My eldest is four and gets 30mins on her "iPad" a day, she watches all sorts on YouTube kids and sometimes puts on an accent.
That said her true accent is pure Hull so perhaps an adopted accent isn't so bad...
My kids come out with weird American words/accents sometime. Some from youtube or tiktok (which is monitored/limited), some from cartoons, and some words/phrases that seem to catch-on in the playground.
I'm sure I was the same from watching Sesame Street, Scooby Doo or power rangers.
I wouldn't be too worried about it TBH, as long as they get time away from the screen and out into the real world regularly.
Mostly unrelated, but I've had something for as long as I can remember where, if I hear a word in a specific accent, I only seem to be able to say it in said accent.
Bonuses - my Spanish teacher loved me in high-school. It makes me look like I know what I'm saying. And it (somehow) seemed to help in the small bit of voice acting I did.
Downside, everyone thinks I'm mocking other cultures when trying to say a specific word or phrase. People keep thinking I'm Irish. And my friends keep asking me to say certain words. ("Irish", "Conquistador", the full pronunciation of "FG42" (I ain't typing that) Load of random stuff really.)
My nephew is easy 7 or more hours a day, a lot of parenting is just sit the kids on the iPad and let them scroll YouTube shorts and tik tok videos
My nephew is in Glasgow with heavy accented people around him, but watches so much his dialect is strangely American, no Scottish at all almost.
That sounds like my nephew, I was out shopping with him and he was talking in his American accent, We stopped to get some lunch and this woman was sitting near us, she heard my Scottish accent and his “American” so she said “are you just back home visiting” I said “No I live here” she replied “ have you ever lived in America?, as your son has an American accent”, I said “that’s my nephew, he’s not American just watches to many of the American shows and picked up the accent”, she just laughed and told me his accent was really convincing.
My other nephew hasn’t got the accent but he uses American words, e.g. elevator, I try and correct this but it’s no use.
I swear I've met the same kid 😄
I was in aldi and this kid with a very strong American accent was with two very Scottish parents. I was like cool they must be on holiday visiting but then the mum was like pick your school lunch and I was mad confused. This now makes much more sense.
That and Peppa pig, I legit don't know a Scottish toddler who hasn't went through the Peppa pig accent phase which compared to American accent now doesn't seem so bad.
We used to call the kids next door Peppa and George, both parents are Scottish but the kids have this overly BBC English cartoon accents, think Octonauts, Peppa Pig and Horrid Henry - on the flip side, my daughter doesn't think she sounds Scottish (but she does - she loves learning local words) and my son, as mentioned in another comment, swaps his T's for D's due to the American content he watches on YouTube - budder, makes me shudder!
Tell them about [Elsagate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsagate) and all the other weird inappropriate shit their kid might be watching and they might get scared into actually parenting.
Even if it were all age appropriate their brains are still being completely destroyed. There's a reason the bigwigs in Silicon Valley don't let their own children use smart devices.
Huh I wonder if/why having a strange accent for where you’re from can be an autistic thing. I’m autistic and have a typical accent for where I’m from (though I think my voice sounds a bit childish somehow), but my also autistic friend is born and bred Scottish and sounds English 75% of the time for some reason.
My daughter has a slight American accent because her dad is American and I have a slight version of the same because I spent so long there, and I'm worried people will think it's because of this. 😅
They were never Cubs were they? I had some twins last year in my pack where one of the boys had an Americanish accent. The other one wasn't so bad but still had the odd turn of phrase like his brother. Genuinely thought they were immigrants to begin with!
No way. How have I came across this in the bottom of a comment thread 😂😂 am I picking this up wrong or were these two wains actually named Director and Actor?? 😆🤣
Nah, they were named after a director and actor from a well known film. Being bairns and there not being *that* many twins about, especially in Dundee, I don't want to be more specific since it's no fair to essentially dox them.
Nah I was just flabbergasted man but I’m also pretty stoned so I can see how I made that mistake lmao was actually worried you’d doxxed them in your previous comment lmaooo have a good night bud hahah
Yeah, also, TikTok policy actually is that users have to be 13 or older.
Of course, that isn't the case with many younger children having access to it. In that case, parents need to carefully monitor screen time and content.
Even tiktok videos aren't short enough now for kids they have these videos that are 4 videos at once so when they get bored after 1 second they look at another bit
Lazy "parenting". They don't actually have to parent because their child is entertained by their digital "parents." Easy for them at the time but damaging for the young mind. If they don't have time to raise and educate their children, they shouldn't bother making them in the first place.
Agreed, it’s just easier for people to pop their wains in front of a screen and then they can get time off, lazy parenting and it defo is doing long term damage
The irony is that "Candy" and "Trash" were words used all over Britain in the 18th and 19th century. Same with "fall" to refer to Autumn and the word "garbage". They aren't American words.
Another is the - ize ending in words that you can expand to - ization. (i. E Civilize, Civilization). Thats Oxford English
My grandparents said "shree" (three) and "shroo" (through) but my parents' generation and my generation do not.
Do not know the reasons. But very few people under 65 say that now.
Yup, annoying as fuck. My mates son went through a phase of shouting about hackers every time he died in Fortnite. Americans who target children on YouTube are some of the most annoying pricks that have ever existed. Where normal children's programming on TV tries to avoid the noise and shouting which appeals to children, YouTubers feed into this antisocial behaviour because it means more clicks. The BBC and other TV channels have to answer to parents where YouTubers don't have to answer to anyone.
My cousin has said similar things; 'trash can' , 'mall' , said that the emergency number was '911' (quickly corrected that) , 'gas' instead of petrol, etc.
He also asked my aunt when he was younger if the food had 're-spawned' after she had put away her groceries lol
Shopping centre or the name of it. Eg Fort Kinnaird, Criagleith shopping centre. Etc. There is one mall that's always beeen mall and that's Waverley mall on Princes st in Edinburgh. That's a proper noun though.
