Most of British English was standardised around bourgeois parts of London, right? Like it always seems like BBC English is taught as "proper" English. It kinda annoys me how they tried to do away with regional dialects.

[–] regul@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"Received pronunciation" is what it's called. And they essentially beat regional accents out of you at all the elite-reproducing schools (Eton, Oxbridge)

[–] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago

I wouldn't say beat so much anymore, though that used to be the case. It still is to an extent in the acting profession, in that you're taught to perform in that accent, though that's changing too.

More like the accent just gets you made fun of or alienated, and you begin to pick up the RP accents because you're constantly surrounded by it. You never know though, although you'll pick up bits, there's a level of autonomy in linguistic convergence and divergence, that's sometimes very subconscious.