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Originally Posted by Acajack
Accents are morphing all over the world in all language families. We are generally sounding more and more the same.
Accents that are truly "out there" (at least in terms of unintelligibility) will become rarer and rarer for people who are from the same language family.
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With the media it's pretty normal. A few generations ago everything you heard was in the accent of your neck of the woods... not anywhere near the case anymore.
My cousins in Nice are sounding much more like Parisians than their grandfathers did. I think my grandpa who's now retired in the Eastern Townships still has more of a Provençal accent right now than them in spite of having lived here for exactly 60 years this summer...
I expect Ontario kids to tend to speak English more and more like the people on TV and the internet do. I am sure this slow phenomenon has been going on for a few decades already.
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