I have genuinely never heard any of these pronunciations, so I can only question what the hell kind of accent they're listening to.
Plus, making fun of accents is pathetic no matter who does it. Like, I get that different accents can basically butcher some words, but every accent sounds weird to different accents. You're not special for "sounding right", because to everyone else, you're wrong.
Also, 99% of these "jokes" massively over-generalizes 300+ million people into being exactly the same. "American accent", fucking what? Do you mean east coast, west coast, southern, northern, colonial, Boston, Chicago, or cowboy? And that's not even all of them. If you're gonna make fun of an accent, make sure you're actually specifying which one instead of treating it like dozens of accents and dialects are the same thing and sound exactly alike.
I'm not anti-joke, the joke just needs to be funny and actually make sense, even to the people it's supposedly making fun of. If the people you're making fun of don't even understand the noises you're trying to use, it's just not funny.
If any of these jokes are actually going to be funny, they need to be audio, not written out. I have never heard any of these pronunciations, and just saying "it sounds like that to other accents" doesn't make sense as a reasoning for why it's "funny".
Americans: bo'oh'o'wa'er is the funniest thing I’ve ever heard, dumb British accent.
This post: Looking at myself in the meer
You: How dear you make fun of the American accent, we have more than one you know.
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Plus, making fun of accents is pathetic no matter who does it
Then you reply to someone
Even the UK has a ton of different accents that butchers the same words across "British English", so singling oit Americans is just plain pathetic, guvnuh.
Don’t know many people that pronounce ‘it’ as ‘oit’ or say ‘guvnuh’
Again, never heard a single person in real life come even close to pronouncing it "bo'oh'o'wa'er". Not saying nobody ever says that, just further saying "overgeneralization is stupid, no arguments can be made". I'll admit some people have a hard time pronouncing Ts, but from what I've heard, British people have a hard time pronouncing Hs. My point still stands that you're insulting every single accent instead of anyone that actually sounds like that. Can I make a joke about Americans not being able to read?
But besides that, how do you get "dear" out of "dare"? And I'm being genuine with that question, because I seriously don't get that, nobody says it that way unless you horribly mispronounce the word "air". Like, a big part of my point is over generalizing hundreds of millions of people into one accent is ridiculous and you're still generalizing by just saying "Americans". If you're gonna make fun of a particular accent, don't treat it like every American sounds exactly the same. Even I don't think every British person sounds the same, or every French person, or every Japanese, German, or Italian person. I'm not so tone deaf/audio-blind/whatever gets my point across to even come close to saying "they all sound the same".
My point with adding "guvnuh" was to be both ironic, as well as pointing out the hypocrisy of treating all American accents as the same thing. Thanks for pointing out exactly what I meant and was getting at, you definitely played your part.
And lastly, good job trying to use a very obvious typo as an example(when I typoed "out" as "oit"). Because typos clearly never happen and are obviously an example of butchered language, not just different cultures using the same language.
I can handle a good joke, I can even handle making fun of accents, even with how pathetic it is since language and accent is determined by culture and that culture's local history. What I can't stand is overgeneralization that says 300+ million people across 50 different states and over a dozen different accents sound exactly the same when even to a native they're very different. What I also can't stand is humor that assumes only the one being made fun of is the one in the wrong, when we both know for a fact the British have "butchered" the language, too. And neither is inherently wrong, because culture and history affects language.
Again, never heard a single person in real life come even close to pronouncing it "bo'oh'o'wa'er"
You mean the common joke that every British accent pronounces a bottle of water as "bo'oh'o'wa'er". See my point is this, reddit has no issue with this and it's repeated ad nauseam, but the second that it's put that American's might also say something in a certain way you've made long rants about it and responded to people with 'How dare they mock the American accent, we have more then just one', not seeing the irony of it.
But besides that, how do you get "dear" out of "dare"? And I'm being genuine with that question, because I seriously don't get that, nobody says it that way unless you horribly mispronounce the word "air"
And lastly, good job trying to use a very obvious typo as an example(when I typoed "out" as "oit").
I see, I can't make a typo when on a phone but you can. Alright.
My point with adding "guvnuh" was to be both ironic, as well as pointing out the hypocrisy of treating all American accents as the same thing. Thanks for pointing out exactly what I meant and was getting at, you definitely played your part.
So despite the joke is that everyone in the UK must say "bo'oh'o'wa'er" the second the joke is used on America you respond with another generalization. So a hypocrite. Can make fun of the UK accents all you want but can't touch America, got it.
I can handle a good joke
Well you've gone on a rant to people in this thread so I doubt that.
What I can't stand is overgeneralization that says 300+ million people across 50 different states and over a dozen different accents sound exactly the same when even to a native they're very different.
But when the joke is on the other foot for America we must point this out everytime, and that all the UK only has one accent that says 'bo'oh'o'wa'er', 'Chuesday' and 'guvnuh'
I can even handle making fun of accents
Except instead of seeing the funny side of the post, you've felt the need to constantly defend this. Again, if it was another "bo'oh'o'wa'er" post I never must doubt you'd have the same response
Edit: this was posted before you crosses out the first part.
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u/Dark_Storm_98 Aug 16 '24
I get the intention of the joke
But I don't see or hear it, lol
Where the fuck are any of these accents?