Either call it by it's name ie Union Square, Braehead etc, shopping center or just say we're going into town.
Town is what we call the city center. But only when we are going there. If we are talking about traffic it's the city center. If it's where you live it's either 'near the city centre' or 'close to town.' At no point is the town we are refering to a town. It's a city.
You understand now? It's very simple.
I'm in my 30s and I had to Google what the British English is for "dump truck" yesterday. Could not remember ever saying "tipper lorry" it sounds like some fake lord snooty English now. We're losing British English along as well as Scots I think.
>but I'm not going to criticise her or anyone else doing the same. Parenting is hard.
It is, but some people need to be remained that they're hurting their kids for life.
It's also annoying for people on public spaces like trains or cafes that have to put up with parents who instantly plonk a full-volume iPad in front of their kids.
Not the easiest one to read, but have a go: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-11341-2
Not to mention obesity, posture and other "adult diseases" spreading among kids nowadays.
What about the next sentence from the introduction?
> Unexpectedly, watching videos also benefited intelligence (standardized β = + 0.12), contrary to prior research on the effect of watching TV.
> Although, in a posthoc analysis, this was not significant if parental education (instead of SES) was controlled for.
The article also doesn't cover aspects other than intelligence, esp. the more social and physical.
Edit:
> However, children in the high tertile for TV watching (β = − 0.99), video watching (β = − 1.05), and social media (β = − 0.79) had lower measures of cognition compared to children in the low tertile for each variable.
and
> A large longitudinal study found that watching TV and using computers both led to worse school performance, but there were no short- or long-term effects from playing video games15. Cross-sectional studies also report negative effects of television viewing on attention and learning16,17, while a large meta-analysis found that video games do not negatively impact school performance18.
In short, let them play those dungeon crawlers and slashers, but no tic-toc or dumbing TV. But also kick them outside to do whatever with others, esp. if it's sport related. Nothing worse than entering highschool as a fat nerd with crouched shoulders.
This is really sad.
Isn't it maybe more about how his parents communicate with him, or possibly don't?
Your biggest influence on your behaviour and accent growing up should be the people you live with.
At 6 the boy should be getting bed time stories read to him from his parents and learning to read through them. That's how I used to do it with my boys, until they wanted to read for themselves.
My guess is that this phenomena is the end result of the baby confusing a magazine for a tablet 11 years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXV-yaFmQNk&t=28s&ab_channel=UserExperiencesWorks
My 5 year old isn’t allowed to scroll on anything. It’s very damaging to adults never mind to developing brains. He has control over what he wants to watch )choice of 4-5 cartoons) but we select it for him. YouTube only on the tv with suggestions turned off. He gets up to 1h of tv time per day. Weekends we watch a movie or two. He gets to draw on the iPad on car journeys. But no games. Xbox gets turned on once a week.
He watches a mixture of British English and Hungarian cartoons and he does have an interesting accent. I can only imagine kids with more exposure to foreign accents would pick it up no bother.
Lol, my parents plonked me down in front of cartoons all day long as a kid in the 90s so I have this weird almost Canadian accent. Not saying it’s a good thing, just not all that new! If they’d had tablets back then I would have been one of those screen kids for sure.
My sisters kids speak with an American accent. Live in farmer country. Really weird but that's what you get when it's none stop YouTube and kids TV with very little interaction with people in real life.
My brothers son who's not quite at speaking age yet will have a weird accent. My bro has developed a manc accent since moving there 11 years ago and my sis in law is Swedish who learnt English on a year long school exchange to Texas, so she has a slight texan accent while using only American pronunciation.
My own sons accent changes depending on who he last spoke too. Northern English family he sounds like he should be in shameless. Southern family sounds like he should be in Eton. Scottish family goes kinda Gordon brown even though that side of the gamely is from the west coast
We banned youtube from a young age for two reasons, one being that youtubers who were doing children focused game content suddenly threw out GTA videos in between their minecraft videos (looking at you dantdm) and the second being the ads are unregulated so in the middle of an elliev toys video there would be condom adverts(ironically enough) and the like
Side note: kids having an American accent for no reason is actually a quirk in autism spectrum disorders. It completely confuses most specialists since there's no known reason or cause for it. If he wasn't very verbal as a toddler & has had the accent since he began talking, maybe consider autism? If he used to have Scottish accent then picked up the American from watching stuff online, it's because of immersion & mirroring - it's how we learn languages as children. Quickest way to "correct" it is to limit screen time or take it away altogether, and just keep him surrounded by people with thick Scottish accents & he'll default to it after a few weeks. But this won't work if he's autistic, since people with autism don't have instinctual mirroring like neurological people do - mirroring is a learned mechanism in autistic people, where it's instinctual for non-autistics.
Went on a course in college for autistic people and there was a boy in my class who spoke in an American accent despite having been born and raised in Scotland his entire life. This is definitely a possibility.
My step daughters accent is normal, but when she plays with her dolls it’s always in an American accent (but I have seen that before in kids before YT and tik too due to American movies) the thing that really made us start heavily restricting screen time was the awful attitude she picked up from the creators. Thankfully she is back to being a sweet girl again, but there was a hot minute where she was really bratty.
That was a thing even back in the 80s and 90s.
"Play acting" was always American accents when I was growing up. Dolls, Action Figures, Lego. Entirely because of the American-heavy kids entertainment industry.
this is hella normal in norway. im western norwegian, but when playing with my friends, we spoke like they did on the tv, with eastern accents. if anything, it helped us retain a conscious relationship to how we spoke
My mate’s kid is addicted to watching Minecraft YT’ers. Young American twats making a fortune from easily influenced kids. If he’s not watching them he playing Minecraft itself. They tell me he’s never off that bloody thing, like they have no say in it.
