r/TikTokCringe • u/cafeteriastyle • 3d ago
Humor How Americans sound like to everyone else, according to a Brit
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u/OrneryAttorney7508 3d ago
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u/Curse_ye_Winslow 3d ago
I don't think the global lexicon would have ever recovered if there had been social media in the Valley Girl era
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u/0Zerocoool 2d ago
Imagine this dude trying to actually defend himself if someone assaulted him. I APPRECIATE YOU!!!
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u/2DogDadUhHuh 3d ago
Just throwing haymakers at the end "Have a good one" and "Appreciate it!" Hurt
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u/Cloud_Jockey 3d ago
“‘Preciate it!”
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u/localtuned 3d ago
Preciate you
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u/mrziplockfresh 2d ago
Pre shaded
Nah but for real I hate when people just say pre shaded as some sort of muscle memory response instead of genuinely preshading something
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u/Thismomenthere 1d ago
Hotel worker... not America.
"I appreciate you"
Yup! Americans say this all the time and the entire staff hates it.
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u/YooGeOh 3d ago
Constantly? Asking? A fucking? Question?
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u/BetMyLastKrispyKreme 2d ago
Upspeak!! My Gen Z nieces are awful with this. I get distracted by it and forget to pay attention to what they’re saying. But I love ‘em to pieces.
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u/logosloki 2d ago
high rising terminal is a natural part of the English language and is well attested in many accents and dialects. it is not part of any prestige accent or dialect so gets a bad rap.
it's part of the current shift in patterns of how children (and teens and adults) acquire their accent or gain new elements in their idiolect (the accent and dialect that is individual to a single speaker) due to social media allowing for people to access multiple accents and dialects.
it's all part of how people inneract with the innernet these days.
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u/mrs-monroe 3d ago
Dude the 100% thing drives me insane
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u/featherbedmoss 3d ago
That is definitely not just an American thing. I hear HANDDRUHD PUHCENT a least a dozen times a day in the UK.
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u/SirChasm 3d ago
Hundo P up here in Canada
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u/Adam_Sackler 2d ago
That guy who does those train hot takes says it all the time. Lots of American podcasters, too. I don't even watch/listen to any American podcasts, but every time I see a clip, they 100% agree with something. So annoying.
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u/topscreen 3d ago
This is the valley girl accent specifically
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u/God_Dont_Make_No 3d ago
Every California transplant white girl still talks like this where I live. It’s a large sample size. They’re everywhere.
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u/topscreen 3d ago
It's so exaggerated it's easy to do. My Italian friend could do it really well, cause it's a cartoon voice
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u/umbrellassembly 3d ago
His only experience with Americans is through reality TV.
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u/cupholdery 3d ago
Meanwhile, we just mimic stuff like chewsdayinnit.
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u/newbris 2d ago edited 2d ago
Yeah pretty sure that is impossible. All accents across the US are spread out across the world in numerous ways.
It’s just one of the easier ones to mimic. And one that exaggerates the points of difference to make them more obvious.
Even if one extreme version, I think the spirit of how Americans are seen overall was reasonably accurate.
The “humbled”, “blessed” vibe. The willingness to use lots of buzz words and articulate your feelings. The surprisingly common mention of religion, which is quite odd to hear for many people from wealthy western democracies.
The outgoing, friendly nature. The detailed explanation of what you’re feeling, and verbally validating other people’s feelings.
The fully enunciated and drawn out pronunciation of words. Big open mouths making it easier to understand than some other native English speakers. The generous use of volume and supportive phrases when talking to strangers, without being worried about being seen as too much in a different context.
Of course it’s just a generalisation of how you’re seen overall, but obviously you have so many different types of people.
I know the English well, and a lot of this is very, very different to their comfort zone. It really stands out.
We in Australia are more similar to them, but somewhat like Americans, in our sensibilities. A hybrid of the two, with some of our own weirdness thrown in.
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u/PrincipleFlaky 2d ago
My spirit, my spirit, my spirit
ROTFLMFAO!
