Why is American speech so garbled?

[AngryCarl3]

[OneViewpoint]

Because we corrected the flaws we inherited from the English and now the Brits, Aussies, and new Zealanders are stuck in the past with flawed versions that make it difficult for them to understand proper English when they hear it. Their brains have a subconscious block on our new and improved English.

They have a special problem with the letter "R". Letter comes out "Lettuh". Are comes out "Ah". Rabbit comes out "Wabbit". They cling to words like Muggles and still call places names like "Kingston upon Hull" or "Newcastle upon Tyne", "Southend-on-Sea" or "Stoke-on-Trent".

We will continue to assist them fixing their archaic language.

[NathanDavis]

UP THE TOON!

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Kc1LDJQfAbU

[AngryCarl3]

What a lovely Geordie lass!

[NathanDavis]

I'd marry her...

[FreyaRed]

When you drink few bottles of their home made brandy or corn whisky you start to speak that way too. In later generations it turned a habit without alcohol.

[_Jenny_]

@AngryCarl3 Who said that it is?

[AngryCarl3]

Greta Garbled

[_Jenny_]

@AngryCarl3 lol

[RavVid]

Unfortunately the rule bound Americans seem to have decided to vocalize all the written letters.

Whereas the rest of the world knows that Caxton fucked it up to buggary & back in 1476. Plus he hired wog (i. e Euro) typesetters who injected silent letters and removed 6 quite useful English letters as a cost cutting exercise.

So we all know, you should ignore how the word is written except for Americans, who have no excuse because they all went to the US after Caxton and should know better.

They even pronounce every R regardless of a vowel not following.

[jshm2]

Because they don't speak English. Only accented Engrish

[exitseven]

They do not cteach English Grammar in school anymore.

[Kevinvdd]

I think that is only the case in the eye of the beholder.

[Factual_person]

Ear of the beholder

[msc545]

I don't think it's garbled, particularly. We do have some regional accents however that are really hard to understand

[Micheal6918]

Every countries Speech is Unique in it own way

[FrodoSkywalker007]

Stop being so jealous