Is Your English Accent British or American?

Re:Is Your English Accent British or American? by gumby on Sunday January 14, 2018 @01:27AM (#16143072)

I was insulted that it rated my Aussie lingo as "British".

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Re:Is Your English Accent British or American? by baxtr on Sunday January 14, 2018 @01:40AM (#16143113)

:-) I must say though, that for a non-native English speaker, Aussie sounds indeed much more British than American.

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Re:Is Your English Accent British or American? by adambard on Sunday January 14, 2018 @01:44AM (#16143129)

To this Canadian as well!

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Re:Is Your English Accent British or American? by sverige on Sunday January 14, 2018 @01:51AM (#16143144)

I'm American and to me, Aussie sounds Aussie, not at all British. I reckon I'd be insulted too.

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Re:Is Your English Accent British or American? by ithkuil on Sunday January 14, 2018 @04:13AM (#16143436)

But I bet Aussie doesn't sound American either. It's a binary classification, it will give spurios results if you feed it with input outside its domain.

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Re:Is Your English Accent British or American? by z0ltan on Sunday January 14, 2018 @03:55AM (#16143389)

Nonsense. Aussie sounds a lot like a lot of estuary accents, especially if they try to "posh" it up.

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Re:Is Your English Accent British or American? by shangxiao on Sunday January 14, 2018 @02:10AM (#16143179)

I was rated as 71% US ;) I wonder if the various accents of Australia rate differently or whether I'm influenced too much by foreign media.

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Re:Is Your English Accent British or American? by lostlogin on Sunday January 14, 2018 @03:27AM (#16143324)

My Kiwi accent is 96% British. Is that more of less British and an Aussie accent?

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Re:Is Your English Accent British or American? by z0ltan on Sunday January 14, 2018 @03:55AM (#16143391)

Are you from Melbourne or Adelaide?

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