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On Sat, 1 Nov 2025 14:44:15 +0100 "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote: > > Perhaps because there is no such thing as “accentless” speech. > > > > There was a lovely “Two Ronnies” sketch, back in the day, that > > skewered this issue rather well. They did a lot of > > playing-on-language skits, but this one really put paid to the fond > > delusion that RP was somehow easier to understand than any other > > accent ... > > If the goal is to have English as an universal language, teaching a > common accent makes a lot of sense. The problem with these things is that the proposed "common" solution is always either *somebody's* preference (and everyone else can go jump in the lake) or *nobody's* preference (and you're stuck with something stilted and artificial serves nobody well.) And historically, the more insistent the Authorities are on "standards," the worse non-standard folks get treated - some of the abuses perpetrated against speakers of "unofficial" languages and accents (read: how people were speaking before the government decided they should be speaking differently) are downright appalling and/or straight-up crimes against humanity. International English has, thankfully, been mostly free of that, and a pretty laissez-faire affair - which, yes, makes it a mess sometimes... but is *vastly* preferable to the things that happen when linguistic autocrats get involved.
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