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sasiku
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14 May 2011, 1:45 am

Neutral accent - An accent the world understands.



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14 May 2011, 3:24 am

sasiku wrote:
Neutral accent - An accent the world understands.


There is no such thing as a neutral accent. What may seem neutral to one region would sound accented in another region. So for example if you have a Brit with a "neutral accent" and an American with a "neutral accent" and move them to the other country both would have a pronounced accent to the ears of the natives.


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14 May 2011, 1:27 pm

sasiku wrote:
Neutral accent - An accent the world understands.


Do you, perchance, hail from the nice little island country of Japan?



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14 May 2011, 1:37 pm

Newsreaders try to have a neutral accent, and the American ones tend to speak pretty much the same. I haven't heard a lot of English newsreaders, but I understand their speech better than people on other English shows. The two don't sound alike, but they sound more alike than a rural Yorkshireman and a rural Texan sound alike.

I'd define a neutral accent as speech which more people will understand easily, so I mostly agree.



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15 May 2011, 1:11 pm

According to the people that I deal with on the phone, it seems to be that way.


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23 May 2011, 6:57 am

Assimilation, and not imitation, is prompting BPO workers to discard their disguises. Call centre and BPO workers used to hide behind foreign accents, undisclosed locations and anglicised names. But today `global' English or `neutral' accents are the norm.


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23 May 2011, 7:00 am

sasiku wrote:
Assimilation, and not imitation, is prompting BPO workers to discard their disguises. Call centre and BPO workers used to hide behind foreign accents, undisclosed locations and anglicised names. But today `global' English or `neutral' accents are the norm.


Global English often sounds like American English to me.



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23 May 2011, 12:15 pm

jrjones9933 wrote:
Newsreaders try to have a neutral accent, and the American ones tend to speak pretty much the same. I haven't heard a lot of English newsreaders, but I understand their speech better than people on other English shows. The two don't sound alike, but they sound more alike than a rural Yorkshireman and a rural Texan sound alike.

I'd define a neutral accent as speech which more people will understand easily, so I mostly agree.


"Neutral accent" being the accent of Newsia.


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