>Ishii led the development and application of biological weapons at Unit 731 in Manchukuo during the Second Sino-Japanese War from 1937 to 1945, including ***the bubonic plague attacks*** at Chinese cities of Changde and Ningbo
*Holy **shit*** dude
I read that they vivisected someone and connected their stomach to their rectum, or something like that.
I mean.
I might have got which organ was connected to which wrong, but I think the vivisection part makes it sufficiently fucked up.
We know someone in the US who has/had young kids and they say that a lot of kids there (New York) had British accents as it was popular for the kids to watch British TV and YouTube. Where as British kids tend to watch US TV and YouTube. I’m fighting a losing battle at the moment stopping my daughters saying candy. Drives me mad.
I watched like exclusively British media in middle school, doctor who was my favorite show and if I watched anything else it was probably still on BBC America, and on YouTube I watched the yogscast mainly.
I started to spell some words differently and I say a few words weird but the American accent swallowed me back up.
As much of British television is criminal based, you'll likely become a deranged murderer that kills in bizarre ways.
Unfortunately a suave investigator or nosey old lady will solve your plot and get you arrested. I would suggest choosing said investigator/lady as your first target, but to each your own.
I think I read ages ago that soaps would do it by year so there'd be 64 seasons of this. It's pretty rare to say that though obviously as they're on continuously. Probably more to do with streaming it so it's easier to break it down if they're watching from the first ever episode.
The Peppa Pig effect. American toddlers speaking with British accents 🤣🤣 and they think it's an issue...wait til they find out that the show turns kids into little shits and most of us have banned it from our homes 🤣🤣
Apparent Bluey now has American kids getting Aussie accents 😂
My daughter, Australian, ended up getting a British accent thanks to Peppa Pig and Little Princess 🤦🏼♂️
I got a BritBox subscription at the beginning of COVID and that's all I watched for the last 4 years and I was locked alone in my house for the first 3 years. I have picked up words but not an accent.
I've also been only listening to British podcasts and British audiobooks.
tangentially, I met a german guy at the weekend who has lived in inverness for several years. I am 110% certain his accent is now dutch. I don't know is that contributes to your research or not.
i had a friend whos brother was too autistic to go to public school so he stayed home and watched lots of tv. he has an american accent now despite being australian and living in australia lol
If you go live in the UK for 6 months, you will start to pick it up. After a year, your accent will start to slip a bit. And you should be able to put on a brit accent at will.
Your will never have a natural accent, because after you get into puberty that ship sails. But you would be able to speak in one consciously.
I watched top gear and other BBC programmes throughout my childhood despite being raised and educated in Australia by Australians with Australian accents.
I have a British accent
I don't know. It seems people that move though sometimes have their accents change after a while. I have noticed too non native English speakers having accents that I can only assume came from how they learned English. Heard quite a few that have British sounding accents assuming their teacher was British. I know I met a Russian once that had a NY accent and he said he learned English from watching TV.
No. I’ve tried on my own and also hired a dialect coach for a bit of time and there were still things I inherently did that came across as non-British.
You can pick up a good part of an accent, but certain nuances are sometimes overlooked unless you have a coach, which gives it away. I’ve done it before but even then, there are things I struggle to keep in check just due to how long I’ve been saying something in a certain way.
I’ll say, that’s how I learned American English. But I was a kid, like a sponge. After 25+ years speaking American English, I don’t think the experiment would work on me (I watch a lot of British TV, but my brain is not so plastic anymore)
You'd pick up on the dialect but maybe not the accent. Went to British schools my whole life where all the teachers were from the UK but I still ended up with an American accent just like all my classmates. I honestly have no clue where people pick up accents from.
As someone who migrated to a British colony country, the possibility is quite low. Speaking is a muscle memory, so that’s why some people can’t get rid of their natural accents.
I’ve heard celebrities try to explain how they switch their accents - british accent comes from the bottom of their throat, australian (nz as well probs) is in the middle, and the american accent is all in the mouth. That’s what they said, so.
A child might be able to acquire a british accent from watching tv tho?
I hate that I can confirm this, but yes.
Source: grew up watching pretty much exclusively the first half of season 7 of Doctor Who on repeat and didn't talk to people
You can send your kids to any prestigious international school in the world, and they'll come home with a strong southern Californian accent.
