You can choose normal, fancy, or wildcard.

They're a lumberjack and that's ok!
- I cut down trees, I skip and jump
  I like to press wild flowers
  I put on women's clothing
  And hang around in bars

Let's be real here, we usually just stick all of them in a blender and pour ourselves one glass of perfectly mixed accent juice

This! My English accent is so all over the place, I can't even spot the differences if I hear them. I can't tell, If someone is British, American, Australian etc because I mix them up so much myself
- I'm quite found of accents myself, like that SS officer in the bar scene from Inglorious Basterds lol, would love to have a conversation and dissect it

I feel like all three of those accents have normal/fancy/wildcard options within them

As an Aussie I can confirm we have normal & wildcard, anyone trying fancy is just a knobhead.
I've had a scottish-texan accent for half a year once, and now I have an american accent sometimes while speaking german, my mother language, shit's wild
- Scottish-Texan? I can’t even comprehend what that would sound like. Congratulations, you’ve been speaking an eldritch tongue. Try not to summon Cthulhu.
Actually, I'd like to have my accent sound like a white south african, like how Leonardo DiCaprio speaks in blood diamond.
- As a white South African, I'd like to not sound like one
Ocracoke Brogue

Why choose when you can just randomly mix them

Just choose Australian. Tbh we don't care how you say it just be loud.
- Just call them prawns, that's all we ask.
- Oh boi, I'm too introverted to ever be loud
  Think of it more as a whisper, just loud enough to be heard :')

I have a buddy who learned English as a second language early in life and he has a fluent Irish accent. I've never been able to wrap my head around that one.

I'm Canadian in Ontario and the first five years of my life, all I spoke or heard was my cultural language Ojibway-Cree. I went to school where I learned English but continued to only mostly speak my language.
Then I spent an awkward period as a teenager speaking English with a Native accent ... a classic TV stereotypical Native accent and it was horrible. It took me about a decade to get over that phase, now I speak English as boringly as any Canadian. Not bad eh?
- Have you seen Reservation Dogs? I've heard that Willie Jack has a Canadian Native accent, is that the case?
It's always so interesting to hear surprise accents.
- I once took a short trip through the south of Germany near Nuremberg ... we were just on a random trip not knowing what we were doing in a rental car. We stopped at a gas station to get gas and got some help from an attendant, a young German teenager who spoke some English.
  He talked to us in the weirdest accent I ever heard ... a combination of English with a German accent and a touch of southern Texan or southern American. He had grown up learning English from army personnel from the American US base nearby.

I lived in South Korea for a while and I met a South Korean young lady who had learned English from an Australian teacher. This Korean girl had the most beautiful Australian accent with a hint of Korean. She was very talkative, Asian people get excited when they meet english-speakers so they can practice speaking English with us. So she talked a lot. It was a beautiful culture medley.

In order of appearance: wildcard, simplified, traditional.

Ironically, US English is in many ways more traditional than UK English. The US uses many words and phrases that used to be common to both continents but later changed in the UK.
US did try to de-French most spellings with mixed success.
- Yeah, but there's still the tendency to simplify things (e.g. "color" vs "colour") and the ever shortening of phrases as if it's difficult to say the whole thing ("macaroni and cheese").

My English accent usually depends on the most common accent in the podcasts I've been hearing that week

Lmao

Haha you'll never take my French accent away!

By trying to get rid of it I accidentally took the German accent, not sure how that works
- Eh I'm not even trying, I try to articulate more but it's hard, also everyone tells me it's great so 🤷

arrives late….

Cunts….

I don't think you choose, it's just kinda what you grow up around

OMG our usernames can be emojis??
- It's a cosmetic thing. @mojo@lemm.ee here has set a display name in addition to their username, which I believe supports any unicode character.

I know a 100% native english speaker, who randomly switches between british, australian, Scottish and American accents.

As an American I feel like either US or UK could be considered the "normal" one, UK or AUS the "fancy" one, and US and AUS the "wildcard" (from the UK perspective).

Oh UK would definitely be the fancy one. It would need to be like a David Attenborough accent though
- Implying a Cockney accent isn't fancy
Australian as the fancy one??
- Fancy maybe wouldn't be the best word, perhaps exotic, but I know there's plenty of us who, depending on the Aussie, might not be able to tell the accent from a British one and just go "ooh, accent, fancy".

I think Finnish school teaches the American pronunciation.

In my case; western games further hammered that down between my ears.

Interesting. German schools teach British English. It's with time that I was more and more influenced by American English but first and foremost I have a strong German accent
- In the UK, schools largely teach European French/Spanish/etc.
  I wish more European countries would teach European (British) English.
I think it was British pronunciation considering that (at least when I was still in school) we also learned to write British English instead of American English.
Later on in high school they said you could write either, but you had to stick to one or it would count as a mistake.
- When were you in school?
  I think about the 2000-2011 time period (from 3rd grade to trade school).

