^ No he doesn't, he is spot on - as ya knows garvn'r, me spee-in sands fekin saweeeet as!
Quote:
Originally Posted by JBaker
My favorite waitress at a local family restaurant is British. Not only is she very pretty, but her London accent is very pretty and feminine. I love it. But I promise you if she has kids in the US they will not keep her British sound. They will want to fit in with playmates at home and in school and by the time they graduate they will sound like any other American. I've seen it too many times.
True, but that's a FL cultural environment...
99% of NNS of English: 1) do not live in America; 2) mostly communicate with other NNS of English.
If they are in an even partly developed country such as Thailand, they use American English every time they pick up a smartphone or a computer or read a manual or....
Quote:
Originally Posted by JBaker
Yes, but everyone is exposed to Microsoft, linux, Unix, Apple, linux/android, Google, etc. etc. but no one I know of in the US reads the BBC or the English version of CNN.
I am not talking about being in the US, I am talking about being on the world; India, China, Thailand, etc. In the world, the cultural mix is huge and multifaceted. AE has never and will never dominate anything...
See above. They don't have to be in the US. The US comes to them in the form of the internet, smartphones, operating systems, manuals, YouTube etc. etc.
You will be pleased to know that all research points to the fact that AE is changing away from its standard cultural norms more than other form of NS English (the influence of the Spanish, African-Americans, etc), so you are being less American day by day - your first language will be Spanish in 30 years... :)