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I have an interest in linguistics and in American dialects in particular, so I was wondering whether the women from the clips below sound to you like born and bred Americans, or whether you would think that at least some of them are foreign-born:

  1. https://vimeo.com/1236904493
  2. https://vimeo.com/1234692635
  3. https://vimeo.com/1235383443
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[-] nipawomset@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

I would hope that the more regularly people interact with AI slop, the more obvious it becomes to them that it's, for lack of a better term, soulless - and soullessness is intuitively repugnant.

[-] nipawomset@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Everyone's account is 1 day old at some point. And only one of those clips is even remotely business-related. My general question is purely language-related - the specific contents of these clips are purely incidental.

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Will the difference between mass-produced glossy garbage and unique results of sustained human effort and productivity become ever more pronounced, leading to a massive increase in the value of the latter in the eyes of not just connoiseurs, but the masses as well?

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I thought I might share a small phonetic game/challenge with you. All 3 individuals in the attached clips were born and raised in the same non-Anglophone country and speak the same native language. Can you tell, based on the peculiarities of their English pronunciation, what language it is?

  1. https://vimeo.com/1205985914
  2. https://vimeo.com/1206296678
  3. https://vimeo.com/1206827782
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Will the difference between mass-produced glossy garbage and unique results of sustained human effort and productivity become ever more pronounced, leading to a massive increase in the value of the latter in the eyes of not just connoiseurs, but the masses as well?

[-] nipawomset@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

spoilerThey indeed are! Was there any particular hint that led you to this conclusion?

[-] nipawomset@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

spoilerCorrect, they are Polish. Except all of them moved to Anglophone countries in young adulthood - none of them is what you would call a heritage speaker.

[-] nipawomset@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

The correct answer is:

spoilerPolish. Thanks for your guesses and congratulations to all those who were close or even hit the nail on the head, even if somewhat hesitantingly.

[-] nipawomset@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago
[-] nipawomset@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I suppose that's a pretty solid indication that they learned it well 🙂

[-] nipawomset@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

spoilerOne of your picks is correct
🙂

[-] nipawomset@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

They both initially moved to England for university - him at 19 and her at 21.

[-] nipawomset@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

That's right, none of them is a native speaker of English - their English is learned via the standard combination of school, extracurricular courses, media exposure, and other typical means available in largely monolingual countries, and subsequently polished up abroad (at least two of them moved to Anglophone countries for university). Thus, I figured that the undercurrent of their native pronunciation should be sufficiently conspicuous to allow for making some educated guesses about their origin 🙂

[-] nipawomset@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

„Then 3 hit me with surprise rhoticity and now I’m confused.” Hopefully at that point the challenge became entertaining 🙂

[-] nipawomset@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

That’s an interesting and unexpected guess. It would seem to me that no. 3 in particular doesn’t sound even remotely Welsh, but perhaps absolutely wild guesses (to use your phrase) dispense with such stereotypical assumptions🙂

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