

I've always thought the Irish accent is the most pleasant to listen to.

 

[Knowze Gungk]

8) Australian English: Think the crocodile hunter.

I see it said over & over again, nobody seems to understand it, but I'll say it again anyway. Nobody speaks like that, Erwin only puts on his "funny voice" for publicity.

As for the question, the real english is, in fact, Swazi.

 

[Tomoyo]

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.

There's a difference between Manhattan accents and Brokklyn accents. For example, a brooklyn accent is more likely to use a "d" sound instead of "th", but the Manhattan one sounds more like "dt". Brooklynites also have more nasal short a's.

 

[Nobody]

Kiwi english, similer to australian except they pronouce i's like e's, e.g. Feeeeeeesh they also say sex instead of six which is very funny. aussies say new zealands say things like Pug insted of pig but there just dumb and wrong.

 

[Oruc]

According to that thought, if you decided to speak Spanish and call it English that would be the correct way to speak English? The English wrote the dictionary, invented most of the words and made records on how they are supposed to be pronounced. Deviating from that is not correct its a habit. If the records were changed to account for your accents then it would be different.

theres no way you people talk real English, at best you talk ****e

 

[Warman17]

I see it said over & over again, nobody seems to understand it, but I'll say it again anyway. Nobody speaks like that, Erwin only puts on his "funny voice" for publicity.

As for the question, the real english is, in fact, Swazi.

I already put a disclaimer in there about wanting really strong accents

 

[YotoKiller]

I guess then only American built airplanes are the only real airplanes also. Everyother airplanes are just copies and not built right at all.

Nobody owns a language. There is no British patten on the English language as far as I know.

 

[mrtn]

I guess then only American built airplanes are the only real airplanes also. Everyother airplanes are just copies and not built right at all.
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No, everyone else builds aeroplanes.

 

[HighlandWarrior]

Scottish, we took the kings english and gave it some of our overflowing scottish testosterone.

 

[Bugfatty300]

No, everyone else builds aeroplanes.

But still I think that was part of his point.....

 

[GrandAdmiral]

theres no way you people talk real English, at best you talk ****e

If you are trying to make an example you have your geography confused.

 

[mrtn]

But still I think that was part of his point.....

Maybe it was and maybe it wasn't; there's still no reason not to make a joke.

 

[Sims2789]

There is no one correct English, but I just said "My own English" for the fun of it.

 

[Yom]

There is no "real English," so I voted "other (my own English)."

 

[Smellincoffee]

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

That's not really correct. Over time, the southern accent has been diluted by media exposure, so it's not nearly as bad as those films portray it. In addition, education is a lot better than it was back then. I'm always annoyed by people thinking we sound like they do in movies about the deep south- the accents are always exaggerated.

 

[Cuivienen]

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.

The New York accent only really exists in Brooklyn any more, and I think the New Jersey accent is little more than a urban legend; I've never heard it, though I have heard "Newark accents" that are just variants of the New York accent.