#accents — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #accents, aggregated by home.social.
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Good morning. 🌹🌹🌹
19 August 2026
I went to see one of my doctors yesterday. My wife goes with me to help interpret — my hearing makes it hard to understand people, especially if they have any kind of accent. It’s a little disconcerting because doctors often end up talking to her instead of me. I’m sitting right there thinking, Hello! I’m still here and I can hear you.
And it’s true — I can hear them well enough to catch most of what’s being said, especially my wife, whose voice I’m tuned to like a homing beacon. I can hear her in a crowded Walmart even if I’m on the other side of the store. That’s just the way it is.
Anyway, at one point during the appointment, while discussing my treatment, my doctor used the phrase “he’s special.” My brain did a double‑take. Whoa — I’m special? Isn’t that subtle code for “he’s a little slow”? My ears perked up because for a split second I wondered if I had a reputation. The phrase itself just tickled me.
Of course, I knew she meant my particular physiology — that my treatment plan needed to be slightly different from the standard approach. But it still struck me as funny.
When we got out to the car, buckled our seat belts, and I started the engine, I turned to my wife and said, “I’m special.” She laughed too, though not nearly as hard as I did.
One of the great gifts in life is being able to laugh at yourself. People who take themselves too seriously must be miserable on the inside. We’re all only here for a short time — so don’t take yourself too seriously. It’s all the same in the end.
“Life is too important to be taken seriously.” — Oscar Wilde
“He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.” — Epictetus
“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.” — Mark Twain
#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #nature #morning #rose #flower #doctor #accents #humor #laughter
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Eight British And Irish Accent Maps | Map Of British English Dialects
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https://starkeycomics.com/2024/05/10/eight-british-and-irish-accent-maps/ <-- shared technical article
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https://starkeycomics.com/2023/11/07/map-of-british-english-dialects/ <-- shared technical article
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https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-11642588 <-- shared media article
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H/T @Milan Janosov
[as a kiwi, and after seeing the ‘scone’ pronunciation in particular, I do wonder how this might translate down to the antipodes; as a barman working in London in my (much) younger days – because we all do! 😉 – hearing the huge variety of accents from a relatively small country – but with a rich history of course – was glorious, still is to me! I am also curious how people trying to ‘not to be common’ & hence trying pretentiously to emulate the Received Pronunciation (RP) / BBC English – and failing - plays into this… Now say the letter “H” out loud, if you said “aitch" then that is you 😉 :* 😊 )
“Eight maps to show how the differences in how vowels are pronounced in Britain and Ireland… These are just some of the many, many regional differences in the complex and varied accents and dialects of these [British Isles]…”
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“… The diversity of English dialects in the United Kingdom is enormous.
It’s common for people from either side of a river, mountain, or even town to speak noticeably different ways, with particular features that immediately mark someone out as being from a specific area, to those who have an ear for it.
This is pretty normal in any large region that has been speaking a language continually for 1600 years. You will find the same thing in Germany, Norway, France, and countless other countries. Languages evolve over time, and physical distance between regions means that new features often spread slowly, leading to dialectal differences. Sometimes these differences are small, and only easily recognised by people from the relevant region. Other times there are very clear distinctions, with neighbouring dialects sounding almost like different languages to those unaccustomed to them...”
#map #mapping #spatial #Rhoticity #poorpour #horsehoarse #bathtrap #footstrut #goosefoot #fullfool #greatscone #UK #Britain #Ireland #pronunciation #linguistics #regional #variations #differences #vowels #language #English #England #accents #Northern #dialects
@ryan Starkey -
Master linguist visits town with world’s most ‘perplexing’ accent and finally meets his match
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/perplexing-glaswegian-scottish-dialect-ex1/
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‘They were competing for supremacy’: Which is the oldest English accent?
Two BBC journalists go on a quest to find out whose accent is older – and uncover a dramatic history filled with hidden twists and surprises that have shaped the language we speak today.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116845783092318691
Leave it to a Brit director to plunge Ancient Greece into a sea of American accents. Hell, even Tom Holland and Robert Pattinson are hissing at each other like Yanks. What gives‽
I expect my stage & screen ancients to have crisp, Oxbridge diction, not mumbling like Robert Mitchum.
Hit those consonants hard, thespians!
