12 minutes ago, maechanman said:

Born and raised in Manchester so my accent is distinctly Manc despite being over here for many years.

It's my belief that, with each successive generation, not only will accent differences be lost, but so will cultural differences between the smaller population groups that make life interesting. 

 

And why travel from one place to the next if all places are the same? 

 

Ironically, it is this very travel that is turning our world into one giant Glob of tasteless pablum. 

 

 

3 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

It's my belief that, with each successive generation, not only will accent differences be lost, but so will cultural differences between the smaller population groups that make life interesting. 

 

And why travel from one place to the next if all places are the same? 

 

Ironically, it is this very travel that is turning our world into one giant Glob of tasteless pablum. 

 

 

My friend (from one of those places up North......erm......yeah, that's it.......Darlington!) met a Thai person who learned their English, informally, in Newcastle.......thus they speak it sounding very much the Tynesider.

 

Would you presume that they speak Thai sounding like one?

 

After all your years in the Orient do you speak English with an homogenised "Oriental" accent?

 

People will speak their own language in their own accent, "regional" or not.

 

There can only be a ubiquity of accent if there is ubiquity of language.

 

Which one is it going to be?

 

 

37 minutes ago, Enoon said:

After all your years in the Orient do you speak English with an homogenised "Oriental" accent?

One thing that I definitely do NOT do... 

 

Is to add 'an' .. 

Before the word homogenous ... 

 

But... 

It ups to you, I suppose... 

 

 

9 hours ago, simon43 said:

I speak RP English.

Public boarding-school, too, I dare say... 

 

Is there any other way? 

 

 

5 hours ago, maechanman said:

Born and raised in Manchester so my accent is distinctly Manc despite being over here for many years.

So Urdu then?

1 hour ago, Enoon said:

After all your years in the Orient do you speak English with an homogenised "Oriental" accent?

People say that I speak passa Thai with a Chinese accent. 

 

 

1 hour ago, Enoon said:

There can only be a ubiquity of accent if there is ubiquity of language.

Do you think your statement is logical? 

 

Or, clarifying, are you saying something that I agree with which is that if there was only one ubiquitous language, say English, there might still be an almost limitless number of different English accents... 

 

 

2 hours ago, Enoon said:

My friend (from one of those places up North......erm......yeah, that's it.......Darlington!) met a Thai person who learned their English, informally, in Newcastle.......thus they speak it sounding very much the Tynesider.

 

Would you presume that they speak Thai sounding like one?

YES! 

 

This is most definitely the case if... 

 

This Thai person you mention visited Newcastle and found that everyone she spoke to, Farang too, were speaking Thai with a Newcastle accent, then gradually this Thai woman would adopt the Newcastle accent when speaking Thai. 

 

Here, I think that you are referring to crosslinguistic influence (drift). 

 

 

I sound like Tony Soprano (The Sopranos Mafia TV Series)  from Noo Joisey.  Noo Joisey is in the USA. if youse don't know.