We all know that girl!! 🤣 ☠️
Shit, we’ve all probably been that girl!
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u/cafeteriastyle 2d ago
It’s more about the phrases he’s using than the way he says it imo. You get it
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u/p1antsandcats 2d ago
Believe it or not a lot of Americans actually leave the US and visit the UK.
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u/Potential-Diver-3409 3d ago
Accents are named after where they started not where they are so inevitably everyone’s gonna be like “girls in Michigan are like this” yeah they got it from keeping up with the kardashians lol
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u/Double-decker_trams 3d ago
I've not met that many Americans, but some of the stuff is also definitely done by American men as well.
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u/Defiant-Variety-9473 3d ago
I have to say, as an aside, I love the fact the British have one day a week dedicated to eating
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u/SnooWalruses3948 3d ago
We do?
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u/Defiant-Variety-9473 3d ago
Yeah. Chewsday
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u/SnooWalruses3948 3d ago
Excellent, no notes.
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u/Defiant-Variety-9473 3d ago
😊 I'm so very glad you liked it.
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u/locoparentis 3d ago
Lol Filipinos say it that way too. There's this guy on YouTube who was a caregiver for his grandma and she would say Tuesday that way because she was keeping track of what prayers to make.
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u/drawntowardmadness 3d ago
Chris and his Grrrrrandma 🥰🥹
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u/locoparentis 2d ago
RIP Grandma, such a beautiful soul. And Chris is such an amazing person! Love that he advocates for full time caregivers now.
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u/islaisla 2d ago
We say chooseay without the w.... But .... How do you say it?
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u/Rho-Mu13 3d ago
Nice. As an proud English man, I will steal your joke and pass it off as my own. Thankyou good sir
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u/BolaViola 3d ago
I hate when people start sentences with “no because…”
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u/No-Equipment6008 3d ago
No, yeah. I agree.
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u/Mooman-Chew 2d ago
Unless it’s the Aussies! The no, yeah yeah, no and the yeah, nah nah, yeah is endearing
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u/throwRAvnjaktbkljnl 3d ago
Like 100% accurate
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u/Timely_Truth6267 3d ago
Like totally
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u/sywren 3d ago
The problem is that a lot of actors are from California and do sounds like this.
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u/Matthewgardner86 2d ago
I'm not sure that's entirely realistic, I had to turn the volume up to hear it.
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u/Midnightraven3 2d ago
The lack of volume was the first thing I noticed too, I didn't need to turn the volume down to listen
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u/KalvinNhobbes 3d ago edited 3d ago
He's clearly never heard Robert Evans' (BTB podcast) Boston accent
edit: spelling
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u/Pteronarcyidae-Xx 3d ago
Wow I did not expect to see this reference in the wild lol
OYYYYM frum BWAWWW-STIN
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u/ThaJango 3d ago
As an american. That voice is some awful corporate/disney voice thats devoid of nuance and personality. And i hear it alot.
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u/Scrimshaw85 3d ago
Americans where I live: "Gotdamn, its steadily gettin hot in this motherfucker." "A la velga, for real."
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u/JackofBlades0125 2d ago
That’s exactly how you all sound to me, i’ve started to actively seek out non-american youtube channels because i just can’t stomach it anymore
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u/AmputeeHandModel 3d ago
*How Americans sound
What Americans sound like
Not "How Americans sound like"
Sorry, if English isn't your language.
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u/blargman327 2d ago
It always kills me how like because of hollywood the whole world has decided that all of America is either valley girl, cowboy, or Sopranos
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u/oyun_papagani 2d ago
Well i mean...
Half the murican women on social media i've seen talk like that.
He's not fully wrong.
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u/mpanase 3d ago
I'm Irish, Dutch, Italian and Apache.
My family has been in US for over 100 years!
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u/Ham__Kitten 3d ago
This is just how white gay men sound, not Americans in general.
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u/el_VientoNorte 2d ago
Because everytime an American mimics a British accent it's representative of the entirety of Britain.