🎭🇺🇲🇬🇧🏺🎬🍿🎥 🩴#Movies #Film #TheOdyssey #ChristopherNolan #Accents #Summer #Blockbuster #SandalEpic
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My partner and I went to dinner with friends last night and they asked him about where they put the vehicles repaired and waiting for repair at the garage he works for. Thus commenced a response about cahs, yahds, pahkin and garahges. Boston is losing its accent but not with this guy. I deserve an extra cocktail for controlling my laughter. #Bawstin #accents
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New podcast episode! We chatted with Valerie Fridland about accents, and her new book "Why We Talk Funny?".
https://www.alliterative.net/podcast/2026/06/15/2026/episode-125-accents-with-valerie-fridland
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I have a question specifically for people from the British Isles. What do you think about the final "t" in the word "restaurant" being silent or audible?
A — must be silent; that's just the way it's pronounced correctly
B — silent is posh, audible is normal
C — silent is British, audible is non-British (North American, for example)
D — something else (please add comment to elaborate)Boosts appreciated!
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Worked with an #acting #coaching client on #regionalisms, #accents and #dialects they absorbed where they were during their formative years speaking. Got into specifics of how placements and vowels can shift. Good to hear them do text various ways shifting between things.
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Worked with an #acting #coaching client on #regionalisms, #accents and #dialects they absorbed where they were during their formative years speaking. Got into specifics of how placements and vowels can shift. Good to hear them do text various ways shifting between things. #AccentReduction #voice
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I found this video explaining why TV/TikTok etc aren't making all accents the same, surprising and interesting:
https://youtu.be/su2IeakC7tc?si=wH_xYdH-zaxzd3kv -
Telus Uses AI to Alter Call-Agent Accents
https://letsdatascience.com/news/telus-uses-ai-to-alter-call-agent-accents-a3868f63
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Today's #RGBots tries to clear up some language misconceptions by answering a reader question by @itsFriday on Mastodon.
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If anyone needs voice acting for a project and against ai my kids dad is not a professional but he does imo perfect impressions and accents and voices and stuff so I don't know just throwing that out there. Not even sure what to use for tags for this lol #fedihire
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https://youtu.be/E7wQD4wKwjs
Antarctica Has An Accent and It's Weirder Than You Think#Linguistics #antarctica #accents #Language #ShitIFind #speech
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Working with an #acting #coaching client on an accent with material that lands so differently when more vowel substitutions are included. The entire feel of who their character is shifted. So cool to hear and see them explore those options. #ActingCoach #ActingCoaching #accents #dialects #voiceover
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Facebook reminded me of this gem:
My daughter's soccer coach had a schedule conflict and couldn't show up until the start of the second half. So I started warming the team up until the substitute coach arrived. When he showed up, he said to me -- and I quote:
"Wot tame is kack-off mint tae be?"
It took me a second to realize that A) he's from Scotland and B) he wanted to know when the match was scheduled to start.
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Brit shares the one-word ‘dead giveaway’ that American actors can’t do in an English accent
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A woman didn’t think she had an accent. A linguist proved her wrong with just one word.
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Saw some excited reaction videos lately to a clip of an Irish politician sounding Caribbean. This is a good analysis of what's going on, by Nadine White:
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/04/viral-speech-ireland-thomas-gould-colonial-history-caribbean-englishPaywall workaround:
https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/04/viral-speech-ireland-thomas-gould-colonial-history-caribbean-english#language #linguistics #colonialism #IrishEnglish #accents #Caribbean #HistoricalLinguistics #Mastodaoine
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Delivery person: Thanks for the chip!
My mouth: No worries!
My brain:
Did he have some of my chips?
Can't be, I didn't order chips.
Oh wait, did he mean 'tip'?
Of course, he must be Brazilian.
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The weird history of Spoonerisms: English's silliest slips-of-the-tongue
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/history-of-the-spoonerism
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Has anyone noticed that trump speaks with some features of the #Iowan accent? I don't think it's the accent exactly, more the cadence or enunciation maybe? I noticed this when listening to interviewees at the Iowa state fair.
I then discovered that the Iowan accent is considered the most friendly and wondered if he'd adopted this way of speaking purposefully. Fake like his tan, hair, height, weight etc.
Would love to get some opinions.
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Edit: Thanks to every one who answered. I learnt a lot about U.S. linguistics and Boston !
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How do People from Boston, America pronounce Boston?[This is just for funzies.]
Boyf and I are disagreeing 🤣