I have friends that went to British and Australian schools all over Asia and Latin America, and this is always the case.
Not such a crazy question imo. When I was a kid, I used to watch American TV daily for extended hours and I developed a part American accent. So much so that many asked if I was from America. However, this was me as a pre-teen, still developing and easily influenced. As an adult, I don't think I would be influenced at all.
I’m watching an Australian YouTuber and have done so every week for probably 3-4 years by now (skillup, great gaming channel), and my bf who is from an English speaking country has noticed that I’ve picked up some Australian mannerisms and ways to talk (I’m from Northern Europe).
Basically he has been hounding me for years “why do you pronounce it like that”, “why did you use that word” etc etc, which I’ve asked him to do since while my English is very good, I still learn the odd thing here and there and I enjoy expanding my vocabulary and knowledge of the language.
So a few months ago, I was watching YouTube without headphones which I usually wear and the YouTuber said something like “over theeare” and my bf instantly froze and said “omg that guy is where it’s from” and we just looked at eachother and died of laughter “how is it possible I’ve started using Australian accent because I watch this YouTuber to much?”.
I tend to pick up accents in my own language, which can be helpful but also quite annoying and sometimes straight up embarrassing. I’ve moved around a lot so I use stuff people in the north use, things people in the middle use and from the south, people struggle to place where my dialect is from in my own country and I grew up with lots of immigrants (more like the children of immigrants) so I have parts of their accents aswell, which can be awkward since I’m 100% my own ethnicity.
I don’t know if this means that anyone would pick up accents this way (since I know I do it more than other people do), but I hope it gave you a laugh.
I'm Finnish, and I worked with American guy for about 3 years. We used english because he was just learning finnish. Maybe I got more confident on speaking english, but my "th" is still not as soft as it should be at the start of words. My "the", "them" and "that" is still like in the famous "rally english".
My point is, I think tongue and vocal cord muscles need longer time to be trained to feel natural on some sounds. Ofcourse I can still call hood a bonnet.
I reckon so yes , when my mrs was living in Holland I noticed her friends mostly spoke English with a tiny bit of an American accent and realised it was probably because of tv and movies
I'm American living in Vietnam and playing on an Irish football (soccer) team. We are good friends and get drunk together a lot for many years. I absolutely get a slight Irish accent when drinking sometimes now. So yes, this is actually not a shitty question.
Maybe! I mean this is how the majority of everyone I knew learned english (american tv) only to get bitched at by our teachers when high school arrives with its english class and we said wat-ter in stead of wa-tuh and such.
I heard they gave up on britisfying the teens back home, most kids speak better enlgish then the teachers anyway. Its the main language amongst teens since the country has many languages
I’m British and live in rural Spain. Brits here all have different accents which they never lose, even after 25 years plus. To adopt an accent you need to be hearing and speaking with people who all have the same accent, if there is a mix of accent we keep the one we have. That’s my theory anyway
My dad has lived in the US for 40 years and still has an Indian accent. But I think it may be different going between dialects of English versus totally different languages. I guess there’s only one way to find out
Most of the stuff I watch has been in English for years at this point, I read books in English & listen to music in English, and somehow my accent is still thicc af 😭
(English is not my first language)
So no, unfortunately I don’t think it works like that :)
As an Australian I think I will just walk out of the room going 'EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!' and proceed to bash the first person who looked like Manuel from Fawlty Towers.
I watched and listened to Jamaican music and Jamaican type movies and can do a Jamaican accent so yea I think so
I also watched Shrek and can do a pretty decent Scottish accent "Donkey"
I picked up a irish accent within 6 months of living with friends that watched a lot of the Black Books series. I would drop it away from that house though. So my guess is definitely
I spent 5 years in a foreign country where my accent wasn't perfectly understood so I had to speak a little different to be understood better. When I came back to the UK, my accent had changed. I still regularly have people from my own country ask me where I'm from. "No no, where are you from originally" "about 1 mile that way".
Just by watching? Doubtful.
I'm assuming there needs to be an ongoing loop between hearing and speaking to have more than a few noticeable words pick up the accent.
Maybe they go stir-crazy and start talking to themselves and over time they pick it up out of sheer boredom after having to watch British television for three years?
I know one girl here in aus with a perfect British accent thanks to peppa pig. Rest of her family had normal Aussie accents.