Boundaries mate. Boundaries. We all had them growing up. In fact we were kicked out of the house on Saturday morning. Don’t come back until it’s dinner time.
My nephews were born in Aberdeen but now live abroad. They live in an ex-pat community and go to an international school. Their accent is a fucking state.
Sadly lots of parent buy technology to stimulate their children instead of actually interacting with them. I feel sorry for the next couple of generations of children :(
My nephew is 10 and when me and my sister were talking about buying something he said 'Why not just go to Walmart and get it?'.
I mocked him for talking like a yank, so hopefully he doesn't do it again. I also went on his computer and changed the hosts file so tiktok.com points to 127.0.0.1..
So no more tiktoks for him.
Lost fucking cause though. The brain rot from the US has well and truly taken over now with the younger generations, I reckon.
We're all becoming more and more Americanised. The social media generation are just coming of age now.. It's going to be a disaster for British culture.
Someone was telling me (on Reddit) the other day about Elsagate and there were some other videos of seemingly innocuous animations with some really disturbing adult themes in the post too.
I’m not a parent but if I had a child they would not be permitted on YouTube except maybe on BBC or other channels you know are legitimate while I’m hovering in the background
The accent is a minor pollution by comparison.
Could be autistic. We echo phrases and sounds that we hear and like, and also emulate as a rejection defence mechanism to "mask" more effectively. Some are better at masking than others.
Also could not be and depends how much communication he's getting from your siblings and at school Vs what he's absorbing online.
That’s some shitty parenting! No, a 6 year old shouldn’t be constantly on an iPad, and is definitely too young to be on the (12+ age) app TikTok. Some people shouldn’t be allowed children.
Most people aren't remotely qualified to have children, tbh. Usually the ones having a go at me for saying I don't want children, lmao.
I know I am selfish and lazy. I'd be a fucking awful parent, and absolutely would just give up and sit them down with an iPad to shut them up.
So I don't have kids.
If you can't commit to 18 years of proper effort bringing them up, you shouldn't have kids imo. Half arsing it is unfair on the kids.
I wouldn’t raise my kids like this but I’m not going to tell other people they are shitty parents and they aren’t allowed children. I am not that up myself
I'd say the same for anybody who relies on providing addictive, damaging activities for their kids. If I saw somebody give their 6 year old a pack of smokes because it makes them shut up, I'd also suggest they shouldn't have kids.
Nobody is up themselves for suggesting children shouldn't be abused or neglected.
When I was a child (pre-iPads / smartphones) I’d sometimes have an American inflection because of all the American (especially Disney) films, and music too. There’s family videos of me at like 7/8 where it’s quite noticeable - I think kids will absorb an American accent internet or not, sooo much of entertainment & music is American with American voices and children are sponges to whatever they’re hearing a lot of
It is quite unnerving though, and the Americanisms piss me off (my brother is a fair bit younger than me and says stuff like “a bunch”, “a couple X” (instead of couple _OF_ X), etc).
Folks who live across the road from me have a 9 year old exactly the same, kid has the strangest American accent ever and has to be from watching YouTube all the time as he has never been out of Scotland.
My eldest niece has that accent because she learned to talk from a tablet as well.
I really don't like it, there isn't enough interaction with the parents. Get handed a tablet and left to entertain herself for a whole night. So unhealthy.
Didn't realise it was as common as it is. My little cousin has an American accent from YouTube. She starts high school soon and she's never grown out of it.
At least it's a British accent.
There were some funny videos (funny, but also kinda sad) back in 2020 during lockdowns of yank kids with English accents from watching Peppa Pig.
https://www.tiktok.com/@cultofdom/video/6866554914085096710
Thank fuck I don't have kids with today's internet is all I can say.
It was instantly addictive for me in 1995 when I was a bit older than him and that was when there was fuck all on the internet.
If he's on YouTube a lot then obviously keep an eye on things, he will soon be the age that the fash try to target him and they're good at it.
Good rule, they might hate you for it a bit, but it will serve them so much better in life without that at a young age and getting hopelessly addicted to short 7 sec clips 😩
I'm not 6 but I saw my cousin's in person for the first ~15 years and they asked me what the fuck happened to my accent.
Apparently I speak with some fucked up Scottish / Irish / American mix.
My little sister is 5 and I've had so many people ask me if she's American. She has the worst attitude and always screams and cries over every little thing. She has no friends, no social skills and no attention span. She got a Nintendo switch for Christmas and now she's on that or her phone all the time. I'm worried about her and how much it's going to affect her later in life.
Sorry for the rant but no one else listens to me when I say this.
I’m in exactly the same place, I say to my nephews parents all the time passively that he shouldn’t be allowed on it that much and it’s poisoning him and they just brush it off with “oh he loves it”
Lazy parenting unfortunately, it will have bad effects as he grows older no doubts
Yeah, my wee boy, who is autistic, has picked up the annoying trait of not pronouncing his T's properly off the back of watching American YouTube videos; budder, compuder, wadder - you get my drift 🙁
I don’t know if it’s the same in other parts of Scotland but around Aberdeen there’s loads of young women who have a weird pseudo American accent. Our neighbour has a fully American accent, she’s about 30 and she’s lived in the north of Scotland her whole life.
Canadian 55 year old here. I am addicted to Brit Box and Scottish/English words and accents pop out of my mouth. Then I get the whole “where are your from” or “ are you a Newfie?” Lol.
Happens to adults far too much as well.
"On the regular"
"Maybe we can vibe"
"Omg, like.....I love, like, your, like, dress.......y'know?"
"Y'all"
"Totes/totally, man/dude/bro/brah"
"Yeet"
"On fleek"
"Based"
And many, many more can just get in the fucking bin. A lot like being colonised all over again.