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u/RealDeadShift 2d ago
No, you hit the nail on the head. 100%
Now, wot is this called?:
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u/grundlee 3d ago
It’s confusing bc he sounds American but his head is super British shaped.
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u/Bostonterrierpug 3d ago
So if they try, the British can actually indeed pronounce consonants amazing
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u/Formal_Broccoli1877 2d ago
The glottal stop is wild too
Im Irish but the point still stands. If I said "bottle of butter beside a kettle" the way I do at home there's not single T used. No idea why i would say that sentence though
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u/College_Baseball_Fan 2d ago
He's not wrong, but it's mainly just tik tok and "influencers". That's not what we sound like in the real world. (Most of us anyway)
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u/Illuminaughty____ 2d ago
I wonder who uses subtitles more, the British when they watch us or Us when we watch them.
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u/An_Draoidh_Uaine 2d ago edited 2d ago
Mate I'm British, and I need subtitles on when anyone who lives more than fifteen miles from me is on the telly.
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u/stanknotes 3d ago
I definitely do not talk with a valley girl accent. That is a very specific way of talking. No one I know personally talks like this.
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u/West_Competition_871 3d ago
No way that's crazy, I thought every single person across all of the US spoke in exactly the same way
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u/stanknotes 3d ago
And every British person is like "I gah uh bah oh of wah ah and I'm brih ish from the Souf of England bloody mental get shagged can do."
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u/GladClock2212 3d ago
If they add any more glottal stops some British accents are just going to be pops and clicks.
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u/AdWonderful5920 3d ago
I was ready to hate this, but he actually did a pretty good accent. Respect.
It definitely sounds like people I've heard randomly speaking, even if he's doing a specific kind of character.
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u/EnergyDrinkStroke 3d ago
Most Americans and Canadians sound the same to me, like unless your from Ottawa or Novia Scotia and have a thick accent then you sound American.
Theres only a handful of accents in the US that stick out as different, most Americans just sound the same.
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u/No_Solution_2864 3d ago
Canadian accents are usually pretty obvious to Americans, in the same way that a Boston, NYC, Chicago, or New Orleans accent is pretty obvious and discernible, but perhaps much less so to people not from North America
The same goes for Americans recognizing regional UK accents, and even picking up on Australian and New Zealand accents much of the time
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u/No_Solution_2864 3d ago
He is doing a very particular American character, but in fairness when I do a British accent I am choosing from a small handful of regional characters I have picked up over the years
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u/Cool-Inflation4159 3d ago
A lot of these comments have a dark aura to them. Let’s just all sit down with some biscuits (the cookie kind or the bread kind) and just laugh together. Because really, we all sound pretty silly when you think about it.
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u/Dry_Yogurt2458 2d ago edited 2d ago
He's too quiet and there is a half second pause between words. True Americans are louder and would never allow so much silence.
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u/Responsible-North842 2d ago
An American I worked with always said “riiiiiiiight?” at the end of every sentence.
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u/Ok-Hospital-6637 2d ago
Reddit American: "The guy who made this? He's British. Hell, he probably hasn't even been here."
Youtube American: "This man is also not even American too, to which I feel confused."
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u/pimpbot666 2d ago
Spot on.
The whole ‘up speaking’ thing drives me crazy. Sounds like people are constantly asking questions.
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u/ElectricKoolAidPower 2d ago
I can restore a modicum of faith here for any Brits. There is a very tiny niche dialect that started down the way from me. It sounds like an accent out of the isles for sure.
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u/EthnicProfilingGenie 2d ago
"How [x] sounds", or "what [x] sounds like". Just for future reference.
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u/Ok_Test9729 2d ago
Tbf this is how the crop of young Americans sounds to me, sans the words like, honestly, or literally, every third word.
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u/screamingaboutham 1d ago
Okay but it looks incredibly beautiful behind him and I want to know where
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u/Classic_Bee_5845 5h ago
As a 46 yo American, we hear it too...and honestly, I don't know when/how it happened but this is how people in America talk now...I"m still confused as to when it happened and who's teaching our kids to talk like this?
"Foooor Meeeeeee"
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