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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

just wanna be able to live without worrying about affording a doctor appointment.

If you avoid the flatlander areas, Canada may be for you. We also speak English; just, without the accent. :-P

(unless you live on the island that's an hour's ferry from France)

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Speaking a language without an accent is like wearing clothes without a material

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Idk I'm from the central US and I had a German foreign exchange student tell me we didn't have a mimicable accent. I know it's not true but it was interesting to hear that from someone who's familiar with everyone around her speaking in a completely different way, even when using English.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

That's common if you don't know a language too well. There is the variant that you learned, and since you don't know more, you think that this variant has no accent and all the other variants (that you didn't learn and thus are hard to understand) you think have accents.

Only once you spent significant time with multiple accents will you be able to pick up the differences.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Or typing without a font.

That said, I think they were having a dig at how some Americans believe they have "no accent" because they (think they) sound like movie people.