Your Kid Might Be Picking Up A New Accent From Gaming

You might’ve noticed your child who enjoys online gaming, particularly formats like Fortnite’s Battle Royale, sometimes sounds a little, well, different.

It might be that they’ve switched to what linguists call ‘Fortnite accents’ – high-pitched and fast-paced accents with an upward inflection at the end of each sentence, almost as if everything is being said in the tone of a question.

According to experts at the English language classes platform Preply, the accent “mimics the sound...