Why are so many young Americans adopting fake British accents?

Re:Why are so many young Americans adopting fake British acc... by FanaHOVA on Monday May 15, 2023 @12:21PM (#35950682)

> It's a little disconcerting to hear American words ("fall", not "autumn"), and New York accents from people who've spent their lives in Helsinki.

Why is it disconcerting? Should people adopt a British accent simply because it’s closer geographically even if most English media they consume is American?

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Re:Why are so many young Americans adopting fake British acc... by stevekemp on Monday May 15, 2023 @12:32PM (#35950849)

I can recognize my bias, but I grew up in the UK and so to me English is British-English.

Words like "fall" are something I've only heard on TV until moving here. (Or when visiting America.)

I appreciate American media is global these days, so people will pick up on the dialect, but it's still a little alien to me. I could hear "fall" a hundred times in films, but if everybody I ever spoke to about autumn holidays said "autumn" that's the one that feels more natural to hear.

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