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Do you think people will lose their accents?
Topic Started: Feb 5 2010, 07:50 AM (599 Views)
Light Yagami
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So (random) I was playing Mass Effect 2 and the character Miranda is voiced and modeled after Yvonne Strahovski superhot and for some reason I thought that having an Australian accent in 2170 sounded kinda off. Am I being silly by thinking that by the year 2170, assuming the human race still exists, that humans would have eventually lost unique dialects and such? I just assume that by that time everyone would speak English and lose their accents.

I'm sure some of you know a bit about human speech or took classes on something related to culture and junk
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Soja
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Quite simply...

No.

Especially if a long line of family remains unbroken, accents can thrive because the child usually learns language first from the parents and, if applicable, older siblings. Consider this even more ironclad if raised in a population of people from the same place, or with a similar background.

Despite having been raised in the South my whole life and having been surrounded by people who speak with that Southern twang, barring a few lapses into it, my English is much closer to, say, a Californian accent, being that that is where my mother learned English and that is from whom I learned it from myself.

(Also, Miranda is easily explainable; she's from Earth, so.)

Accents are an idiosyncrasy of spoken word. It happens one way or another, and if the accents we are familiar with cease to exist in a two hundred years, I'm sure new ones will have developed in their place. There will always be small differences between populations even as close as in the same State.
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Light Yagami
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Hm. My first language was Spanish and almost my whole family has a slight accent but you'd never guess that I knew Spanish at all by listening to how I speak. My dad sounds funny when he speaks his oh so broken English but I guess I'm glad I picked up English from my mom (if what your saying applies to how most people)

I can totally see it happening in some families and I get the idea that somewhere down the line Americans marrying people from other countries would me much much more common.

Edited by Light Yagami, Feb 5 2010, 08:45 AM.
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I dunno, in Mass Effect 2 what kind of state is the earth in? Because if it still has all separate countries and everything I don't see why the accents would disappear. I sure hope that they don't disappear I would hate to lose my accent.
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Feb 5 2010, 03:36 PM
I dunno, in Mass Effect 2 what kind of state is the earth in? Because if it still has all separate countries and everything I don't see why the accents would disappear. I sure hope that they don't disappear I would hate to lose my accent.
The Codex entry clearly states that Earth is in a booming golden age of development where land is being used better due to arcological advancements and better technology. It further states that the planet's population is still separated into various nation-states (countries) even though they are all united under the Systems Alliance banner (basically, the U.N.).

Three specific nations were mentioned in the description for the planet Watson in, uh, I forgot the name of the cluster. But anyhow, it mentions the European Union (obv., imo), the United North American States (USA, Canada, Mexico prob.), and the Chinese Federation.

My guess is not much different. This IS only 170 years in the future.
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When I moved here from Russia, my parents only spoke English in the household, so I started to pick it up. I was taught english by a tutor, so I sorta picked up an americanized version from him, and not my parents, who still speak in a heavy accent.

Unless something happened to Australia, forcing it's people to move out and learn English somewhere else (like England), or China took over and made them learn chinese, it's not likely they'd just up and change their natural accents.
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Californians don't have an accent as far as I know. :thizz:
No accent is the accent. :NomNomNom: And all those crazy Brits would insist that we all have American accents, even though we don't know what the bloody hell they're on about.

They also don't come here anymore. :kermit:
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They were supposed to in ME2, though. The only reason Miranda has an accent is because of her genetic engineering.

Going back to realism, that would only happen if everyone lived in the same area. Accents evolve within communities.
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Feb 5 2010, 10:15 PM
They were supposed to in ME2, though. The only reason Miranda has an accent is because of her genetic engineering.
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Did I miss something? Because accents are a learned behavior, a habit, not a hereditary trait.
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Like Soja said. I grew up to Russian parents, and lived there till I was 6. But when I came to America, I got an English tutor, spoke english solely in the house, and now have no accent.

Apparently I sound like a valley girl :blink:
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They were supposed to in ME2, though. The only reason Miranda has an accent is because of her genetic engineering.
lolwat

Did I miss something? Because accents are a learned behavior, a habit, not a hereditary trait.
Well, that's what I assumed.

ME2 humans aren't supposed to have vastly different accents.
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What is this Boston accent everybody is talking about? I talk wicked normal.
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Light Yagami
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I love Boston accents. So smexy. Some accents make certain people seem so much more attractive... At least to me anyway.

For some reason I assumed Miranda was created in a massive city in space rather than earth.
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Feb 7 2010, 12:57 PM
What is this Boston accent everybody is talking about? I talk wicked normal.
It probably sounds normal to you lol but when I went to MA I noticed it right away in a bunch of peoples' voices. You would probably say I have an accent, too, since I'm from NY but I don't notice it.
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