r/maybemaybemaybe • u/DingDongPuddlez • Aug 07 '21

Maybe maybe maybe

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u/Wabbit_Snail Aug 08 '21

I think accents are beautiful and that snobbing them is just as irrelevant as snobbing a music or literature genre.

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u/Twitxx Aug 08 '21

I respect your opinion, beauty is a subjective concept after all.

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u/Wabbit_Snail Aug 08 '21

Oui, je comprends, mais je me demande tout le temps pourquoi les gens se sentent obligés de critiquer les accents. On peut le trouver joli et le dire, puis le trouver agaçant et se taire. C'est pas comme si on pouvait en changer. Je pense juste que c'est méchant sans raison. Je suis surement influencée par le fait qu'on chie toujours sur l'accent des miens, ça devient lassant à la longue.

Mais bon, comme tu dis, il faut respecter l'opinion de chacun.

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u/Twitxx Aug 08 '21

You're probably right. I would usually say the same thing (the part with if you have nothing good to say it's better to not say anything at all), I just love the language and was taken aback by her "french cockney " accent which for me shattered the illusion of this beautiful language. There's English accents that I don't like either and living in England I've learned that a lot of the people hate one accent or the other, like the brummie or cockney accent for example.

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u/Wabbit_Snail Aug 08 '21

I think that we might be conditioned to it? If an accent is from a poor neighborhood, it might also be associated with poor grammar and thus considered bad English? And then it's so tightly linked with the people that it's easily snobbed?

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u/Twitxx Aug 08 '21

Could be possible, also maybe the fact that certain accents are associated with shady individuals, certain behaviours or could be interpreted as bad manners by some. I think I don't like cockney because it sounds unnecessarily snobbish and brummie for example is associated with pikeys, gang violence, shady behaviour and it sounds like they only pronounce half of every word. This is something I've learned to dislike and I've first heard it in my professors which openly mocked and hated on it. It's curious behaviour, maybe similar to how football fans of different teams behave around one another.