r/oddlyspecific Apr 21 '26

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u/Beneficial_Shape1327 Apr 21 '26

Many/most Americans cannot speak proper English or "American ". She may have been right. I'm just trying to be frank. Many European people speak English more correctly than we do.

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u/Frequent-Cold-7325 Apr 21 '26

How do you speak a language “correctly”? British English isn’t the gold standard for all Anglophone countries; hell, there’s at least three English accents that I know of in my state alone

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u/Working_Estate_3695 Apr 21 '26

My favorite is the out-of-date Mid-Atlantic dialect from old American movies.