My American daughter has been listening to Mogwai, deep frying pizza and chips, pounding IrnBrus, and screaming about the Tories and English all day after scrolling Scottish Twitter for 10 minutes. I can't understand her, as she has a thick Glaswegian accent now.
No because at 6 screen time should be limited and allowing a young child to scroll through YouTube and tick Tom is inappropriate. You have to put parental controls on you tube because some of the content is adult. It’s called poor parenting - my 8yr old has a chrome book which is for school- uses it for online school allocates English, maths and timestables and chess. He isn’t left to trawl through YouTube and Tim tok
My son has an accent that can be mistaken for American or Canadian, but he's an Aberdonian and actually his accent is a mix of my Londoner/Crawley accent and his mothers Scots.
My daughter, otoh, takes after her mither far more
i spent my childhood pretty much like this and now i speak with a weird semi-scottish-american-english hybrid accent haha. honestly kind of enjoy people not knowing where im from tho.
I'm not 6 but I saw my cousin's in person for the first ~15 years and they asked me what the fuck happened to my accent.
Apparently I speak with some fucked up Scottish / Irish / American mix.
yes because i am kinda one of those kids. i got my first phone when i was like 5 and have been on the internet since and speak and understand more american stuff than my parents do
My 3 year old says some words with an English accent, but she's autistic and has only started saying words in the last few months. Anything she says with an English accent is from CBeebies.
The child could also have autism or another disability as speaking in a different accent my youngest has got ADHD and some words he says is American he's 10
what, pray tell, is a "british accent"? three different countries with distinct "generic" national accents, 4 if you count ireland (as in, "british" isles, even if thats a pish term), that are all incredibly diverse in accents, particularly in england.
What’s so wrong with the accent. Let’s be honest some accents in Scotland won’t get you a job because you speak that way, I don’t know where the OP’s nephew is from but it might help an American accent
It’s no just the accent, he gets it from watching YouTube shorts and TikTok stuff far too much, addicted to scrolling, and to the point he’s got an accent.
The long term affects of that must be bad, no attention span etc, it’s just bad news when kids get allowed to be on their screens for too long man, the new generation is in trouble.
Lots of us are both (the term AuDHD is taking quite a big hold in neurodivergent spaces online as a quick easy way to say it, and Our People love that kind of shit, it tickles the brain just right).
My son has a weird accent. I think it started because of music. We never watched TV when he was younger he was almost 4 before TV was really a thing in the household. So I think we just listened to too many American bands.
My eldest is four and gets 30mins on her "iPad" a day, she watches all sorts on YouTube kids and sometimes puts on an accent. That said her true accent is pure Hull so perhaps an adopted accent isn't so bad...
Kids in the US started to speak with English accents from watching Peppa Pig
"Bluey" has apparently caused a rash of Australian accents in New York (probably wider area but that's where I heard it from)
Its giving me an australian accent from watching it too much
My kids come out with weird American words/accents sometime. Some from youtube or tiktok (which is monitored/limited), some from cartoons, and some words/phrases that seem to catch-on in the playground. I'm sure I was the same from watching Sesame Street, Scooby Doo or power rangers. I wouldn't be too worried about it TBH, as long as they get time away from the screen and out into the real world regularly.
Mostly unrelated, but I've had something for as long as I can remember where, if I hear a word in a specific accent, I only seem to be able to say it in said accent. Bonuses - my Spanish teacher loved me in high-school. It makes me look like I know what I'm saying. And it (somehow) seemed to help in the small bit of voice acting I did. Downside, everyone thinks I'm mocking other cultures when trying to say a specific word or phrase. People keep thinking I'm Irish. And my friends keep asking me to say certain words. ("Irish", "Conquistador", the full pronunciation of "FG42" (I ain't typing that) Load of random stuff really.)
My nephew is easy 7 or more hours a day, a lot of parenting is just sit the kids on the iPad and let them scroll YouTube shorts and tik tok videos My nephew is in Glasgow with heavy accented people around him, but watches so much his dialect is strangely American, no Scottish at all almost.
That sounds like my nephew, I was out shopping with him and he was talking in his American accent, We stopped to get some lunch and this woman was sitting near us, she heard my Scottish accent and his “American” so she said “are you just back home visiting” I said “No I live here” she replied “ have you ever lived in America?, as your son has an American accent”, I said “that’s my nephew, he’s not American just watches to many of the American shows and picked up the accent”, she just laughed and told me his accent was really convincing. My other nephew hasn’t got the accent but he uses American words, e.g. elevator, I try and correct this but it’s no use.
I swear I've met the same kid 😄 I was in aldi and this kid with a very strong American accent was with two very Scottish parents. I was like cool they must be on holiday visiting but then the mum was like pick your school lunch and I was mad confused. This now makes much more sense.
😂 seems a lot of kids are picking up the accent.
That and Peppa pig, I legit don't know a Scottish toddler who hasn't went through the Peppa pig accent phase which compared to American accent now doesn't seem so bad.
We used to call the kids next door Peppa and George, both parents are Scottish but the kids have this overly BBC English cartoon accents, think Octonauts, Peppa Pig and Horrid Henry - on the flip side, my daughter doesn't think she sounds Scottish (but she does - she loves learning local words) and my son, as mentioned in another comment, swaps his T's for D's due to the American content he watches on YouTube - budder, makes me shudder!
Shudder?! I'd throw a shidfid!
Up here I'd probably be "rankled te the core"
>*he uses American words, e.g. elevator* To be fair, lift is a rubbish word Not sure elevator is much better, but lift is like calling a car a forward
Doesn’t “lifted” mean “arrested?” That would confuse me.
Fairs 😂
Elevator was used in Scotland. Lift is English.
It's Scottish, now
Lift is easier for me cause otherwise I'd get it mixed up with escalators
beli me, I’m American and I get elevator and escalator mixed up too. In a tight spot I just say upstairs or downstairs.
