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What do you think about people who only use an accent for certain words?

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noisyturtle:
I find it incredibly condescending and annoying, unless you are speaking the entire sentence in that language.
No one but Americans do it. Not like someone from Japan or Mexico will be speaking about American food, then totally drop their native accent to say "hamburger and french fries" with a flat White guy accent. It's stupid.

Chefs especially are guilty of doing this constantly, as if naming the ingredient with an inflection makes it more respectful of the ingredient or something.

smarmar:
Humans are just plain weird.
Not sure if this fits the thread, but I have an acquaintance who speaks in a general American accent but will use a British accent on a seemingly-random word. Like, when saying "can't" he'll pronounce the "a" as the "o" in "hot". He's in his early-mid twenties, so maybe he's still acclimating to his vocal chords.  :p

tp4tissue:
It might be tourettes.

But autism spectrum in general is becoming extremely prevalent due to environmental pollution.  We've got all sorts of Weirdos like Tp4.

iri:

--- Quote from: smarmar on Sun, 09 November 2025, 19:58:41 ---Humans are just plain weird.
Not sure if this fits the thread, but I have an acquaintance who speaks in a general American accent but will use a British accent on a seemingly-random word. Like, when saying "can't" he'll pronounce the "a" as the "o" in "hot". He's in his early-mid twenties, so maybe he's still acclimating to his vocal chords.  :p

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this has nothing to do with British English

smarmar:

--- Quote from: iri on Wed, 19 November 2025, 16:22:53 ---
--- Quote from: smarmar on Sun, 09 November 2025, 19:58:41 ---Humans are just plain weird.
Not sure if this fits the thread, but I have an acquaintance who speaks in a general American accent but will use a British accent on a seemingly-random word. Like, when saying "can't" he'll pronounce the "a" as the "o" in "hot". He's in his early-mid twenties, so maybe he's still acclimating to his vocal chords.  :p

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this has nothing to do with British English

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What would you say that it is, then? Just a quirk, maybe? The way he pronounces some words sounds British to my ears.

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