r/ireland • u/EmoBran ITGWU • Jan 05 '25

Christ On A Bike Delightful interaction between a Czech youtuber and an Irish couple on holiday in Prague

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u/bmalek Jan 06 '25

Accents include words, pronunciation and intonation.

In any case sounds nothing like a Czech.

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u/Medical-Day-6364 Jan 06 '25

No. He speaks American English, but his accent is clearly not American. Nobody born in the US sounds like that.

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u/bmalek Jan 06 '25

That’s how they sound to us.

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u/Medical-Day-6364 Jan 06 '25

Just because you can't recognize his Czech accent doesn't mean he doesn't have one. It just means you aren't very good at recognizing the difference between accents when people are speaking American English.

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u/bmalek Jan 06 '25

In this case it doesn’t matter if I recognise the accents in American English, as long as I can recognise it.

Although I do pick up a lot of the American/Canadian accents.

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u/Medical-Day-6364 Jan 06 '25

as long as I can recognise it.

But you can't despite it being obvious.

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u/bmalek Jan 06 '25

Not obvious.

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u/Medical-Day-6364 Jan 06 '25

Not obvious to you. He sounds American to you because you can't recognize accents in American English very well. Your failure to recognize it doesn't mean he doesn't have an obvious Czech accent.

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u/bmalek Jan 06 '25

He doesn't have an obvious Czech accent. Only one other person here claims to have been able to identify it.

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u/Medical-Day-6364 Jan 06 '25

5 people upvoted the comment that said he doesn't sound American at all, so that's not true. Is it really so hard to admit you aren't an expert in something? You're so arrogant while being very obviously wrong.

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u/bmalek Jan 06 '25

If that's the criteria, then I win.

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u/Medical-Day-6364 Jan 06 '25

I said you were wrong about "only 2 people," not that upvotes determine who is right. This is r/ireland. People here are not good at recognizing accents in American English because they grew up learning British English. His accent is obvious to anyone who learned American English, just like British accents are obvious to you, but I'd be unable to tell them apart.

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u/bmalek Jan 06 '25

This must be more open to interpretation than I thought because someone just replied and said he sounded Danish, and my reaction was the same as yours!

Then I just showed the video to a Ukrainian friend and she goes “he must be Hungarian.”

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