MRW I went to a Madonna concert and before she started she went into a rant about how I should vote for Hilary Clinton.

brits living here permanently all the time

This is vital information and you need to be more specific. Also to what degree do those people partake in the Canadian language community. Do those people live within a British group in Canada where they are in Canada but they actually have a lot to do with other Brits. Like they live in Canada but the have British spouse with them, or a roommate or their best friend? Are they going back home every other month for extended period of time? Are they interested in staying in Canada or is it just a few years and they have no plans on staying? The type of immersion a person has within the language community is really important.

Most of the time Americans/Canadians/Brits concentrate on pronunciation when discussing the subject or use accent and dialect interchangeably. There is much, much more to this than mere pronunciation.

But it happens because you don't need former education to be able to converse coming from one going to the other. Other than say an Italian who wants to move to Russia who needs at least 3-5 years of studying and practicing the language. This is also the reason why (you may have noticed) foreigners who have gone through formal English language education have a better understanding about the language from a linguistic (scientific) standpoint than a regular person who was born and has lived there for 50 years. I for once haven't met an American irl who knew what Gerundium is or can write a table of the English Tenses with examples in under 5 minutes on a blank piece of paper. My English could be shit but I can draw that fucking table in my sleep.

We're not talking about pronunciation alone, there's a whole bunch of other things that you need to consider like vocabulary, grammar. Not to mention the fact that differences are often times harder to catch if you're not looking at an Italian speaking Russian. But they are there, oh yes they are.

The way people learn and use language is the reason for that. And community has the biggest role in it. We've seen this in other animals with complex communication skills. Whale/bird scientists can instantly tell you what region a certain bird is from or if the birds "talking" are related. Take a parrot from one place and put him in another and it will start talking in the new dialect after a time. Back to humans forensic scientists can easily detect if someone has spent some time in a different place and evidence like this could be used in courts.

I live in a colorful international place and I have yet to meet a person who has taken active part in the local language community who hasn't seen his own language impacted by it like your examples. Even the native speakers start molding their language with "wrong" foreign pronunciations.

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