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Linguistic accommodation
An interesting commentary by Assoc Prof Tang Ying Ying of NTU on TikTok CEO's use of American features in his speech at the US Congress. In her commentary, Prof Tang makes reference to linguistic accommodation, a linguistic phenomenon where the speaker assimilates to the speech patterns of his/her speech partners for specific reasons. In this instance, the CEO accommodated to the American accent to close the gap between him and the US lawmakers and make himself more acceptable to them, or that's what he thought. Worth a read, I think. https://www.channelnewsasia.com/commentary/tiktok-chew-shou-zi-singaporean-ceo-speech-accent-american-features-3395481 I'm with Prof Tang with regards to her observation that there seems to be a preference for the American accent over the British accent. It's like as if you have arrived if you speak English with the post-vocalic 'r' typical of the American accent. But historically, Singaporeans grew up with the Singapore version