• American parents say their children are speaking in British accent after watchin
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https://www.itv.com/news/2019-02-12/american-children-develop-british-accent-after-watching-peppa-pig/
So they're learning speech then
This shit already happens in reverse in literally every other English-speaking country in the world because most media consumed by children is American
God forbid they speak with an accent! The amount of American words spoken by children over here is insane now, this is payback /s
This is hilariously adorable
I attribute my long-term fondness and talent for the English language to watching Thomas the Steam Engine on TV when I was young. My parents somehow had it on TV in English, and knew I couldn't understand a word of it. But that kind of thing just predisposes you to certain stuff in the long term, I suppose.
what british accent tho, i mean this is a british accent too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU6LucqpAeE
calling me “Mummy” and finishing her sentences with Peppa’s trademark snort American Pigs 🤣
I can't speak for the rest of the world but in Poland students taught in a British accent
I was gonna say, yeah, there's genuinely no such thing as a 'British accent'. It's so bizarre that foreigners still see Brits as tea-sipping crumpet-eating snobs when, in reality, a Brit's liver treats WKD like water by the age of fourteen, the same age at which they first begin referring to fit girls as 'piff tings', and everyone that disagrees with you is a 'sket' or 'mong'. Plus, anyone that is successful is 'doin' bits' and is a propa Tory cunt. Now, if you'll 'scuse me, I'm off ta' Poundbakery cos their sausage rolls are peng, fam.
My nephew is a victim of this. Little fucker asks if we're going to the petrol station instead of the gas station.
to be fair you could say the same thing about the "american accent"
It could always be worse. Peppa could have been Australian.
Australian accents are so fun though
I almost wish some UK words would make their way to the US, because then "a boot in your ass" would carry a lot more weight with it.
Oi cunt, where's the dunny? snort
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/185499/3776ab79-a43c-4cfb-83a5-7302a5b8347d/54745675467.gif
Fun fact: A Peppa Pig episode was banned in Australia because in the episode Peppa is taught that spiders are small and can't hurt you. A sound lesson for children to not be terrified of a daddy longlegs up in Britbong Island, a deadly mistake in Th'Bush.
Can confirm, I grew up in Hong Kong where everyone was either Asian or European and the only American I knew was my dad, my brother even had an English accent for a short while before American TV and videogames beat it out of us
Yeah nah fuck off mate you wanna go or something? Getting called a cunt by your own child is a sign of affection unparalleled and completely in-communicable in any other accent
God I hate that pig. It's the snort that I can't stand.
it's ok, sometimes I watch a bit too much power rangers and I get that lil new zealand accent
My cousin used to watch a lot of Yogscast, for awhile she started talking in a Brit accent. You expose people to a culture they start to adapt parts of that culture. Same thing happens with weebs who start forcing Japanese into English conversations.
I still think George Carlin (not British, but still) and Ringo Starr narrating my childhood is the best shit
Imagine if they were fucking kiwis tho. I've never met a proper kiwi but every Aussie I know says their accent sounds inbred so idk. Personally as an ex-pat I've come to find most US accents sound fine. Except the Southern one, if you have a Southern Accent you can kindly learn another language and stop tainting the language with your filth thanks.
Its head is literally a dick and balls and it really bothers me that no one noticed this when conceptualizing it.
wow isnt it crazy that these american parents are saying that their children are speaking in a british accent after watching too much pepe pig ?
An English professor of mine said that Southern accents are actually remnants of British colonial accents. So really the south is more British than the north.
A couple of years ago after watching so much Top Gear I had a bunch of episodes straight up memorized I did speak in mostly an English accent. Even now, after it's worn off, I still pronounce certain words in a British accent and say "petrol station".
Nah mate, the kiwi accent is incredible and doesn't sound inbred at all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtWirGxV7Q8
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