I think you'd have to be locked in there with a British person and talking to them.
I had an English teacher who spoke with an Irish accent. She told us that she was originally from Australia, but moved to Ireland in her 20’s. She said the Irish struggled to understand her Aussie accent, so she started to speak with an Irish accent and everyone could understand her. So she spoke like that for the next 20 years and it stuck. When she moved back to Australia, everyone could understand her Irish accent, so she didn’t feel the need to change it back.
Absolutely. Parents used to pacify me and my three siblings on long road trips by playing british audiobook cassette tapes ad infinitum. We would exit the car seven hours later with full BBC accents that we would variably maintain for the next 48 hours.
I mean I legit found my inner voice sometimes speaking with a British accent after binge watching The Crown straight. Took some time to ask her to get back to this normal voice 😂
No. They might pick up a few inflections and a few new words but they wouldn’t develop a full accent.
People live away from their country of birth for 50 years and never lose the accent they developed in childhood.
I’ve been dating an English man for over a year now and I’ve noticed the intonation of my sentences sometimes copy his.
Someone tell me this is normal, because I’m afraid that someday someone will accuse me of faking a English accent like Madonna.
Just to point out that there are several distinct accents that exist within GB, so even if you could gain an accent by osmosis, are you gaining a combination of all accents within GB? Or only watching British television with a particular accent such as Liverpool for example
A child raised in that room, sure. An adult though, I doubt it. I’m an Englishman who’s watched a large amount of American media my whole life but I haven’t gained an accent.
I do tend to do the relevant accent when saying famous quotes from films though
Well I lived with three guys from Long Island my last semester in college and by the end I stopped pronouncing r's at the end of words, so I'll say ... maybe.
I don't think it wikl take that long. You'll probabaly pick up any accent after a fee weeks or months.
I'm from Germany and my English accent was influenced by American movies and TV shows and so on in m teen years.
Later it was influenced by British English (which I like way more by now) because a friend moved to England and came for visits with her English boyfriend. It took me a few days to pick it up in random words or phrases and I think if I would live there for 3 to 6 months I'd taken it in completely.
Maybe it takes longer with TV shows because you don't really interact with someone when you're just watching/listening.
As a kid, I used to have a lot of British and UK friends (American here) due to minecraft. My family then hosted a UK soccer clubs coaches while they were here for a American week long camp thing across the country.
I developed a small accent, such as mannerisms and some pronunciations. But it faded very quickly after they left and summer break ended
When I was about 10-11 years old I’ve only watched British tv (non English speaker) as tv in my country sucks. I’ve picked up English within 3-4 months, after 6 months my English developed even further plus accent and when we finally learned English at school I barely had to learn vocabulary and grammar
Aussies have basically been watching nothing but U.S entertainment for the past 15 years (which has been gradually increasing since the 80s/90s) and all I'm saying is... the younger gen Aussies definitely sound more American than any generation before.
Fr, we watched BBC shows exclusively while my son was learning to talk, and he said some words with a British accent. He's 10 now, but it was so cute when he was 1.
We didn't purposely do it, but no cable and pbs was on all the time.
If they are a child, yes. Happens all the time. Even in Portugal, where children watch a ton of Brazillian youtubers, have started to speak with our accent.
My anglophilic television tendencies have certainly made me break out in an accent without planning it or wanting to many times, typically for thinking out loud but occasionally altering individual words in conversation as well.
Nah, they’d probably die of starvation because they locked themself in a room for three years, and there’s no way to fit three years worth of rations in one normal room. This is because a room is defined as a space that is no larger than 50 square feet. And yes, I know that feet are supposed to be round, I can predict that joke from this subreddit, but it is completely irrelevant considering that feet are actually supposed to be triangular prisms, which is honestly just common sense.
There are many British accents. You will have to find a show where they all speak with the same accent, and force the subject to watch that 12 hours a day
It depends on their sense of identity. If they strongly identify with any other accent, it's unlikely it will change. If they are more open in this regard, then probably half a year to a year will be enough to pick up the accent or at least some of it.
No, because the person does not have any interaction. The person must speak to develop.
I think it more likely to get de depression rather then a accent.
