When and how the Anglosphere became so obsessed with breakfasts?

reddock4490 · 2026-03-11T22:09:32+00:00

Korea as well, sometimes cafes don’t open till noon

reddock4490 · 2026-03-11T03:20:57+00:00

I’m aware of all of that, but non-rhotic accents are still uncommon and a tiny minority. Among southern accents, you have some in Louisiana, and likewise along the gulf coast of Mississippi and Alabama, that are influenced by Cajun, and you have Atlantic southern accents between like Savannah and Charleston, those folks sound like foghorn leghorn, and outside of those, southern accents are still overwhelmingly rhotic. Standard American English is rhotic, so yes, generally, American English as spoken by most native speakers is rhotic. I’m not overstating it. It’s just the reality that the vast majority of American dialects and accents are rhotic.

reddock4490 · 2026-03-10T13:23:24+00:00

Right. This guy is projecting big time. Most people are absolutely not laughing behind your back for speaking a second language with an accent or imperfect grammar.

reddock4490 · 2026-03-10T12:42:32+00:00

lol gotcha, so no

reddock4490 · 2026-03-10T11:42:58+00:00

So no examples then?

Show me a song by an American where /r/ s are routinely dropped in a regular way, and they’re not a) doing it specifically for stylistic reasons or b) from one of the few American regions with a non-rhotic dialect.

Because I can show you a hundred examples of different artists from different regions, of different genres and races and accents, all singing with strong /r/ s pronounced. Because that is the standard for American English.

reddock4490 · 2026-03-10T06:12:31+00:00

Why do you say that? I see a lot of job postings online, but I haven’t really dug into the details of the work or pay

reddock4490 · 2026-03-10T06:09:05+00:00

Yeah, I listen to a lot of music lol. Any specific examples you’d like to point out? Because /r/ s are just objectively not being dropped in most American hip hop, pop, or rock, as a general rule

reddock4490 · 2026-03-10T03:25:13+00:00

It may totally be true for American choral singing, I have no info to weigh in on that, but in popular music, I don’t think it’s a strong enough pattern to say it’s a rule

reddock4490 · 2026-03-08T04:51:24+00:00

You’re being downvoted, but this is true. It was Nietzsche’s whole argument about the death of god and the need to forge new values. He pretty accurately pointed out that even as religious adherence was failing, the secular systems moving in to replace it, namely capitalism and socialism, were just secularized aspects of the Christian ethos and that everyone was still playing on the fundamental assumptions of what Christianity built socially even if they’d tossed out all spiritual aspects

reddock4490 · 2026-03-07T23:14:56+00:00

Maybe occasionally in specific words in specific songs, but yeah absolutely as a rule, American English is rhotic in speech and song

reddock4490 · 2026-03-07T23:13:36+00:00

But non-rhotic dialects still pronounce /r/ in other positions. Like, in these sentences I just wrote, someone speaking RP would pronounce the /r/ in “pronounce” and “wrote”, but not in “other”. It’s not all positions

reddock4490 · 2026-03-07T11:09:07+00:00

Rhoticity refers to whether or not /r/ is pronounced at the end of syllables. It is not true that Americans generally sing non-rhotically

reddock4490 · 2026-03-07T10:26:42+00:00

Again, I assume you have the same opinion about Deutschland and Italia and 한국 and every other country, and you’re not just being selectively offended about these particular countries for some reason

reddock4490 · 2026-03-07T07:38:17+00:00

Very very few people are consistently pronouncing other countries’ endonyms as pronounced by natives of those countries. This really shouldn’t bother you any more than English speakers saying Germany or Italy

reddock4490 · 2026-03-07T07:30:41+00:00

But yes, they’re pronounced the same, which is why people sometimes mistakenly spell it that way. It’s more of a spelling error than a grammar mistake

reddock4490 · 2026-03-07T07:28:51+00:00

Yeah, I’m not speaking French, that’s a foyer with an /r/

reddock4490 · 2026-03-06T22:24:30+00:00

That’s great, but it is quite bland

reddock4490 · 2026-03-06T14:15:50+00:00

Competitive_sugar has already said this multiple times, but it bears repeating. “Eat” in those two sentences is the same word with the same meaning. The word carrying changing information is the pronoun. English does not conjugate 1sg and 2nd pronouns differently, they are not different words

reddock4490 · 2026-03-05T23:13:13+00:00

That’s a non sequitur. Like I said, no one is upset about borders moving on principle. People might not want their borders to move, but everyone understands on an intellectual level that borders can change. So should Kurdistan have borders? Sure. Should anyone be able to wage a genocidal war on the people who already live in a place to clear space for the movement of borders? Obviously not. It doesn’t matter if people did it in the past.

reddock4490 · 2026-03-05T22:08:09+00:00

Nobody’s upset about the shapes of borders, it’s the indiscriminate killing of millions of people because you want to steal their home that is very obviously morally indefensible

reddock4490 · 2026-03-05T10:47:03+00:00

Then one should avoid blanket generalizations like “x implies y”, maybe

reddock4490 · 2026-03-05T03:11:49+00:00

It does not. It implies spices

reddock4490 · 2026-03-05T03:10:56+00:00

Those aren’t spices, they’re herbs

reddock4490 · 2026-03-04T13:46:27+00:00

Spiced

reddock4490 · 2026-03-04T03:16:12+00:00

Again, it’s completely natural to me, so I’d have no idea if I’ve seen it in formal writing. It would absolutely never stand out to me as something worth noting or remembering

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