What even are accents?

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What even are accents?
Tweet Topic Started: Apr 22 2015, 08:59 PM (372 Views)
+ Steve	Apr 22 2015, 08:59 PM Post #1
Greetings. I will be your waifu this season. Posts: 19,471 Group: Legend Member #5,710 Joined: February 7, 2011 Gender Male Country United Kingdom Favourite Anime Hunter x Hunter(2011) What Browser do you use? Mozilla Firefox Favourite Manga Berserk all day erry day	Why are there so many accents in the world and where did they come from? Humans from different regions probably had different accents I'd imagine but why are there different ones per country, often per town today? Did people just decide to talk differently and then everyone just sort of adopted that growing up or what? If so why, just to be different? I just find it really weird, like who decided the stereotypical way for Australians to speak? Different languages make sense but when it comes to English even people who have it as their first language sound totally different place to place. Societal in part I guess but...why?
	Definitely not a succubus, fear not


Buuberries	Apr 22 2015, 09:03 PM Post #2
No Posts: 7,150 Group: Members Member #8,753 Joined: December 30, 2012 Gender Not Specified Country None Favourite Anime The Passion of Christ What Browser do you use? Christianity Favourite Manga The Bible	i dont think it's a case of choosing to talk differently. different languages have different sounds, sentence structures, blahblahblah etc etc., and i guess it just affects the way your tongue is physically used when you speak, so when you speak another language it carries over and you end up with a different accent. tl;dr differences in phonetics and phonology. i actually have no idea and this is just an educated guess lol
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+ Pelador	Apr 22 2015, 09:34 PM Post #3
Crazy Awesome Legend Posts: 25,663 Group: Legend Member #4,634 Joined: December 12, 2009 Gender Not Specified Country None Favourite Anime HunterxHunter What Browser do you use? Firefox Favourite Manga Dragonball	It's not entirely about language since we have so many sub dialects within our own communities. For instance where I live if you listen to people from the Chaddlewood area, they sound completely different to people from Devonport. Based on that I think that it's just communities of people inventing their own way of speaking. Same reason we have slang basically.
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+ Steve	Apr 23 2015, 02:10 AM Post #4
Greetings. I will be your waifu this season. Posts: 19,471 Group: Legend Member #5,710 Joined: February 7, 2011 Gender Male Country United Kingdom Favourite Anime Hunter x Hunter(2011) What Browser do you use? Mozilla Firefox Favourite Manga Berserk all day erry day	Yeah it seems like it's on purpose a lot of the time. In my town people don't pronounce t's in some words properly(f*** me if I remember which my brain is resting) but the next town literally 3 miles away talk totally different. I just wonder how these things are decided. First person to use typical Scottish things must have sounded like a right idiot. "Awright bawbags git yer heids oot yer arses" "Dave, why on Earth are you talking like that?" "I just...want to feel special"
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+ Pelador	Apr 23 2015, 02:14 AM Post #5
Crazy Awesome Legend Posts: 25,663 Group: Legend Member #4,634 Joined: December 12, 2009 Gender Not Specified Country None Favourite Anime HunterxHunter What Browser do you use? Firefox Favourite Manga Dragonball	Maybe some really respected person had a stroke but because it was ancient times no one knew what that was so they all started copying him thinking he was just being cool? Mine was clearly people who were drunk all day so it just became the normal way to speak.
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* Mitas	Apr 23 2015, 07:53 AM Post #6
It truly was a Shawshank redemption Posts: 12,129 Group: Retired Staff Member #2,993 Joined: December 16, 2007 Gender Male Favourite Anime DBZ What Browser do you use? Google Chrome Favourite Manga DBZ, Full Metal Alchemist	I always thought it was caused by one group of people mixing with another, via close border proximity, or invasion/settling, causing the two dialects to mix, ending up with the people a few generations down the line talking in accents influenced by both dialects.
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Darker	Apr 23 2015, 12:40 PM Post #7
The Lord of the Dark Posts: 15,358 Group: Member Member #11,968 Joined: January 7, 2015 Gender Male Country Spain	Just ignore any accent as long as you can talk the same language as someone, if it annoys you.
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