No no, I speak a combination of the three. Although American English dominates my accent. That's what you get when you grow up watching English-speaking media. You pick up their accents and you make one of your own.

In Europe we call it "Euro-English"

Ngl as someone who speaks British English I find Europeans with American accents hot
- Ah right, Americans that aren't actually American, gotcha.
  Or is it not just us Euro folks but the Accent in general?

I got mine originally from TV, as in my country everything is subtitled, so that means I ended up with an americanized accent (it isn't really an "american" accent because there is no such things as an american accents but rather several).

It was of course poluted by my own native language (portuguese, from Lisbon) accent.

Then I went and lived in The Netherlands for almost a decade so my accent started adding dutch "effects" (like a "yes" that sounds more like "ya", similar to the dutch "ja").

And after that I lived for over a decade in England, so my accent moved a lot towards the English RP accent. In fact I can either do my lazy accent (which is the mix of accents I have) or pull it towards a pretty decent English RP accent if needed for clarity.

By this point I can actually do several English Language accents, though mostly only enough to deceive foreigners rather than locals - so, say, a Scottish accent that will deceive Americans but Brits can spot it as not really being any of the various Scottish accents - including the accents of foreign language speakers in English (i.e. how a french or italian will sounds speaking english or even the full-force portuguese accent when speaking english, which I don't naturally have anymore).

That said, IMHO it is very hard for somebody who grew up in a foreign country speaking a foreign language to fine tune their accent so that it sounds perfect to the ears of a local, and this is valid for all languages, not just English.

No thanks. We non-native/native english speaker from South East Asia have our own accent.

Singapore goes "laaaaa".

Ya call that an accent?

Americans for some reason don't like it when you say they speak with an accent. It's pretty interesting.

Oi cunt!

The bogan talk fits my gopnik soul like cat's pyjamas

American, have considered immigrating just for the ability to use this phrase on the reg.

As a native speaker, I agree.

But the way check out c/Englishlearning if you are learning English.

There is not much there, but I’m happy to help and answer questions.

c/Englishlearning
englishlearning@lemmy.ml
is this the right link to the community you are talking about? I thought I'd help by creating the link. It's not easy to get those links sometimes.
- put a ! in front of your link and it will open in the users home instance. !englishlearning@lemmy.ml
- Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !englishlearning@lemmy.ml
- Thanks for the link. I feel like I never do it right 😂
Do you know is there something like this for German?
- Yes, there's !deutsch_lernen@feddit.de .
- You could try
  c/Englischlernen
- I have no idea. I hope you find one.

It's just as bad in spanish. I'm an american with a colombian paisa accent in spanish and it messes with the mexicans. They love it since it's not what they usually hear.

Whenever someone who speaks Spanish asks me if I speak it, I always respond, “Oon pokeeto, paro solaminty en oon assento Gringo.” Gets either a laugh or a groan every time. 😈
I think Americans usually learn Mexican Spanish. That's definitely what I learned, güey.

I once did one of those quizzes that figures out where your American accent is from and I got mostly LA and midwest. Makes sense since I learned from watching TV shows.

Wait how does that work?
- There's many regional differences in American English.
  First, pronunciation is always changing, and changes tend to happen regionally.
  For example, there's the Mary-merry-marry merger. A bit over half of American speakers pronounce all three of those words identically, as mɛri. About 17% of Americans have a full three-way contrast. In NYC, for example, they'd say meɹi, mæɹi, and mɛɹi. And other people merged two of the three.
  The pen-pin merger is a famous feature of southern American dialects.
  Some words have regional pronunciations - crayon can have one or two syllables, for example.
  And then there's regional words, like pop vs soda, bucket vs pail, firefly vs lightning bug, you vs y'all vs yinz vs youse vs you lot vs you all vs you guys etc.
  By asking about all of those sorts of things, you can figure out where someone's from.
- Dialect tests. Think about how someone from boston might say "park" like "pahk" vs other parts of the country, or if someone uses "y'all" where they might be from. The way people pronounce o,a, ai, ough, augh type of sounds is very telling. Also phrases are very regional. There are many studies that compile that data. One famous dataset is used in a Times article that is behind a paywall, here are some people talking about it: https://peabodyawards.com/nytimesdialectquiz/
  Another random one from buzzfeed: https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewziegler/dialect-quiz
  And babbel: https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/american-accent-quiz
  Or just search for dialect quiz.