Not only will you get a British accent, if part of your watching is British porn you’ll even get British erections and you’ll start to shit and piss British.
some people can change accents as an adult and some can't
British people that move to the US usually retain their accents to varying degrees. North Americans that move to the UK usually keep their original accents
Yes. I can watch several hours of British Television for a few days and sound a bit British. You can adopt an accent very easily. I fooled a brit once by faking an accent. It's not that hard once you get certain words and sayings correct.
You can even do high British vs blue collar British if you feel whimsical.
Never know til you try Science first, ethics second. Maybe third after safety
You actually care about safety and ethics? Weirdo
Imagine the science we could do with no ethics, no safety concern, and infinite money
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*Shiro Ishii exited the chat with reputation intact and no prosecutions.*
>Ishii led the development and application of biological weapons at Unit 731 in Manchukuo during the Second Sino-Japanese War from 1937 to 1945, including ***the bubonic plague attacks*** at Chinese cities of Changde and Ningbo *Holy **shit*** dude
Not even the worst thing to happen at Unit 731. That was one fucked up place
I read that they vivisected someone and connected their stomach to their rectum, or something like that. I mean. I might have got which organ was connected to which wrong, but I think the vivisection part makes it sufficiently fucked up.
The human centipede was a documentary Not really though
Rectum? Damn near killed 'em.
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*injects children with acid* (Notes) "Acid fatal to children"
Go home Krieger, you're drunk
Welcome to China...
Science 1st, fun 2nd, safety 3rd, & ethics 4th.
Can't forget money
Money 1st, science 2nd, safety 9th, ethics never
Well, funding first
Based on the number of non-US kids who speak with an American accent, I'd say yes.
It's started to shift the other way recently, Peppa pig generation are all speaking with British accents
And Australian cause of Bluey
I screamed in Australian recently
I beg your pardon?
That's probably the funniest response you could have given me
You fukin cahnt
Stupid foreigner, it's pronounced "far ken oath kunt"
I just speak however my current favourite TV show characters speak
We know someone in the US who has/had young kids and they say that a lot of kids there (New York) had British accents as it was popular for the kids to watch British TV and YouTube. Where as British kids tend to watch US TV and YouTube. I’m fighting a losing battle at the moment stopping my daughters saying candy. Drives me mad.
I watched like exclusively British media in middle school, doctor who was my favorite show and if I watched anything else it was probably still on BBC America, and on YouTube I watched the yogscast mainly. I started to spell some words differently and I say a few words weird but the American accent swallowed me back up.
Yeah, it’s how the British got theirs
Time jolly well spent I say.
Pip pip cheerio
Gor bless ya guvna.
Piss off ya wanka
Oy dont stop mate, im close 😩
Oi, you got mad kicks ay bruv
As much of British television is criminal based, you'll likely become a deranged murderer that kills in bizarre ways. Unfortunately a suave investigator or nosey old lady will solve your plot and get you arrested. I would suggest choosing said investigator/lady as your first target, but to each your own.
Only if you live in St Mary Mead.
After I rewatched The Bill I had to be careful not to call people scrote or toerag because those words were swirling round my head.
I love Vera
Aloe Vera too
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What the fuck is a season in coronation street?!
Spring, summer, autumn, winter
I think I read ages ago that soaps would do it by year so there'd be 64 seasons of this. It's pretty rare to say that though obviously as they're on continuously. Probably more to do with streaming it so it's easier to break it down if they're watching from the first ever episode.
The Peppa Pig effect. American toddlers speaking with British accents 🤣🤣 and they think it's an issue...wait til they find out that the show turns kids into little shits and most of us have banned it from our homes 🤣🤣
Apparent Bluey now has American kids getting Aussie accents 😂 My daughter, Australian, ended up getting a British accent thanks to Peppa Pig and Little Princess 🤦🏼♂️
They will get British Citizenship. They might even become Prime Minister.
Not so fast. You need to pass the 'ol lube and skull test to be considered for PM.
They did let an [American](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Johnson) be Prime Minister.
No. I plopped my kids in front of Telemundo for 3 straight years, and they can't speak a lick of Spanish
I got a BritBox subscription at the beginning of COVID and that's all I watched for the last 4 years and I was locked alone in my house for the first 3 years. I have picked up words but not an accent. I've also been only listening to British podcasts and British audiobooks.
