@izzythepush,
izzythepush wrote:
I’ve already answered that question. You wouldn’t know a Geordie accent if it bit you on the arse.
There’s nothing wrong with generalisation but British accent is a generalisation too far.
Have you ever even been to the UK?
If you can generalize about different local accents as all being English accents, then why is generalizing about a British accent 'too far,' except maybe because people don't want to consider themselves part of the same category with all other British people?
If someone would say there is a North American accent, some people would scoff and say that North America includes Spanish and French speakers as well as English, but on the other hand you could probably identify a common way of speaking that is different from Europeans ways of speaking, which are probably generally more focused on discipline and accuracy of pronunciation, while North Americans probably talk in a generally looser and more relaxed way. This might be too stereotypical, but I'm just guessing.
The point is that classifying accents is subjective, just like racism more generally. You can look at people and say they look similar to each other but different from another group, etc. but it really depends on which groups you're lumping together as similar and which other groups your lumping together as different.