Atleast we're bilingual

tabweh! ... it translates to 'this is true' in Ojibway-Cree in my language in northern Ontario.

i pick English canada always

American with "eh" it is.
- Depends where you are, we do have an accent but it’s really hard to find people with it now
- Don't forget about the 'sorry' key.
- It's amariceh
- It's UK spelling. Colour instead of color, etc.
i use cookie and biscuit like they mean different things
cookie: has chocolate or hazelnut
biscuit: has jam, has arbitrary flavors like lemon or has no other flavors
- i use them like this: cookies are chewy, biscuits are crunchy

I chose Russia (despite being born in Germany and not of Russian heritage). It just sounds more badass than a German accent.

My accent is a mix of all these three, plus the effect my friends from India have hd on me

I have read British and American books galore (i.e. thousands), and I've listened to English (BBC, BFBS) and American (AFN, Movies) audio sources. My vocabulary and accent is a wild mix of both, so the British consider me American, and the American think I'm British.

I'd low-key like to learn a Scottish accent. But I doubt it would ever be good.

I have a Brazilian friend who every now and again will say a word with a perfect Irish accent because that’s how she learned it. Catches you off guard every now and then lol
Don't be discouraged, it doesn't come naturally and there is good reason to do so. The Scots are generally awesome people and the world needs more fer's, aye's and nae's in general.
Jus' expose yerself tae sum more Sco'ish and ye'll be jus' fine, lad.

How about Northside Dubliners picking a Dub Southside accent to sound posher, or Southsiders picking a Northside Dub accent to sound more gangsta? It's an actual thing. ^^

Speaking of Irish accents! First time I heard someone with a Cork accent I lost my shit. It sounds exactly like a Scanian (Southern Sweden) person speaking with an Irish accent. It's delightful.
- Whenever I meet people from Cork, I always think they're either reading a poem or singing a song to me. Which can be quite unnerving, to be honest.

I've got 'em all plus the indian scammer one >:D

I like to speak in an old timey movie gangster accent ya see.

Somebody needs to speak the extinct Hollywood transatlantic accent. I've found that some US celebrities still seem to have it
- Lets start an ESL school that only teaches the transatlantic accent and see if we can revive it.
- I love that accent and would watch the news if it were still delivered like that.

Here in finland we also have our very own thing: rally english

i'm no expert in vexillology but even i can tell that that's a c- at best
- They're getting a new one! https://youtu.be/lFwwo0W5Ugg

British - fancy

America - normal

Australia - wildcard

America should be Eevee, because there are so many opportunities for variation.
- British should be eevee if anything. There are double the British accents compared to American ones. Cockney, London, Welsh, Scottish, Northern Ireland are extremely distinct let alone the hundreds of other distinct regional accents.
- Now comes the hard part of defining all the Eeveelutions.
  I feel like there are a few very distinct regional accents, but I'm having trouble coming up with the right distinction from the top of my head.
  There's New England, the south in general, New York, Chicago which immediately trigger my brain to think of a very specific accent. Surely there is more to it though?
  Edit: seems @slackassassin@sh.itjust.works made an excellent list.
- Youse have two accents, American and Southern.
  Britain has a new accent every 20cm.
- America actually has very little geographic variation in accents.
  In the UK, for instance, it can change drastically from village to village.
America - which one of Southern (various), U.P., Massachusetts, Atlantic, valley girl, NYC (various) Minnesota, Philly, Chicago, ... ?
Imo Indian English should be normal as it's spoken by more people.

Definitely not the Australian . my jaw will break and my vocal cords will wear out at an early age.

Why did you train so badly?!

Ooooo, which is which!

I'll never tell
- That's just evil. Anyways, I made popcorn.

I'd mix everything just for kicks :)

I'm not even aware of what my accent sounds like. Probably a weird amalgamation of everything.

I've done so many accents at this point I don't even know what my real accent is anymore, but people always think I'm actually from New York or New Jersey until I start talking.

USdefaultism of this post should be used in The International Bureau of Weights and Measures as the metrics for all other USdefaultisms.

333 million Americans, 67 million Brits, 26 million Australians.
- 1.4 billion Indians. So what?

You mixed up America and UK, who saysays an American accent is ever fancy lol

US is normal
UK is fancy
Aussie is wildcard
- No. Wild card is you learned English in a foreign non English native country and your accent is an absolute mess. You say Autumn but Taxi, color but wa(t)er, and maybe you call you cell phone your "Handy".
- UK is traditional
  US is simplified
  Aus is wildcard
- Pretty sure you've got Aussie and US arse about.
- I'd rather dub the US variant a wildcard, based on it being the result of mixing English and all the other languages of settlers. Also, the US and its variations are very common and shadow the other variants which is somewhat sad.

Steal?