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Re:When did Americans lose their British accents? by scoot on Monday February 10, 2020 @10:13AM (#22289741)
The South African accent has a much stronger Dutch influence (from Afrikaans), despite the language being English.
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Re:When did Americans lose their British accents? by Mediterraneo10 on Monday February 10, 2020 @10:41AM (#22290017)
Not quite that simple. Yes, SA English follows after certain features of Afrikaans, but some of those Afrikaans features were local innovations, not brought from the Netherlands (centralization of /i/ is one example).
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Re:When did Americans lose their British accents? by scoot on Monday February 10, 2020 @11:41AM (#22290679)
Hence "influence".
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Re:When did Americans lose their British accents? by Mediterraneo10 on Monday February 10, 2020 @01:00PM (#22291490)
My point is that that influence is not necessarily Dutch if the features in question happened in Afrikaans only after its arrival on the Cape.
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Re:When did Americans lose their British accents? by flipchart on Friday February 14, 2020 @05:36AM (#22325468)
That's only one of the English accents in SA. There are many others including an RP-like accent (which I and my friends use), the Cape Coloured accent, and the accent which most of the country's people use (as seen initially in this video https://youtu.be/KfIvbVLuCh8?t=3)
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