[REALLY Niche Vancouver linguistics post] there is definitely a Burnaby accent that young people especially teenagers speak but it's difficult to characterize because it is basically: abstracted gangster + whatever your home accent is
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Imagine going "yooo b-town represent" but in a Chinese accent, Punjabi accent, Persian accent, etc. You recognize it when you hear it! I feel like it's not linguistically documented because of how heterogeneous it is but paradoxically it is very consistent! It's like diaspora kids all agreeing to
speak the same way while bringing their own languages to the table. I think that's just neat and kinda goes against what we think of when we think of accents having a regularized phonology.
That was a little linguistics thought that has been in my head for a whole that I needed to get out:) I think it's also different from Surrey Jack because SJ has a unique vocabulary and is more heavily influenced by indo-canadians
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