#accents
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**Are Scottish accents really more aggressive? A linguist explains**
Amanda Cole
_“Many presume that Scottish accents sound harsh or, as they are often unfortunately characterised, gruff because of some inherent property: the throaty, fricative sound in loch, the striking glottal stop for “t” as in Fern Brady’s pronunciation of Scottish and the audible r’s in words like car.”_
https://theconversation.com/are-scottish-accents-really-more-aggressive-a-linguist-explains-253375.
#Linguistics #Scotland #Accents #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain @linguistics
Does that thing that scousers do now where they turn the last syllable in a sentence into a three-syllable sing-song have a name?
It’s been around a good few years, but no one did it when I studied in Liverpool (92 to 96)
'Times may be getting tougher but a hell of a lot of people are committed to doing good. And the best of the good is the #nature that makes up our planet.' 
https://steadyhq.com/en/naturematchcuts/posts/718b5dba-b9d3-448b-96a7-38e99d4ef017
My new blog post about #writing in hard times, developing a story, messy mind palace rooms, #accents, and the sweet poison of #passion. @writers @writing
#storytelling #podcasting #blog #naturelovers #accent #languages #interviews #moreThanHuman #creativity #journalism #solarpunk #hopepunk #author
World’s Largest Call Center Company Has Invested $13M in AI Technology to Modify Indian Agent’s Accents in Real Time https://www.byteseu.com/791082/ #accents #AI #AiTechnology #AmericanCompany #call #ConnectionProblem #CustomerService #HumanBeing #india #IndianAgent #LanguageBarrier #people #RealTime #Technology #thing #World
New post on Werner Herzog's voice, accent, mimics, and related matters:
https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2025/02/25/werner-herzog-on-his-voice-and-its-mimics/
#film #dialect #WernerHerzog #accents #language #blogging #speech #translation #words
Few voices in film are as distinctive and cherished…
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Southerners among worst at spotting fake English accents, study finds
Ian Sample
“Are southern English accents simply easier to fake than others? Goodman thinks not. Instead, he sees cultural evolution at work. A person’s accent is a signal of their social identity, and the history of tensions across the UK could have brought northerners, Scots and others closer together, making them more attuned to outsiders.”
#UK #UnitedKingdom #GB #Britain #Accents #English #Language #Research #News
@EllenInEdmonton on which subject, a video from an interview at a National Ploughing Championships this year, which are a Big Thing.
Good Luck.
A sociolinguistic note on h-dropping from Raymond Chandler
More on "haitch" in this post: https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2013/11/19/an-aitch-or-a-haitch-lets-ear-it/
#phonetics #linguistics #RaymondChandler #accents #sociolinguistics #language #aitch #speech #reading
MY RESPONSE:
My father's side of the family, native to Massachusetts for awhile, used to pronounce "aunt" with the "au" sound not just the short "a" even when I used to as a kid from Pennsylvania. So it never sounded totally wrong to me ...
Unique style, all right ... Let's see, per Wikipedia, he was born and raised in a small town in Pennsylvania, where his family had run a hardware store for generations. So, a Pennsylvanian sound. And I like this critic's description of him in an early movie: "lanky young bumpkin with a hesitant manner of speech." Ha!
If you're South African and looking for love, perhaps try someone from #Ireland? Apparently, they consider our accent to be the sexiest in the world! 
https://lovin.ie/entertainment/features/these-are-the-sexiest-50-accents-in-the-world-ranked?utm_source=Mastodon #SouthAfrica #accents
