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ELIF: accents

How they are formed. Why is it that countries like America and Australia, both originally colonies of Britain, have such different accents from the motherland. How come England has strong, varied accents in such a small country whereas Australia doesn't seem to vary *that much* state by state. Etc.

Just accents in general, I guess.
gpt
Think of it this way: you know how when you spend lots of times with your friends, and you have all of these inside jokes and funny sayings and made-up words? Well, it's sort of like that: when you spend all your time with the same people, you tend to use these inside jokes and made-up words all the time, and that's sort of like accents.

But, if you hang out with lots of different people all the time, you pick up some of their jokes and funny made-up words, then you end up mixing up your inside jokes with theirs, and then you all end up sounding similar.

In England and older countries like that, since there were no trains or means to get around, people couldn't meet other groups of people very easily, so they ended up sticking with their own funny made-up words, or in other words, their accents. But in places like America and Australia, which have had modern transportation like trains for almost all of their existence, they got to move around and experience lots of different groups of people, and so there wasn't really a chance to form really solid accents.