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Unlimited screen time creates generation of kids who sound like they went to an international school in Singapore (www.betootaadvocate.com)
submitted 8 months ago by MHLoppy@fedia.io to c/theonion@sh.itjust.works
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The South Betoota Polytechnic Academy of Phonetics And Speech Study has today dropped a bombshell new report.

Built off the back of nearly a decade’s worth of clinical trials and studies, the new research has revealed there is an entire generation of kids who sound like they went to an international school.

“Yes, we’ve found nearly 74% of children between the age of 4-10 all sound like they went to school at international school, or have lived in multiple countries,” said Hugh Speakman, the lead researcher.

“The remaining others either have those weird home school accents or are multi-lingual.”

“Many of them sound like a kid who’s learnt how to speak using some weird Microsoft Sam technology.” [...]

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[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

Funny, I call that the Erasmus accent, myself.
It's what everybody sort of gravitates towards, when you have many speakers with wildly different accents together. Ie, a bunch of Erasmus students, for example.
It's why I always advised them to not stick together so fucking much, if their goal was to actually improve in their rather language.