ETWs in game languages

[Freedom Onanist]

At that time though, British sounded much CLOSER (though not exactly like) to modern Americans than to modern British. It was a very raw and growling language and they graged their vowels out really long. That is the opinion of most important lingual experts I have heard at least.

I am not arguing witht he fact that British English evolved more in the intervening 200 years than US English. After all, for a large part of that time there was a larger population speaking and introducing evolutionary steps into the language in Britain than the US. However, also there are many, many different accents in the UK, even patois, these became mixed in the US.

I am just saying that people speaking English in N America and Britain 2-300 years ago wouldn't have sounded as far apart as we do today. Whether that sounded more like "American" today is a bit irrelevant because then it was British. It doesn't make sense to have Brits sounding like americans to today's audience, so the British sounding Americans (in context).

Gosh! Here we go again!

Yes colonials in 1775 sounded just like the home land…

It was the homeland that changed the way they spoke, not the colonials who became the US…

What do Canadians sound like?

The Brits changed their friggen accent not the other way around!!!!

So it might be best if the Americans sound American rather than have an accent that didn’t exist yet!

Oh dear As per above. Thanks for agreeing with me (in large bold CAPS ) that the Americans of the day sounded like the Brits of the day....