<p>^That, or cockney. Which is extremely annoying.</p>
<p>Of course, a lot of Americans who don’t go for an upper class RP or cockney end up sounding West Australian instead.</p>
<p>Necessary or not it is just wilful ignorance and I can’t see any justification for it, unless you adhere to the view that Americans are fundamentally stupider than everybody else. Far be it from me to expect that an educated user base like that of CC be able to use the crudest and most basic distinguishing markers like north and south when talking about British accents.</p>
<p>It’s quite assumptive, and rather ridiculous, to jump to calling a convention, one used even among linguists, “willful ignorance.” Nearly every large country, culture, region, etc. has a standard accent. To shorten the name of this accent from “General American” to “American” or from “British Received Pronunciation” to “British” hardly indicates that anyone is ignorant, willfully or otherwise, of the variations of the accent or of the fact that the standard accent is indeed tied to a specific region within the larger area.</p>
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<p>For some reason, I actually really like Cockney accents. I admit they can get slightly annoying sometimes, but most of the time I think they sound interesting :)</p>
<p>Britain does not have a standard accent. RP and the so called standard American accent are incomparable, the former being spoken by a minority of people in the southern extremity of the country; and unlike the latter does not dominate television and media. It is wilful ignorance to knowingly bunch literally hundreds of regional accents and dialects in Britain together in one collective and meaningless term.</p>
<p>/me forfeits.</p>
<p>LOL fake accents do not bother me. For me, accents are simply outward self expression. I think they are cute…</p>
<p>My AP Chem teacher is from Iowa. I didn’t think Iowa had a particular accent to them until I met her. She pronounces “notes” as 'NOOOHHHHHTS". It’s so funny everytime she says it. Basically anything with an “O” is emphasized.</p>
<p>^^ Usually I don’t mind either, but some I just can’t stand.</p>