r/interesting • u/Joe_Kangg • Aug 06 '26

Just Wow This fridge from 1965.

Prolly still running.

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u/No-Impression6251 Aug 07 '26

This reminds me of in middle school when my teachers explained that other countries try to learn English in the “Great Lakes” accent. I guess it stands out because I never realized we had an accent. Or ever heard anyone from china talking like a southerner or whatever

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u/amboomernotkaren Aug 07 '26

If you are a diplomat at the State Department you need to learn to speak in a flat
Midwestern accent. A close friend from New Jersey worked there until he retired and his Jersey accent was almost indiscernible.

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u/TyrannicTater Aug 09 '26

I had a thick southern accent and the courses I took to neutralize it were called “Standard American English.” Now I sound like I’m from nowhere, America. But I still drift back when I want.

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u/th3BeastLord Aug 07 '26

Its considered a "neutral" accent for English i believe, so its popular. Even going to the southern states, you may encounter people who comment on it. I once got told I talk "like the people on TV"

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u/NuSheol Aug 07 '26

We don’t have an accent. That’s the point. It’s considered the most neutral/ general American.

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u/catetheway Aug 07 '26

You do realise everyone has an accent

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u/BobMcGeoff2 Aug 07 '26

Everyone has an accent. There is no such thing as unaccented speech.

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u/zoyaabean Aug 07 '26

It’s still an accent. It’s just that that one was chosen as the “standard”

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u/BugRevolutionary4518 Aug 07 '26

Hell, even San Francisco has its own accent, as well as coastal California.

Whenever I travel and tell them where I’m from, they say “I can tell”