I’m native United Statesian myself. The only thing consistent here is inconsistent language.
Some say herbs and some say urbs.
Some parts of the country say Pop, others say Soda, and the South calls everything a Coke.
You grew up in pig piles or dog piles.
I’m the only person who say Gev instead of Gave.
Most everyone I know makes up words and phrases that get the point across but rarely has anything proper about it.
I guess if it allows you to accurately communicate something then it’s good enough.
We don’t have history or tradition to follow. Eat a cheeseburger, it’s the only American food, we don’t have any other foods. We don’t have culture or class.
Babies, powerful angry, babies…
I say it like Digital BTW
To me it’s like the Analog series and the Digital series.
Californians also says “coke” - they do not like being asked if they want any “pop” I heard it sounds more like “you want a pop in the face” as in a punch.
I drove (only) an hour and a half (from Ohio to Pennsylvania) and people asked “Where yins from? Yins different.”
For what its worth, Pacific Northwest native and i use the hard G on the pronunciations of the DT and DN. I dont particularly care one way or the other, but i think the hard G is more fun to pronounce, especially in a fake British accent.
english is lingua franca in the modern world. so i can empathize with native speakers, but … whatever.
distortion is inevitable in multi-lingual environment. people always will tend to read & pronounce certain things like they used to do in their native languages/dialects.
I always found the use of “just about” odd. I think this is an English vs everyone else thing? To me, if you “just about” do something then you didn’t manage to do that something but in England (mostly?) it seems to mean that you managed to do that something but only just.
It’s even more annoying as it’s a saying mentioned by football pundits at least a dozen times every match on TV…
I heard it sounds more like “you want a pop in the face” as in a punch.