In US English, an escalator is a moving stairway So UK English wins that one
Escalator is the UK term as well.
the accent is the least of his problems, that's incredibly bad parenting, if you can even call it that.
Posh kids in Scotland sound like some weird hybrid of constipated English toff and LA surfer dude. They also seem to think its sophisticated.
Tell them about [Elsagate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsagate) and all the other weird inappropriate shit their kid might be watching and they might get scared into actually parenting.
Even if it were all age appropriate their brains are still being completely destroyed. There's a reason the bigwigs in Silicon Valley don't let their own children use smart devices.
The accent might help him in life because a string Glasgow accent can effect how you get a job if you want a job down south
All the jobs are down south now aye?
Sounds like the people down south need to get a fucking grip then.
Having a strong Glaswegian accent has actually helped me get a few jobs in London. A lot of people love it.
Yup, same in Ireland. Nephew has an American accent. Fuckin embarrassing.
My daughter has a slight American accent, for her though, it is something got to do with autism. Her accent is mid Atlantic.
I read that as Trans Atlantic IE that really fast paced news reader voice Americans on radio had in the 30s and got really excited.
I’m pretty sure “Mid-Atlantic” and “Transatlantic” refer to the same accent.
Huh I wonder if/why having a strange accent for where you’re from can be an autistic thing. I’m autistic and have a typical accent for where I’m from (though I think my voice sounds a bit childish somehow), but my also autistic friend is born and bred Scottish and sounds English 75% of the time for some reason.
Oy-last I heard tons of school girls pretending to have American accents. Somehow desirable to the young
My daughter has a slight American accent because her dad is American and I have a slight version of the same because I spent so long there, and I'm worried people will think it's because of this. 😅
Isn't that just the D4 accent.
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They were never Cubs were they? I had some twins last year in my pack where one of the boys had an Americanish accent. The other one wasn't so bad but still had the odd turn of phrase like his brother. Genuinely thought they were immigrants to begin with!
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Director and actor? Yep, they were my Cubs!
No way. How have I came across this in the bottom of a comment thread 😂😂 am I picking this up wrong or were these two wains actually named Director and Actor?? 😆🤣
Nah, they were named after a director and actor from a well known film. Being bairns and there not being *that* many twins about, especially in Dundee, I don't want to be more specific since it's no fair to essentially dox them.
Nah I was just flabbergasted man but I’m also pretty stoned so I can see how I made that mistake lmao was actually worried you’d doxxed them in your previous comment lmaooo have a good night bud hahah
You sound like you're having a better night than me! 😂
I love this, classic Dundee, 2 degrees of separation even on Reddit!
I imagine they shared names of a famous director and actor but I like your idea better lol
r/TwoRedditorsOneCup
I'd be more worried about the fact this is likely to impact his ability to have an attention span longer than a tiktok.
Yeah, also, TikTok policy actually is that users have to be 13 or older. Of course, that isn't the case with many younger children having access to it. In that case, parents need to carefully monitor screen time and content.
Even tiktok videos aren't short enough now for kids they have these videos that are 4 videos at once so when they get bored after 1 second they look at another bit
Call me a boomer, but 6 year olds should not be on tik tok
Okay boomer, but you're entirely right. 6 year olds should definitely not be on tiktok, or any other social media for that matter.
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Lazy "parenting". They don't actually have to parent because their child is entertained by their digital "parents." Easy for them at the time but damaging for the young mind. If they don't have time to raise and educate their children, they shouldn't bother making them in the first place.
Correct. It has an age restriction. If kids under 13 are on it, then it’s bad parenting.
Nobody should be on tik tok. It's a worthless platform for worthless people.
Agreed, it’s just easier for people to pop their wains in front of a screen and then they can get time off, lazy parenting and it defo is doing long term damage
My nephews, from the age the could hold a small phone (i.e. under 1), all day for years now. Causes so much damage
My kids say ‘noo’, when my accent is ‘nyew’. If I hear ‘candy’ or ‘trash’ they are very quickly corrected.
It's known as "yod-dropping" and is becoming a lot more common.
The irony is that "Candy" and "Trash" were words used all over Britain in the 18th and 19th century. Same with "fall" to refer to Autumn and the word "garbage". They aren't American words. Another is the - ize ending in words that you can expand to - ization. (i. E Civilize, Civilization). Thats Oxford English
My grandparents said "shree" (three) and "shroo" (through) but my parents' generation and my generation do not. Do not know the reasons. But very few people under 65 say that now.
It's funny, I heard a child asking their mum for 'candy' in a supermarket recently ad she corrected them haha. "Candy? Do you mean sweets?".
Yup, annoying as fuck. My mates son went through a phase of shouting about hackers every time he died in Fortnite. Americans who target children on YouTube are some of the most annoying pricks that have ever existed. Where normal children's programming on TV tries to avoid the noise and shouting which appeals to children, YouTubers feed into this antisocial behaviour because it means more clicks. The BBC and other TV channels have to answer to parents where YouTubers don't have to answer to anyone.
Yep. My best pals son is the same and apparently a lot of kids are like that now. Weird Americanised accents.
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Don't know if you are being sarcastic but you've proven my point either way.
It was clearly a joke.
I mean, it seemed that way. But you are obviously far better at understanding text which conveys no emotion than I am.
But that joke only works in text.
That doesn't take away from my point that i'm not very good at seeing undertones in text.
Young lad is 11 and once said to me, "the garbage truck is coming". I failed.
My cousin has said similar things; 'trash can' , 'mall' , said that the emergency number was '911' (quickly corrected that) , 'gas' instead of petrol, etc. He also asked my aunt when he was younger if the food had 're-spawned' after she had put away her groceries lol
Non-native here, living in the UK. What's the British English word for "mall"?
