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Originally Posted by Anonymous what does american english sound like to british people, and vice versa?
maybe it's only me being so narrow minded and stereotyped but british english seemes to have more class while american english sounds "cool" for whatever reason. I'm not saying that british people actually have more class over americans or that american people are cooler than british people. that's just what their way of talking sound like to me( not that i prefer one to the other.)
i know there are so many other countries where they speak the english language but i havent had an opportunity to talk to people from those countries. so i dont know what they sound like. oh wait, i met this guy from perth, australia before. he sure sounded differently.( i still dont have a definite stereotype about australian english yet, though. it was a 5 minutes conversation)
anyway, my question is "is there such a thing as universal english?" if yes, what is it? or what the closest version to it? |
If you are referring to spoken English, there is not one British English and one American English as accents and pronunciation are somewhat variable. An American from Boston would sound much different from a Texan or a Georgian. The same is true in Britain. I don't think there is a universal spoken English.