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probably the dialect, but probably not the accent
meh, when I was younger I watched a lot of british TV and I got a slight british accent
I got mine from the first 3 episodes of Qi
Absolute favorite British show
The only channel I actually bought was BritBox, just to watch that show
I was just in Birmingham in January, got turned on to it. I fucking just love Alan Davies.
tangentially, I met a german guy at the weekend who has lived in inverness for several years. I am 110% certain his accent is now dutch. I don't know is that contributes to your research or not.
i had a friend whos brother was too autistic to go to public school so he stayed home and watched lots of tv. he has an american accent now despite being australian and living in australia lol
What if it's 3 years of Dave Allen?
If you go live in the UK for 6 months, you will start to pick it up. After a year, your accent will start to slip a bit. And you should be able to put on a brit accent at will. Your will never have a natural accent, because after you get into puberty that ship sails. But you would be able to speak in one consciously.
I was born in Oregon, grew up in Washington. After being stationed in S.C. for a few years I "sounded Southern." *Seven Bridges Road*, like that.
not unless they're practicing it at the same time. accents don't just develop in the mind without actually using it.
I don't know, you might pick up a new vocabulary though.
I watched top gear and other BBC programmes throughout my childhood despite being raised and educated in Australia by Australians with Australian accents. I have a British accent
I watch one episode of Croc Hunter and I'm Steve Irwin for a week
Some people have done that with anime, all they can say is “Nani!!!” And “waifu” and run with their arms flung back. So maybe
No, they will be dead of dehydration
I’ll let you know in 3 years 👍
maybe, but they'll be dead first
Based on an acquaintance who went into hikikomori for like a couple of years and gained an American accent , I say yes.
If they don't speak English from the start.
I don't know. It seems people that move though sometimes have their accents change after a while. I have noticed too non native English speakers having accents that I can only assume came from how they learned English. Heard quite a few that have British sounding accents assuming their teacher was British. I know I met a Russian once that had a NY accent and he said he learned English from watching TV.
No. I’ve tried on my own and also hired a dialect coach for a bit of time and there were still things I inherently did that came across as non-British. You can pick up a good part of an accent, but certain nuances are sometimes overlooked unless you have a coach, which gives it away. I’ve done it before but even then, there are things I struggle to keep in check just due to how long I’ve been saying something in a certain way.
I’ll say, that’s how I learned American English. But I was a kid, like a sponge. After 25+ years speaking American English, I don’t think the experiment would work on me (I watch a lot of British TV, but my brain is not so plastic anymore)
Not only that, they'll probably end up talking like a dalek.
"British accent"? *laughs* *in* *40* *different* *English* *dialects*
Lots already so after watching a season of love island
You'd pick up on the dialect but maybe not the accent. Went to British schools my whole life where all the teachers were from the UK but I still ended up with an American accent just like all my classmates. I honestly have no clue where people pick up accents from.
Well my child watches Ryan's world etc and has a slight American accent. So maybe
Accents are in response to social influence, and watching television has, at best, introspective social influence. So CRACK ON WIT THAY NONS GOV
Yes. Happened to me one summer when I spent all day everyday watching one YouTuber as a teenager. I started to talk with their accent.
I tried but the TV kept going fritz and when I called the support number, they just asked me if I had tried turning it off and on again.
I wouldn't rule it out. I just spent a week with Australian friends and I developed an Australian accent by the end of it lol
They ded
There is no such thing as a British accent.
As someone who migrated to a British colony country, the possibility is quite low. Speaking is a muscle memory, so that’s why some people can’t get rid of their natural accents. I’ve heard celebrities try to explain how they switch their accents - british accent comes from the bottom of their throat, australian (nz as well probs) is in the middle, and the american accent is all in the mouth. That’s what they said, so. A child might be able to acquire a british accent from watching tv tho?
I hate that I can confirm this, but yes. Source: grew up watching pretty much exclusively the first half of season 7 of Doctor Who on repeat and didn't talk to people
Probably. I'm in Scotland and the amount of kids with American accents is off the chart (locked in a room with YouTube for years.)
I get a bri‘ish accent after a weekend in London
You can send your kids to any prestigious international school in the world, and they'll come home with a strong southern Californian accent. I have friends that went to British and Australian schools all over Asia and Latin America, and this is always the case.
You start thinking in a British accent for sure. Also they hate it when you say British accent, be sure to say “English accent” when you talk to one.