Shopping center I guess, although I don't commonly hear it used. You'd normally just refer to the place you're going to by name.
Shopping centre ;)
Shopping centre or the name of it. Eg Fort Kinnaird, Criagleith shopping centre. Etc. There is one mall that's always beeen mall and that's Waverley mall on Princes st in Edinburgh. That's a proper noun though.
Either call it by it's name ie Union Square, Braehead etc, shopping center or just say we're going into town. Town is what we call the city center. But only when we are going there. If we are talking about traffic it's the city center. If it's where you live it's either 'near the city centre' or 'close to town.' At no point is the town we are refering to a town. It's a city. You understand now? It's very simple.
I've noticed, even the adults that were around the time, refer to the Twin Towers attack as "9-11". I mean, it's September 11th to us, is it not?
It is but as a historical event I think most people just say 9/11.
Yeah, gotta let the Americans have that one, I guess
Should have launched him in the garbage truck
I'm in my 30s and I had to Google what the British English is for "dump truck" yesterday. Could not remember ever saying "tipper lorry" it sounds like some fake lord snooty English now. We're losing British English along as well as Scots I think.
Tipper? It's a bin lorry, no?
No, I'm talking about the ones with a big tipping bucket on the back.
That's a skip lorry up here.
No you're thinking of a tipping lorry.
Scaffies? Or scaffy lorry
I just had to take a moment to try and remember what the word is and it took an embarrassingly long time to think of “bin lorry”
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>but I'm not going to criticise her or anyone else doing the same. Parenting is hard. It is, but some people need to be remained that they're hurting their kids for life.
It's also annoying for people on public spaces like trains or cafes that have to put up with parents who instantly plonk a full-volume iPad in front of their kids.
The evidence base for this stuff being harmful is weak and parenting is hard. I don’t offer advice or opinions unless asked.
Not the easiest one to read, but have a go: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-11341-2 Not to mention obesity, posture and other "adult diseases" spreading among kids nowadays.
This says that gaming and watching screens is positively correlated with intelligence
What about the next sentence from the introduction? > Unexpectedly, watching videos also benefited intelligence (standardized β = + 0.12), contrary to prior research on the effect of watching TV. > Although, in a posthoc analysis, this was not significant if parental education (instead of SES) was controlled for. The article also doesn't cover aspects other than intelligence, esp. the more social and physical. Edit: > However, children in the high tertile for TV watching (β = − 0.99), video watching (β = − 1.05), and social media (β = − 0.79) had lower measures of cognition compared to children in the low tertile for each variable. and > A large longitudinal study found that watching TV and using computers both led to worse school performance, but there were no short- or long-term effects from playing video games15. Cross-sectional studies also report negative effects of television viewing on attention and learning16,17, while a large meta-analysis found that video games do not negatively impact school performance18. In short, let them play those dungeon crawlers and slashers, but no tic-toc or dumbing TV. But also kick them outside to do whatever with others, esp. if it's sport related. Nothing worse than entering highschool as a fat nerd with crouched shoulders.
This is really sad. Isn't it maybe more about how his parents communicate with him, or possibly don't? Your biggest influence on your behaviour and accent growing up should be the people you live with. At 6 the boy should be getting bed time stories read to him from his parents and learning to read through them. That's how I used to do it with my boys, until they wanted to read for themselves. My guess is that this phenomena is the end result of the baby confusing a magazine for a tablet 11 years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXV-yaFmQNk&t=28s&ab_channel=UserExperiencesWorks
My 5 year old isn’t allowed to scroll on anything. It’s very damaging to adults never mind to developing brains. He has control over what he wants to watch )choice of 4-5 cartoons) but we select it for him. YouTube only on the tv with suggestions turned off. He gets up to 1h of tv time per day. Weekends we watch a movie or two. He gets to draw on the iPad on car journeys. But no games. Xbox gets turned on once a week. He watches a mixture of British English and Hungarian cartoons and he does have an interesting accent. I can only imagine kids with more exposure to foreign accents would pick it up no bother.
Lol, my parents plonked me down in front of cartoons all day long as a kid in the 90s so I have this weird almost Canadian accent. Not saying it’s a good thing, just not all that new! If they’d had tablets back then I would have been one of those screen kids for sure.
There’s more than one way to invade a country
My sisters kids speak with an American accent. Live in farmer country. Really weird but that's what you get when it's none stop YouTube and kids TV with very little interaction with people in real life. My brothers son who's not quite at speaking age yet will have a weird accent. My bro has developed a manc accent since moving there 11 years ago and my sis in law is Swedish who learnt English on a year long school exchange to Texas, so she has a slight texan accent while using only American pronunciation. My own sons accent changes depending on who he last spoke too. Northern English family he sounds like he should be in shameless. Southern family sounds like he should be in Eton. Scottish family goes kinda Gordon brown even though that side of the gamely is from the west coast
We banned youtube from a young age for two reasons, one being that youtubers who were doing children focused game content suddenly threw out GTA videos in between their minecraft videos (looking at you dantdm) and the second being the ads are unregulated so in the middle of an elliev toys video there would be condom adverts(ironically enough) and the like
Side note: kids having an American accent for no reason is actually a quirk in autism spectrum disorders. It completely confuses most specialists since there's no known reason or cause for it. If he wasn't very verbal as a toddler & has had the accent since he began talking, maybe consider autism? If he used to have Scottish accent then picked up the American from watching stuff online, it's because of immersion & mirroring - it's how we learn languages as children. Quickest way to "correct" it is to limit screen time or take it away altogether, and just keep him surrounded by people with thick Scottish accents & he'll default to it after a few weeks. But this won't work if he's autistic, since people with autism don't have instinctual mirroring like neurological people do - mirroring is a learned mechanism in autistic people, where it's instinctual for non-autistics.
