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So, basically she lost the accent from having left home so long ago. I guess arguing with her father was enough to bring it out again. The twi’lek accent is/resembles French. I’m not sure whether it’s intended to represent a different language (see any number of movie nazis speaking ‘German’) or just an accent.
Sep 13, 2011 · A native English speaker talking in French has an accent. Dialects are variants of the speaker's native language. Southern American, Cockney, New York, RP, etc, are all dialects. 2. There's no such thing as a "British" dialect. What people mean when they say "British accent" is one of several regional dialects found in England.
Dec 26, 2008 · We have an international cast -- American actors, Dutch, German, British. To have everyone approximating German accents when, in reality, they're supposed to be speaking German, which, I promise ...
Aaargh. No, Australians, New Zealanders and South Africans do not have a 'British' accent. Not at all. These accents are just as different from English accents as North American English accents are. I'm curious as to why this is. Because Canada is in North America, not in Great Britain. That is the main reason.
This is something I have noticed as a non-native English speaker. When African Americans speak, they usually have a distinct accent that differs from white Americans from the same area. However, when I listen to British people speaking I do not see a vast difference between the accents. How did this historically happen that in Britain the black ...
But there’s one more thing. It’s called “standard language ideology” and is basically the fact that speakers of the standard form (in this case American English) are considered to have no accent at all. This creates the perception that people with accent are “outsiders” and therefore more threatening. And that is why in British ...
Think of it evolutionary terms. American accents didn't evolve from what we know as British Accents (or German Accents), they both evolved from a common ancestor. Modern British accents bear little resemblance to the ones from the ones from four hundred years ago.
