PointAndClique [they/them]

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  • if the occurrence of loudness of a canadian and yankee were completely alike, in an observation of loud north americans loud yankees would always outnumber loud canucks, because the yankees so overwhelmingly outnumber the canucks.

    Ngl I’d be hard pressed to tell apart a loud Canadian from a loud USAian. Not exposed enough to the difference in accents to reliably guess. So yes, there’s that NA conflation factor going on. Anecdotally, USAians here say they’re Canadian to dodge anti -american sentiment if it crops up, same as Kiwis will cop flak for the misbehaviour of Australians


  • I wrote up a huge reply at 3 am and then hit refresh by mistake and lost it. I think to a large degree you’re right, that it’s some sort of bias where you only notice the louder people. Secondly, an American English accent will stick out more against a backdrop of other accents/languages. But, what spurred me to make this comment was that there was this pair of people with American accents sitting halfway down the train carriage, with about dozen other people chatting away in between them, and I could hear every word of the American accented peoples’ conversation and only murmurs of the others closer to me. It also struck me that they were trying to lower their volume (being on public transport). it’s this weird thing where I’ve only ever beem exposed to a subset of Americans who travel, having never been to the USA. I don’t know if they’re a representative sample being probably wealthier, or if they speak louder cos they’re excited, or they think they need to speak louder to be understood by the locals or what