My mom's extended family has an actual long-horn herd around Seguin, so they get a pass on wearing boots and a Stetson. Meanwhile, my upstairs, sociopathic yuppie, mid-West hipster transplant neighbor walks around in cowboy boots on a solid floor for no reason (and no cattle) and has a man-bun despite it going out of fashion about 2016. I wouldn't even pretend to be a "cowboy" on Friday nights without actually roping and herding cattle, otherwise I'd feel like a poser.
:Waves from ATX by way of SJC; parents by way of San Anton; grandparents by way of Nocona, Vernon, and Wichita Falls:
I also have leather soled pre-aged oilskin boots that have been covered in mud at various points in their life (the best 50 bucks I ever spent - you cant go wrong with 50 dollar pair Tony Lama boots, the pre-aged material means they felt wore-in right from the first time I pulled them on) - yet clean up nice enough that I can wear them to a meeting, as well as rubber soled western style boots for work (two otherwise identical pairs, one in steel toe, the other in not steel toe - I loath the narrow toe box of the steel toe ones).
That said, I don't wear boots or anything with a hard heel inside my house, for fear my downstairs neighbors would kill me in my sleep. ;-)
As far as me? I'd love a ranch, with cattle, but in the mean time, I'm perfectly fine being all-hat, no-cattle, besides, a cowboy hat is practical here in Texas (was in Washington too), and frankly so are boots most of the time too, besides, western shirts generally look nice, and wear well too.
I did actually read somewhere that linguists think the British/American accent before America was a separate colony was most likely more similar to an American accent, so actually it was the Brits who diverged their accent.
See also: humans didn’t diverge from chimpanzees, but both from a common ancestor.
I just tell people I travel alot and my friends English from all over the world rubbed off on me.
I would actually say that for a longer time I have consciously avoided regional slang, as American colloquial English is not usually any close to academic English and it is very easy not to notice. But Europeans have no clue what you’re saying if you are simultaneously slurring words, completely altering sentence structure, using idioms, and complete slang.
So maybe it just gravitates towards an enunciated and generic international form of English? Skip a syllable and there it is.
My paternal grandmother was from Cape Cod; lived in Britain, Germany, and the Philippines; and ended-up in San Jose, CA with a New Englander-British (no pun intended) accent. My dad had somewhat of a latent British accent from eating gristle and corporal punishment at an all-boys English boarding school.
Two Norwegian brothers: one was my roommate, had lived in the US for 10 years, and always spoke English like he was drunk and still working on the language; the other had never been to the States before but sounded like he lived in the US for 90% of his life. I'm wondering if it's language speaking/interpretation plasticity skill are more innate to the individual. (I'm probably more like the first brother and sound like a rube in every language.)
Sorry, but what does this mean?
Also I don’t know which “Indian” accent you mean, but I find Welsh English and Hindi have a similar prosody
Indian Institutes of Technology, for those playing at home.