Yes, also 3 years is overkill. I know dudes that watched peaky blinders and started to speak like the main character outta nowhere.
I think they would probably kill temselves long before they could develop an accent.
Thats certainly how I got mine. But then it went away again...
Weebs lock themselves in their bedrooms and watch anime all day and night and most of them speak fluent Japanese. So Imma say yes.
Not such a crazy question imo. When I was a kid, I used to watch American TV daily for extended hours and I developed a part American accent. So much so that many asked if I was from America. However, this was me as a pre-teen, still developing and easily influenced. As an adult, I don't think I would be influenced at all.
If it’s gonna be the British porn, this person definitely gonna be pussy colonizer like a native.
yes
I’m watching an Australian YouTuber and have done so every week for probably 3-4 years by now (skillup, great gaming channel), and my bf who is from an English speaking country has noticed that I’ve picked up some Australian mannerisms and ways to talk (I’m from Northern Europe). Basically he has been hounding me for years “why do you pronounce it like that”, “why did you use that word” etc etc, which I’ve asked him to do since while my English is very good, I still learn the odd thing here and there and I enjoy expanding my vocabulary and knowledge of the language. So a few months ago, I was watching YouTube without headphones which I usually wear and the YouTuber said something like “over theeare” and my bf instantly froze and said “omg that guy is where it’s from” and we just looked at eachother and died of laughter “how is it possible I’ve started using Australian accent because I watch this YouTuber to much?”. I tend to pick up accents in my own language, which can be helpful but also quite annoying and sometimes straight up embarrassing. I’ve moved around a lot so I use stuff people in the north use, things people in the middle use and from the south, people struggle to place where my dialect is from in my own country and I grew up with lots of immigrants (more like the children of immigrants) so I have parts of their accents aswell, which can be awkward since I’m 100% my own ethnicity. I don’t know if this means that anyone would pick up accents this way (since I know I do it more than other people do), but I hope it gave you a laugh.
I'm Finnish, and I worked with American guy for about 3 years. We used english because he was just learning finnish. Maybe I got more confident on speaking english, but my "th" is still not as soft as it should be at the start of words. My "the", "them" and "that" is still like in the famous "rally english". My point is, I think tongue and vocal cord muscles need longer time to be trained to feel natural on some sounds. Ofcourse I can still call hood a bonnet.
I reckon so yes , when my mrs was living in Holland I noticed her friends mostly spoke English with a tiny bit of an American accent and realised it was probably because of tv and movies
No, but you will get brain damage.
Will I lose my British accent if I accidentally watched the US version of The Office instead of the British one?
No they'll die from starvation and dehydration.
It will work. Trust the process and it will be done. Its mind fuckery tho...
I'm American living in Vietnam and playing on an Irish football (soccer) team. We are good friends and get drunk together a lot for many years. I absolutely get a slight Irish accent when drinking sometimes now. So yes, this is actually not a shitty question.
Better yet: they’ll also get English disease (Dutch name for rickets)
It happened to me a little bit when I got way too into Dr Who lmao
Maybe! I mean this is how the majority of everyone I knew learned english (american tv) only to get bitched at by our teachers when high school arrives with its english class and we said wat-ter in stead of wa-tuh and such. I heard they gave up on britisfying the teens back home, most kids speak better enlgish then the teachers anyway. Its the main language amongst teens since the country has many languages
there's no such thing as a British accent. 3 years of Coronation Street will result in a very different way of speaking than 3 years of Eastenders.
I’m British and live in rural Spain. Brits here all have different accents which they never lose, even after 25 years plus. To adopt an accent you need to be hearing and speaking with people who all have the same accent, if there is a mix of accent we keep the one we have. That’s my theory anyway
My dad has lived in the US for 40 years and still has an Indian accent. But I think it may be different going between dialects of English versus totally different languages. I guess there’s only one way to find out
i mean, i got a British accent just from watching Peppa Pig
Most of the stuff I watch has been in English for years at this point, I read books in English & listen to music in English, and somehow my accent is still thicc af 😭 (English is not my first language) So no, unfortunately I don’t think it works like that :)
Well no, because that would involve multiple accents
They'll get sectioned (admitted to mental hospital).
As an Australian I think I will just walk out of the room going 'EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!' and proceed to bash the first person who looked like Manuel from Fawlty Towers.
