I agree with everything you say except the bit about Glasgow. That really is a different language.
Axel found something a few years ago that said that the accent that is currently thought of as "Southern" in the USA is the closest thing we have to what the English colonists sounded like when they were first arriving in North America. I find that shit fascinating.
BC showed me an episode of Outlander a couple of weeks ago and for some reason that's the thing that my brain locked onto as unrealistic. Not the time travel. The fact everybody identifies her as English because of the way she spoke and I kept saying "that wouldn't have happened, English accents didn't sound like that back then."
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zvi
(no subject)
Date: 2017-11-06 12:53 pm (UTC)Axel found something a few years ago that said that the accent that is currently thought of as "Southern" in the USA is the closest thing we have to what the English colonists sounded like when they were first arriving in North America. I find that shit fascinating.
BC showed me an episode of Outlander a couple of weeks ago and for some reason that's the thing that my brain locked onto as unrealistic. Not the time travel. The fact everybody identifies her as English because of the way she spoke and I kept saying "that wouldn't have happened, English accents didn't sound like that back then."