The great convergence

[d_Guy]

After having spent a year locked up by the pandemic US parents are beginning to notice that their young children are speaking with British accents. This apparently stems from incessantly watching the highly popular "Peppa Pig".

[Ithoriel]

Recovering the rebel colonies one accent at a time

[Raider4]

And before that it was Thomas the Tank Engine or Bob the Builder.

And I also remember the reverse story, about the British being worried their children would talk in American accents when Sesame Street first arrived on our shores.

[d_Guy]

Me like cookies

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Me like cookies

They are bad for you. The US accents arn't the problem, it's the da*md stupid Webster spelling.

[d_Guy]

Colour me Elmo

[Steve J]

In Europe it's been suggested that those 'youngsters' that can speak English well tend to do so with an American accent, due to listening to music and films from across the pond.

[steve_holmes_11]

In Europe it's been suggested that those 'youngsters' that can speak English well tend to do so with an American accent, due to listening to music and films from across the pond.

This true.

My Dutch Co-workers had mainly perfected their English by watching series of the A-team.

[Westmarcher]

In Europe it's been suggested that those 'youngsters' that can speak English well tend to do so with an American accent, due to listening to music and films from across the pond.

I lived with a Danish family for a short time. Their teenage daughter spoke English in I suppose what was a kind of Danish/trans-Atlantic accent but her friend spoke English in a solely American one.  That was some 50 years or so, ago. 

[Raider4]

So, everything old is new again, basically?

[Leman]

Ah, the Atlantic pond. That must make La Manche a mere rivulet, yet so very, very hard to cross that one.

In the 90s British kids started to end their sentences on a higher pitch than the start, apparentley owing to Neighbours and Home and Away. They all sounded like they were constantly asking questions. However a langwidge is a evolushonarie thing so a parentlee spelin an grandma dont matta.

[Ithoriel]

However a langwidge is a evolushonarie thing so a parentlee spelin an grandma dont matta.

Indeed, all that matters is that your target audience clearly understand you.

You grok me, beratna?

[Techno II]

In the 90s British kids started to end their sentences on a higher pitch than the start, apparentley owing to Neighbours and Home and Away. They all sounded like they were constantly asking questions.

One of my favourite comedians (Andy Hamilton)  pointed the same thing out, Andy......The rising inflection, at the end of a sentence, that makes any statement sound like a question.
He blamed that the on the TV show,'Friends'......"Like Sooooo"......

Friends was described as 6 (?) people in search of a good slap !...and made people sound like under confident Australians. 

Cheers - Phil 

[FierceKitty]

Not every mutation is evolutionary. In fact, few are.

[Raider4]

Friends was described as 6 (?) people in search of a good slap !...and made people sound like under confident Australians. 

Old Harry's Game, I believe?

Love the episode where they end up singing Abide With Me.

Top quality radio comedy.