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[Alpo]

You have a child of mixed parentage. One speaks English with this accent, while the other speaks with that accent. And they live where people speak with a third accent.

 

What will the kids sound like?

 

Crocodile Dundee 3. In one, they are mostly in New York, where Sue comes from. In two they are mostly in Australia where Mick comes from. But in three they live in Los Angeles, and they have a kid.

 

Will he speak like a high class New Yorker or will he speak like an Aussie or will he speak like whatever the hell they speak like in LA?

 

I THINK - it's been a long damn time since I saw the movie - the kid has an Australian accent. Which when you think about it is pretty strange.

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

Based on statistics of immigrant, (legal), families, the parents tend to speak their native language unless they are adamant about assimilation. Many European families that came to this country after WWII were like this. They WANTED to be Americans. 

But, in most families, the parents speak their native tongue. Their children tend toward being bilingual. The grandchildren tend to speak the predominant language of the country they're in. 

[Cowtown Scout, SASS #53540 L]

I did not know there was a CD 3. 

 

When I was in elementry school we lived for several months in California and then New York State while my dad was training on new computer systems with IBM.  In both cases people there said I had a Texas accent (which is were we lived permanently).  But when we moved back to Texas each time folks there said I had picked up the accent from California/New York.  Eventually those went away and I talking like a Texan again. 

Edited March 9 by Cowtown Scout, SASS #53540 L

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

38 minutes ago, Cowtown Scout, SASS #53540 L said:

When I was in elementry school we lived for several months in California and then New York State while my dad was training on new computer systems with IBM.  In both cases people there said I had a Texas accent (which is were we lived permanently).  But when we moved back to Texas each time folks there said I had picked up the accent from California/New York.  Eventually those went away and I talking like a Texan again. 

I spent a total of 8 years in North Carolina, and 2 years in Georgia during my Misspent Youth as a Marine. Any time I went back to Ohio they said I talked like a Southerner. Even today, I still have just a bit of a Southern accent. And I tend to talk like a Redneck anyway, since at heart a AM a Redneck.

[Subdeacon Joe]

We get this at church. 

When we first came to our parish there were many Old Russians, people who were brought out of Russia when their parents fled the Revolution and it's aftermath, some through Western Europe, some through China.  They grew up with Russian as their native language and spoke English with a heavy Russian accent. Their children spoke Russian with perfect Russian accents and English either unaccented, or with almost no accent and could have just been Regional American accent. 

 

The, for want of a better term,  New Wave Russians....and Hungarians...who came in the late 1990s and early 2000s, parents heavily accented English,  children barely accented American English. 

 

Same for the Romanians. 

 

Eritreans,  who are much morerecent - parents speak barely understandable English, children use unaccented, colloquial American English. 

 

Arabs, mostly from Ramallah and the West Bank spoke English with a "Middle Eastern" accent, which was Arabic with a hint of British. 

 

One of my dad's friends came back from WWII with an Australian bride. Their kids spoke standard Southern California American English. 

[Texas Jack Black]

Spring arrives in 11 days. ALPOS go into hibernation about that time.

ONE CAN ONLY HOPE😉

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

23 minutes ago, Texas Jack Black said:

ALPOS go into hibernation about that time.

ONE CAN ONLY HOPE😉

Never happen. I'm not even sure that he sleeps NOW. Which WOULD explain a lot.

Edited March 9 by Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770

[Trailrider #896]

Since both Mick and Sue speak a form of English, and the kid lives in LA, he would speak "LA".  When my late uncle and an older cousin of my grandfather owned a lumber yard in San Francisco (about 70 years ago), Russians would come in who spoke exclusively Russian. They would say, "Boss, boss!", and my uncle would holler for Cousin Pete, who came originally from Russia or Ukraine as a young man. He spoke both those languages plus a couple of other from Eastern Europe,  but spoke unaccented English. Those Russians had been in this country since before WWII, but never learned English.  Just depends on how isolated their upbringing in this country had been. 

 

I was born and raised in Chicago, but as I travelled around, tended to pick up local accents a little bit. Not sure what I sound like now that I've lived in Montana and Colorado.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

I have a lady friend who was a business partner for eleven years.  She was born in Prussia, moved to Sweden, then Canada, and finally theU. S.  She spoke with a soft German accent.

 

I have noticed that she is now reverting to a heavy German accent and frequently speaks German alone.

 

She is 96 years old and I'm seeing traces of dementia setting  in.

[watab kid]

i think the kids will assume the accents of their friends eventually , when i moved south they told me i talked like a yankee , when i moved back morth they told me i talked like i was from the south , when i visite home they told me i talked like i was from here - i think we adapt a little but ill never speak english like the brits do or like our east coast or our west coast