Nonnative English speakers share their gripes about speaking English

Re:Nonnative English speakers share their gripes about speak... by biztos on Thursday May 20, 2021 @09:31AM (#27220887)

If you can do that in a British accent, no matter how bad it is, you will immediately be pundit material in the USA. And also more attractive!

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Re:Nonnative English speakers share their gripes about speak... by Daub on Thursday May 20, 2021 @11:43AM (#27222641)

Moving from a British university to an American one, I noticed this. People listened to me more. Scary.

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Re:Nonnative English speakers share their gripes about speak... by trashtester on Thursday May 20, 2021 @01:20PM (#27224058)

I wonder if that also applies to someone from the Hebrides. I used to have a supervisor from there, and even his English coleagues often had problem to understand his dialect....

Or is "British" still an euphemism for "English"?

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Re:Nonnative English speakers share their gripes about speak... by kadoban on Thursday May 20, 2021 @01:35PM (#27224313)

I think in this exact usage it's a euphemism for some kind of specific London accent that I don't actually know the name for.

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Re:Nonnative English speakers share their gripes about speak... by dsr_ on Thursday May 20, 2021 @02:11PM (#27224873)

RP, Received Pronounciation.

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