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[–] foggy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Go tell that to any linguist and get laughed at.

[–] wieson@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

please don't hug them to death, but https://www.dialectsarchive.com/ is a very valuable resource for actors and linguists. if you want to contribute to the archive, i haven't looked in a while but they were accepting submissions

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

The precise definition and usefulness of the term continue to be debated,[8][9][10] and the scholars who use it today admittedly do so as a convenient basis for comparison rather than for exactness

Thank you for agreeing with me, and providing sources to back up my point.

To repeat my point,

Stating that there exists a generic UK accent is as useless as suggesting there exists a generic US accent. The wikipedia article suggests that linguists by and large agree with me. So again, thanks.

[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

You and your point maybe ought to take a little break from internet stranger fight time

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

That's so sweet of you to care so much 😘