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With this site we can choose to sound like Irish douchebags instead if we want to. That's what I'd pick if I were the Brazilian OP and why? Just cause. Why not.

It would be a funny idiosyncrasy for the Brazilian guy to sound Irish to the American co-workers for example.

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Fun fact - Lenin, yes that Lenin, spoke English with a distinctly Irish accent, as he learned it in Dublin.

I agree wholeheartedly with the above sentiments that the idea of "a correct pronunciation" is a toxic colonialist hangover. It's bad enough that we're losing diversity of languages around the world, let's not stamp down on diversity within the de facto world language that is replacing so many of them. Unique spins on world Englishes are the remaining traces of what was lost.

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