Re:Ask HN: Is there a pan-English accent?
by bootload on Monday September 28, 2015 @04:35AM
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"His English is fluent, if strongly accented. His Spanish, particularly on-air, is carefully neutral—pan-Latino, not noticeably Mexican."
Yes. From a migrant country like Australia, if you flick on SBS TV News, you get the same phenomena. Fluent English, accented but neutral foreign tongue. You can hear the English equivalent on BBC World News with the announcers speaking RP. [0]
Yes. From a migrant country like Australia, if you flick on SBS TV News, you get the same phenomena. Fluent English, accented but neutral foreign tongue. You can hear the English equivalent on BBC World News with the announcers speaking RP. [0]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Received_Pronunciation