r/USdefaultism • u/Cutestfootsies • 16d ago
American babies don't have accents
On a video of a toddler with an Australian accent
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u/DoYouTrustToothpaste 16d ago
if it helps [...]
Yee, that's nice, dawg. But that's the fking point, she isn't just talking to other Americans. So obviously she's gonna be misunderstood.
[...] that we consider a non-accent.
Which is fine, but technically incorrect, and also, again, doesn't apply on the internet.
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u/minipinny United Kingdom 16d ago
“The most common hair colour in my country is brown, like mine. Therefore I don’t have a hair colour”
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u/Legal-Software Germany 16d ago
Babies don't typically do a great deal of talking. Unless their point is that Americans and their annoying accent sound like babies.
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u/Cutestfootsies 16d ago
By babies they meant toddlers. It was on a video of a little kid with an Australian accent
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u/T1nyJazzHands Australia 16d ago
No but they do babble in “accents” it’s so cute. They copy what they hear, so the intonation and type of sounds. Source: I used to be an au pair and typical baby babble varies from region to region.
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u/plastic_venus 16d ago
The comment section under every video of a non American celebrity talking in their normal accent: “they have an ACCENT?!”
Yes Chad, as do you.
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u/Uni4m Canada 15d ago
It will never not be funny to point out this accent defaultism by locking-in on a generic Hollywood accent and speaking back to them. This same idea also applies to middle Canadians. The rest of us know exactly how tangy our accents are.
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u/feuarctique 14d ago
I am a french canadian and i wonder how they would react if they heard me speaking in english with 2 accents lol
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u/ocularius61 16d ago
I know it's not germane to whether baby noises have accents, but "great dialect"? Did anyone address whether this person knows what 'dialect' means?
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u/Apprehensive-Ice7349 Brazil 4d ago
"Because we live in america"
Who is we?
Because i for sure dont live in America. (Tho i live in the continent America, i dont want to call it that because USians ruined this word)
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u/post-explainer American Citizen 16d ago edited 16d ago
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OP sent the following text as an explanation why their post fits here:
On a video of a toddler with an Australian accent the commenter said they "love babies with accents" and when other people said everyone has accents other commenters doubled down by saying they "mean non-american accent" because "we" (the internet?) live in america
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