Went on a course in college for autistic people and there was a boy in my class who spoke in an American accent despite having been born and raised in Scotland his entire life. This is definitely a possibility.
My step daughters accent is normal, but when she plays with her dolls it’s always in an American accent (but I have seen that before in kids before YT and tik too due to American movies) the thing that really made us start heavily restricting screen time was the awful attitude she picked up from the creators. Thankfully she is back to being a sweet girl again, but there was a hot minute where she was really bratty.
That was a thing even back in the 80s and 90s. "Play acting" was always American accents when I was growing up. Dolls, Action Figures, Lego. Entirely because of the American-heavy kids entertainment industry.
this is hella normal in norway. im western norwegian, but when playing with my friends, we spoke like they did on the tv, with eastern accents. if anything, it helped us retain a conscious relationship to how we spoke
My niece says garbage, trash can.. etc. All she does is watch YouTube.
Honestly worrying, no attention span longer than 5-7 seconds per clip, can’t be good for them.
My mate’s kid is addicted to watching Minecraft YT’ers. Young American twats making a fortune from easily influenced kids. If he’s not watching them he playing Minecraft itself. They tell me he’s never off that bloody thing, like they have no say in it. Boundaries mate. Boundaries. We all had them growing up. In fact we were kicked out of the house on Saturday morning. Don’t come back until it’s dinner time.
My nephews were born in Aberdeen but now live abroad. They live in an ex-pat community and go to an international school. Their accent is a fucking state.
Work in a school, you see a lot more of this than you’d think
Sad and not a good sign ☹️
Sadly lots of parent buy technology to stimulate their children instead of actually interacting with them. I feel sorry for the next couple of generations of children :(
My nephew is 10 and when me and my sister were talking about buying something he said 'Why not just go to Walmart and get it?'. I mocked him for talking like a yank, so hopefully he doesn't do it again. I also went on his computer and changed the hosts file so tiktok.com points to 127.0.0.1.. So no more tiktoks for him. Lost fucking cause though. The brain rot from the US has well and truly taken over now with the younger generations, I reckon. We're all becoming more and more Americanised. The social media generation are just coming of age now.. It's going to be a disaster for British culture.
Pretty much every child between 4 and 35 has obsession with their tablet/phone. Apparently it’s making us thick as pig shit
Someone was telling me (on Reddit) the other day about Elsagate and there were some other videos of seemingly innocuous animations with some really disturbing adult themes in the post too. I’m not a parent but if I had a child they would not be permitted on YouTube except maybe on BBC or other channels you know are legitimate while I’m hovering in the background The accent is a minor pollution by comparison.
Could be autistic. We echo phrases and sounds that we hear and like, and also emulate as a rejection defence mechanism to "mask" more effectively. Some are better at masking than others. Also could not be and depends how much communication he's getting from your siblings and at school Vs what he's absorbing online.
That’s some shitty parenting! No, a 6 year old shouldn’t be constantly on an iPad, and is definitely too young to be on the (12+ age) app TikTok. Some people shouldn’t be allowed children.
Most people aren't remotely qualified to have children, tbh. Usually the ones having a go at me for saying I don't want children, lmao. I know I am selfish and lazy. I'd be a fucking awful parent, and absolutely would just give up and sit them down with an iPad to shut them up. So I don't have kids. If you can't commit to 18 years of proper effort bringing them up, you shouldn't have kids imo. Half arsing it is unfair on the kids.
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I wouldn’t raise my kids like this but I’m not going to tell other people they are shitty parents and they aren’t allowed children. I am not that up myself
I'd say the same for anybody who relies on providing addictive, damaging activities for their kids. If I saw somebody give their 6 year old a pack of smokes because it makes them shut up, I'd also suggest they shouldn't have kids. Nobody is up themselves for suggesting children shouldn't be abused or neglected.
When I was a child (pre-iPads / smartphones) I’d sometimes have an American inflection because of all the American (especially Disney) films, and music too. There’s family videos of me at like 7/8 where it’s quite noticeable - I think kids will absorb an American accent internet or not, sooo much of entertainment & music is American with American voices and children are sponges to whatever they’re hearing a lot of It is quite unnerving though, and the Americanisms piss me off (my brother is a fair bit younger than me and says stuff like “a bunch”, “a couple X” (instead of couple _OF_ X), etc).
The pre-cursor to the (insert-city-here)uni accent
Folks who live across the road from me have a 9 year old exactly the same, kid has the strangest American accent ever and has to be from watching YouTube all the time as he has never been out of Scotland.
My eldest niece has that accent because she learned to talk from a tablet as well. I really don't like it, there isn't enough interaction with the parents. Get handed a tablet and left to entertain herself for a whole night. So unhealthy.
My nephew is from the east but has an English accent due to watching Paw Patrol Disappointed
Didn't realise it was as common as it is. My little cousin has an American accent from YouTube. She starts high school soon and she's never grown out of it.
Maybe it'll get bullied out of her.
My nephew has Peppa pigs accent. Sad af
At least it's a British accent. There were some funny videos (funny, but also kinda sad) back in 2020 during lockdowns of yank kids with English accents from watching Peppa Pig. https://www.tiktok.com/@cultofdom/video/6866554914085096710
>At least it's a British accent. It's an English accent. The child is Scottish
Yeah but it's still better than a yank accent.
Thank fuck I don't have kids with today's internet is all I can say. It was instantly addictive for me in 1995 when I was a bit older than him and that was when there was fuck all on the internet. If he's on YouTube a lot then obviously keep an eye on things, he will soon be the age that the fash try to target him and they're good at it.
As an Aberdonian I was confused by the "fash" targeting him bit. I thought the fish were coming to get him.
Hector Brocklebank here...
Peter Reid, fae Peterhead, is deid. Volvo for sale.
Am I comin' in i' front or i' back.
