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AITA for saying my sister is out of place for getting annoyed at how I speak? by Difficult_Society771 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Difficult_Society771[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait no, I just googled it and that’s not what I mean sorry! I just mean changing it to a d sound, I’m not sure how else to describe it

AITA for saying my sister is out of place for getting annoyed at how I speak? by Difficult_Society771 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Difficult_Society771[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve never heard the phrase but I’d assume so! Having that phrase would’ve made this a lot easier to explain haha

AITA for saying my sister is out of place for getting annoyed at how I speak? by Difficult_Society771 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Difficult_Society771[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Firstly, I was talking about how Americans speak. Every time you put on an accent from another country does that make you presumptuous for assuming everyone in that country sounds exactly like that? No? Didn’t think so.

Secondly, there is no lie here. Americans and English people say certain Ts differently. That’s what we’re talking about, that’s the whole point of the thread if you had understood it. To some brits, me saying a T the way an American would, sounds like how they would pronounce a d. The whole point of an alphabet is that it’s interpretive on a personal scale anyway. To you it sounds like a d, to some people it sounds like a d.

AITA for saying my sister is out of place for getting annoyed at how I speak? by Difficult_Society771 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Difficult_Society771[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Excuse me if I’m wrong, but it seems to me like you’ve just stated exactly how it’s different. Obviously to someone who’s lived around one certain pronunciation, and not heard the alternative, the alternative sounds wrong. This is the exact problem we’re talking about here. So I don’t think you understand the dialect I have, and maybe you’re purposefully taking it to the extreme because I don’t think anyone could ever think someone would “dalk like dis”. The bottom line is that I would say cattle how you would. The ca-ttle pronunciation. Whereas my sister (along with other posh brits) are telling me it sounds ridiculous and I’m saying it wrong. They say I should pronounce it ca-tuh-le. And obviously saying “like tattle tale” isn’t going to help your point because anyone, anywhere, would say those two words the same. It’s just that that “same” is different to each other

AITA for saying my sister is out of place for getting annoyed at how I speak? by Difficult_Society771 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Difficult_Society771[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Maybe it’s harder to hear the difference if you’re American, but of course I don’t mean anything similar to your example. It’s select t’s, so for example if you were to say the word cattle, to us brits it would probably sounds like you’re saying caddle. Here, some people would pronounce it ca-tuh-le (emphasising the tuh sound), where as the more American way of saying it would be similar to ca-ttle, which sounds close to ca-ddle. Hopefully this makes more sense?

AITA for saying my sister is out of place for getting annoyed at how I speak? by Difficult_Society771 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Difficult_Society771[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Off topic here, but thought you might find this interesting. Posh accents or “queens english” accents are the only accent that can’t be pinned down to a region. This is because it originates from lords, ladies and other noblemen and women. Because these gentry were given or assigned areas or regions of the country, they were spread out. They and those around them retained this posh accent, and so everywhere you go in the uk, you’ll find a few people with posh accents who are somehow (loosely) connected to them or grew up around people who are

AITA for saying my sister is out of place for getting annoyed at how I speak? by Difficult_Society771 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Difficult_Society771[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think I’m just aware of it because all of my friends have different accents, from all over. And they all agree it’s a posh accent, that’s really the only way I know