there's a line in the book of bill that really bothers me because I think I can grasp the thought process behind it, but if I'm right about the thought process, it's. incorrect.
the part in question involves a Puritan woman who talks to Bill (possessing a goat) and describes him as having the voice of an Englishman (sorry for the awful readability):
here's what I think happened: I'm 99% sure that Alex Hirsch heard the oft-repeated (and heavily simplified) fun fact that old-timey British people had an accent more like present-day Americans than present-day British people, but he misunderstood it and thought it meant, "an old-timey American would think a modern-day American sounds English", when really that wouldn't be true because it's not like the accents switched places with one another, they just diverged differently and American English retained some of the features that British English lost. And in the time period that page takes place in, that is to say, 1692, the accents wouldn't even have diverged very much yet, so ???
The only other explanation I can come up with for that line is that it's supposed to imply Bill was doing a fake accent for some reason? but he never does that with anybody else, ever, in any of the other historical segments. why would he speak American English in medieval times and victorian times but arbitrarily change his voice for this one specific situation lol