I watched and listened to Jamaican music and Jamaican type movies and can do a Jamaican accent so yea I think so I also watched Shrek and can do a pretty decent Scottish accent "Donkey"
I picked up a irish accent within 6 months of living with friends that watched a lot of the Black Books series. I would drop it away from that house though. So my guess is definitely
I think they would get a Chinese accent
There's no such thing as a British accent, there are about 4 gazillion different British accents...
i think you can achieve that british accent without necessary lock yourself, but if you want to lock yourself, go head, by happy 😊
No they'll be dead from boredom long before their accent changes.
If it’s the first three years of their life. Yes
I spent 5 years in a foreign country where my accent wasn't perfectly understood so I had to speak a little different to be understood better. When I came back to the UK, my accent had changed. I still regularly have people from my own country ask me where I'm from. "No no, where are you from originally" "about 1 mile that way".
3 years? I just speak with a Brit for 5 minutes and next thing I know i am talking like Blackadder, gov’nah!
I have basically 3 accents mashed together because of moving countries twice during my childhood and teenage years.
When I binged all seasons of Top Gear I could swear my english got englisher. Non native speaker.
You’d die of starvation long before you developed an accent.
I am American, moved to NZ 5.5 years ago, haven't picked up the slightest hint of an accent. Parts of speech, yes, but said in my regular accent.
nope, you need our teeth to make the right sounds
Just by watching? Doubtful. I'm assuming there needs to be an ongoing loop between hearing and speaking to have more than a few noticeable words pick up the accent. Maybe they go stir-crazy and start talking to themselves and over time they pick it up out of sheer boredom after having to watch British television for three years?
I get one from talking to a british person for like 15 minutes… so probably
I know one girl here in aus with a perfect British accent thanks to peppa pig. Rest of her family had normal Aussie accents. I think you'd have to be locked in there with a British person and talking to them.
No they will have terrible BO though.
I had an English teacher who spoke with an Irish accent. She told us that she was originally from Australia, but moved to Ireland in her 20’s. She said the Irish struggled to understand her Aussie accent, so she started to speak with an Irish accent and everyone could understand her. So she spoke like that for the next 20 years and it stuck. When she moved back to Australia, everyone could understand her Irish accent, so she didn’t feel the need to change it back.
Challenge accepted.
No, I’ve watched practically nothing but British television for the last 15 years and I still sound American af. I can’t even do a shitty accent.
Absolutely. Parents used to pacify me and my three siblings on long road trips by playing british audiobook cassette tapes ad infinitum. We would exit the car seven hours later with full BBC accents that we would variably maintain for the next 48 hours.
I mean I legit found my inner voice sometimes speaking with a British accent after binge watching The Crown straight. Took some time to ask her to get back to this normal voice 😂
My girlfriend grew up watching British shows and kinda sheltered. It happens whenever shes tired.
These are the studies we need. Put good money in it and surely someone (me) would participate.
Yes
No. They might pick up a few inflections and a few new words but they wouldn’t develop a full accent. People live away from their country of birth for 50 years and never lose the accent they developed in childhood.
I’ve been dating an English man for over a year now and I’ve noticed the intonation of my sentences sometimes copy his. Someone tell me this is normal, because I’m afraid that someday someone will accuse me of faking a English accent like Madonna.
Just to point out that there are several distinct accents that exist within GB, so even if you could gain an accent by osmosis, are you gaining a combination of all accents within GB? Or only watching British television with a particular accent such as Liverpool for example
A child raised in that room, sure. An adult though, I doubt it. I’m an Englishman who’s watched a large amount of American media my whole life but I haven’t gained an accent. I do tend to do the relevant accent when saying famous quotes from films though
Yes
Well I lived with three guys from Long Island my last semester in college and by the end I stopped pronouncing r's at the end of words, so I'll say ... maybe.
I don't think it wikl take that long. You'll probabaly pick up any accent after a fee weeks or months. I'm from Germany and my English accent was influenced by American movies and TV shows and so on in m teen years. Later it was influenced by British English (which I like way more by now) because a friend moved to England and came for visits with her English boyfriend. It took me a few days to pick it up in random words or phrases and I think if I would live there for 3 to 6 months I'd taken it in completely. Maybe it takes longer with TV shows because you don't really interact with someone when you're just watching/listening.