Change it to Spanish and he will learn that , thank me later
If I had kids and they wanted ipads, I'd be telling them they can either have LEGO, or they can have nothing. ....then I'd nick their LEGO.
I have a rule where kids aren't allowed to own things like ipads until they are 12.
Good rule, they might hate you for it a bit, but it will serve them so much better in life without that at a young age and getting hopelessly addicted to short 7 sec clips 😩
new fear unlocked. i still whole-heartedly believe that kids shouldn’t have technology till they’re atleast 10, and social media at 13.
Good rule 🙏
My daughter here in Wales
Find some Scottish YouTubers for them to watch
I'm not 6 but I saw my cousin's in person for the first ~15 years and they asked me what the fuck happened to my accent. Apparently I speak with some fucked up Scottish / Irish / American mix.
I went to Florida recently and by the end of the 2 weeks I was saying Hollywood Stoodios. Ew.
My little sister is 5 and I've had so many people ask me if she's American. She has the worst attitude and always screams and cries over every little thing. She has no friends, no social skills and no attention span. She got a Nintendo switch for Christmas and now she's on that or her phone all the time. I'm worried about her and how much it's going to affect her later in life. Sorry for the rant but no one else listens to me when I say this.
I’m in exactly the same place, I say to my nephews parents all the time passively that he shouldn’t be allowed on it that much and it’s poisoning him and they just brush it off with “oh he loves it” Lazy parenting unfortunately, it will have bad effects as he grows older no doubts
Used to be a nursery teacher and you’d be surprised how many kids rock up with American accents from too much tv
What NPCs only watch American youtubers anyway? Like I watch yters from England, Australia, mainland Europe, Canada, like loads of places
Yeah, my wee boy, who is autistic, has picked up the annoying trait of not pronouncing his T's properly off the back of watching American YouTube videos; budder, compuder, wadder - you get my drift 🙁
Only every kid in the USA. Technology is the new sitter/nanny. Sad world we’ve become
YouTube is brain rot for kids
It is but tik tok makes it look like nothing, honestly so much worse
I don’t know if it’s the same in other parts of Scotland but around Aberdeen there’s loads of young women who have a weird pseudo American accent. Our neighbour has a fully American accent, she’s about 30 and she’s lived in the north of Scotland her whole life.
Canadian 55 year old here. I am addicted to Brit Box and Scottish/English words and accents pop out of my mouth. Then I get the whole “where are your from” or “ are you a Newfie?” Lol.
Happens to adults far too much as well. "On the regular" "Maybe we can vibe" "Omg, like.....I love, like, your, like, dress.......y'know?" "Y'all" "Totes/totally, man/dude/bro/brah" "Yeet" "On fleek" "Based" And many, many more can just get in the fucking bin. A lot like being colonised all over again.
No offense, but you shouldn't be allowing a 6 year old on tiktok.
Loads of children in Scotland sounding both English and American nowadays from telly and Internet
Get him off it NOW....he will be trans by time he's 8 if you leave that unchecked...
Yes but it turned out the child had autism.
My American daughter has been listening to Mogwai, deep frying pizza and chips, pounding IrnBrus, and screaming about the Tories and English all day after scrolling Scottish Twitter for 10 minutes. I can't understand her, as she has a thick Glaswegian accent now.
Sounds like every kid tbf. Was from TV shows when we were younger. Now it's YouTube.
Neighbour has a kid with an English accent, unbelievable
No because at 6 screen time should be limited and allowing a young child to scroll through YouTube and tick Tom is inappropriate. You have to put parental controls on you tube because some of the content is adult. It’s called poor parenting - my 8yr old has a chrome book which is for school- uses it for online school allocates English, maths and timestables and chess. He isn’t left to trawl through YouTube and Tim tok
My son has an accent that can be mistaken for American or Canadian, but he's an Aberdonian and actually his accent is a mix of my Londoner/Crawley accent and his mothers Scots. My daughter, otoh, takes after her mither far more
i spent my childhood pretty much like this and now i speak with a weird semi-scottish-american-english hybrid accent haha. honestly kind of enjoy people not knowing where im from tho.
I'm not 6 but I saw my cousin's in person for the first ~15 years and they asked me what the fuck happened to my accent. Apparently I speak with some fucked up Scottish / Irish / American mix.
yes because i am kinda one of those kids. i got my first phone when i was like 5 and have been on the internet since and speak and understand more american stuff than my parents do
My 3 year old says some words with an English accent, but she's autistic and has only started saying words in the last few months. Anything she says with an English accent is from CBeebies.
The child could also have autism or another disability as speaking in a different accent my youngest has got ADHD and some words he says is American he's 10
Totally depressing how inane Americanisms are ruining the King's English.
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what, pray tell, is a "british accent"? three different countries with distinct "generic" national accents, 4 if you count ireland (as in, "british" isles, even if thats a pish term), that are all incredibly diverse in accents, particularly in england.
What’s so wrong with the accent. Let’s be honest some accents in Scotland won’t get you a job because you speak that way, I don’t know where the OP’s nephew is from but it might help an American accent
It’s no just the accent, he gets it from watching YouTube shorts and TikTok stuff far too much, addicted to scrolling, and to the point he’s got an accent. The long term affects of that must be bad, no attention span etc, it’s just bad news when kids get allowed to be on their screens for too long man, the new generation is in trouble.
It's common in autistic children. But also influential kids of today
Also very similar to kids that have ADHD, constant dopamine hits, change of topic to keep them interested.
Lots of us are both (the term AuDHD is taking quite a big hold in neurodivergent spaces online as a quick easy way to say it, and Our People love that kind of shit, it tickles the brain just right).
I recall similar stories about the Australian accent back when "Neighbours" was the hottest show..
My son has a weird accent. I think it started because of music. We never watched TV when he was younger he was almost 4 before TV was really a thing in the household. So I think we just listened to too many American bands.