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Representative Matt Gaetz has faced mockery on social media following a tweet about American children picking up British accents because of how much they've watched British TV show Peppa Pig.
Gaetz, a Republican who represents Florida's 1st congressional district, was responding to an article by The Wall Street Journal's Meghan Boborowsky about the popular show's effects on U.S. children's speech.
Boborowsky tweeted: "American kids watched so much Peppa Pig during the pandemic that they developed British accents and started regularly using British words like 'holiday' instead of 'vacation,' confusing their parents."
Retweeting the journalist, Gaetz wrote: "We fought wars so this wouldn't happen."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/matt-gaetz-mocked-after-saying-us-fought-wars-so-kids-dont-get-british-accents/ar-AAMmFl7
Truth is Gaetz is an easy target.
Ocelot II
(115,930 posts)he'd be speaking Russian.
aeromanKC
(3,330 posts)Aristus
(66,494 posts)"Gawd-DAMN, he's a stoopid sumbitch!..."
Solly Mack
(90,795 posts)LMAO
SWBTATTReg
(22,191 posts)hand.
50 Shades Of Blue
(10,080 posts)Hayley Mills and Deborah Kerr movies, watching The Adventures of Robin Hood (Richard Greene TV series), and listening to my parents' Camelot and My Fair Lady (Julie Andrews) soundtracks. This was in the early 60's...
Somehow I never confused my parents.
dawg
(10,625 posts)n/t
tritsofme
(17,421 posts)well after the Revolution. Modern Americans probably sound more like 18th century English speakers on both sides of the pond compared to modern day Brits.
DavidDvorkin
(19,503 posts)Hela
(441 posts)Treefrog
(4,170 posts)And muppet.
BlueStater
(7,596 posts)crickets
(25,988 posts)iemanja
(53,093 posts)And that they might get a British accent? Yet somehow the fact he molests kids is okay by him.
IcyPeas
(21,928 posts)Iggo
(47,583 posts)Thanks, Pepa Pig.
Iggo
(47,583 posts)Sympthsical
(9,161 posts)Super interesting article about it:
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180207-how-americans-preserved-british-english
So the hoity-toity posh accent of Hollywood Shakespeare dramas is . . . not even close, lol.
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