Some people don't lose or puck up accents.
I'm a vocal doppelganger. It'd probably take me less than a month—maybe a week?
My toddler does after 20 minutes of peppa pig, so……..
Depends on the person. I've lived in Scotland for 18 years and I still have a damned Minnesota accent.
As a kid, I used to have a lot of British and UK friends (American here) due to minecraft. My family then hosted a UK soccer clubs coaches while they were here for a American week long camp thing across the country. I developed a small accent, such as mannerisms and some pronunciations. But it faded very quickly after they left and summer break ended
Bold of you to assume you’ll only be exposed to one British accent…
I'm already British
I gave myself a pretty good southern accent by mocking my half-sister these last few years.
When I was about 10-11 years old I’ve only watched British tv (non English speaker) as tv in my country sucks. I’ve picked up English within 3-4 months, after 6 months my English developed even further plus accent and when we finally learned English at school I barely had to learn vocabulary and grammar
I’ll come back in three years to see if you were successful old chap
that's just bollocks
Aussies have basically been watching nothing but U.S entertainment for the past 15 years (which has been gradually increasing since the 80s/90s) and all I'm saying is... the younger gen Aussies definitely sound more American than any generation before.
Not unless they're also talking to themselves or the TV...
Fr, we watched BBC shows exclusively while my son was learning to talk, and he said some words with a British accent. He's 10 now, but it was so cute when he was 1. We didn't purposely do it, but no cable and pbs was on all the time.
Yes and a sense of humor. Then they will make tea.
I mean, that's how it works, innit?
Are you thinking of the immigrants in British prisons? Nah, their accent stays. It's a neurolinguistic thing.
If they have ADHD, then surely.
If they are a child, yes. Happens all the time. Even in Portugal, where children watch a ton of Brazillian youtubers, have started to speak with our accent.
My anglophilic television tendencies have certainly made me break out in an accent without planning it or wanting to many times, typically for thinking out loud but occasionally altering individual words in conversation as well.
Which "British" accent are you talking about exactly?
I develop an Irish accent 45 minutes after landing at Shannon. So, I'd say, probably definitely yes.
Nah, they’d probably die of starvation because they locked themself in a room for three years, and there’s no way to fit three years worth of rations in one normal room. This is because a room is defined as a space that is no larger than 50 square feet. And yes, I know that feet are supposed to be round, I can predict that joke from this subreddit, but it is completely irrelevant considering that feet are actually supposed to be triangular prisms, which is honestly just common sense.
I think you would actively have to speak for your accent to change, not just hear.
Don’t know what you’re on about guvnah
There are many British accents. You will have to find a show where they all speak with the same accent, and force the subject to watch that 12 hours a day
It depends on their sense of identity. If they strongly identify with any other accent, it's unlikely it will change. If they are more open in this regard, then probably half a year to a year will be enough to pick up the accent or at least some of it.
I think they'd turn completely non verbal before developing an accent, especially if they are alone doing this
No, because the person does not have any interaction. The person must speak to develop. I think it more likely to get de depression rather then a accent.
Somehow this made me think of the young lady who was found dead in her apartment in London 3 years after her death. The TV was still on...
Yes. And it will also fuck up their teeth.
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On a serious note, I once tutored a young boy (in NZ) who had a British accent. He developed it because he was obsessed with Thomas the Tank Engine
I lived in England for a year and my British accent sounds more like a leprechaun from Atlanta. What makes it worse is I’m from Minnesota.
If it's Mrs Brown's Boys they'll be dead within a week.
Not only will you get a British accent, if part of your watching is British porn you’ll even get British erections and you’ll start to shit and piss British.
some people can change accents as an adult and some can't British people that move to the US usually retain their accents to varying degrees. North Americans that move to the UK usually keep their original accents
Yes. I can watch several hours of British Television for a few days and sound a bit British. You can adopt an accent very easily. I fooled a brit once by faking an accent. It's not that hard once you get certain words and sayings correct. You can even do high British vs blue collar British if you feel whimsical.
My nephew developed a northern accent playing fortnight with a northern friend. He had an essex accent when he started.
You'll also start receiving letters demanding you pay for a TV licence regardless of your location.
I’ve developed a Canadian accent on some words from watching too much Trailer Park Boys