• usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    i thought the accent sounded stupid and clearly made up lmao

    large parts of the posh southern english accent were just made up because someone thought they sounded cool. for example tomahto was literally just some dumbass doing a silly voice and it caught on.

    the English from the north are worth feeling sorry for in this respect because they speak english the way it was always spoken and get made fun of by people who started randomly changing the way they speak for the stupidest reasons imaginable.

    At one point macarone was slang for fashionable in London because someone was in Italy heard the word and thought it sounded cool without knowing what it meant

    • crime [she/her, any]
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      2 years ago

      At one point macarone was slang for fashionable in London because someone was in Italy heard the word and thought it sounded cool without knowing what it meant

      The song Yankee Doodle explicitly dunks on this sort of person

      • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        it's more complicated than that the song Yankee Doodle dunks on Americans for calling things macarone that the singer deems uncool.

        both the song and the people it's making fun of use macarone to mean fashionable