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Think of any place in the anglosphere not corrupted by any different form of AAVE, you can't. In the US you of course have AAVE, in UK you have Pakis speaking a mutt language. in Australia and NZ you have non paki curries diluting the tongue and mixing in their tropical accents. It's gonna be very over pretty soon, not that the natives hadn't done the harm in Australia and NZ already, but it was accentuated terribly by 2020.
The advantage that ESLs have come to when pronouncing words fully according to their spelling will eventually make them seem more "middle english" than descendants of the middle english.
if aliens were to come in about 400 years they'd predict that some pashtun who said "k-nicht" for "knight" is the true infamous anglo
The advantage that ESLs have come to when pronouncing words fully according to their spelling will eventually make them seem more "middle english" than descendants of the middle english.
if aliens were to come in about 400 years they'd predict that some pashtun who said "k-nicht" for "knight" is the true infamous anglo