What I'm about to say is pretty fucking deep. Don't think about this while you're driving, cause you might get in an accident or something.
Americans have such a distinctive accent, don't they? I guess we drawl? I dunno, naturally, as an american, I don't hear it. But it didn't even exist 300 or 400 years ago. The accent, with the rest of the USA, developed pretty quickly. So in another 500 years, what are the new regional accents gonna be? What's the moon accent going to be? Because america'll populate the moon, and people will live up there for a few hundred years, and sure they'll watch earth TV, but they'll also make TV up there, and all their newscasters will be moonies too, and they'll develop their own accent. A moon accent. Same goes for any planets we colonize, and any third-world countries we force to consolidate. Everybody's gettin' new accents. sweet.
Think it over. Get back to me.
Posted by Ethan at July 2, 2003 12:21 AMWhat accent? I don't have an accent. Everyone else does. Not me.
Posted by: Kones on July 2, 2003 06:11 AMDon't worry about American accents. Everyone will be speaking Chinese by the time my people have their way with you! 2+ billion and counting... Hmmmm... Asian moon women...
Posted by: Asian on July 2, 2003 08:54 AMSurprisingly, few SF authors writing about long-term space settlements have made this point.
Posted by: Lo-lei on July 2, 2003 01:41 PMSurprisingly, few SF authors writing about long-term space settlements have made this point.
Posted by: on July 2, 2003 01:41 PM
A guy at work told me that the American accent is like a slice of Brittish accent from the past, and it's been Brittish-English that's been evolving all this time.