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Anonymous Posted 5 years ago
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I’ve noticed American English emphasizes noun a lot. Am I wrong?
  

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anonymous I’ve noticed American English emphasizes noun s a lot. Am I wrong? Yes, unless you can produce some sort of evidence, with examples.

— Rover_KE

  • anonymous I’ve noticed American English emphasizes noun s a lot.
  • Am I wrong?
  • Yes, unless you can produce some sort of evidence, with examples.
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anonymous I’ve noticed American English emphasizes nouns a lot. Am I wrong?
Yes, unless you can produce some sort of evidence, with examples.
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What do you mean by "emphasize"? That they are pronounced more strongly, used more frequently, or preceded by an emphatic word?

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anonymousI’ve noticed American English emphasizes nouns a lot.

Nouns and verbs are stressed more than the functional words of English such as 'of', 'with', 'the', 'some', 'a', 'and', and so on. Maybe that's what you're referring to?

This is characteristic of all English, however, not just the American variet

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Most probably I’m wrong. Only thing I can think of right now is saying “Where do/should I throw it away?” and getting mocked, I’m not sure for that though. Later I was thinking maybe I should’ve said, “Where’s the trash can?” ?? Maybe what I said isn’t common?? “Where should I trash it” would also be uncommon??

I might be overthinking. Using correct english, lingo and being understood i

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