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Faking an accent
I was kinda taken back when I first heard Hugh Laurie (House TV show) speak in his own dialect...he can really pull off an American accent on his show, and now Brittney Spears is running around trying to do an English accent.
To the Brits here, is it easy to copy an American accent? There are so many...Boston, Southern, New York, etc...
I suppose the English have allot of varied dialects as well.
Do the English, Aussies, Scotts ever try to copy an American accent for fun or any other possible reason?
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| January 24, 2008, 21:15 |
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Re: Faking an accent
QUOTE (Chazzy @ January 24, 2008, 21:15)I was kinda taken back when I first heard Hugh Laurie (House TV show) speak in his own dialect...he can really pull off an American accent on his show, and now Brittney Spears is running around trying to do an English accent.
To the Brits here, is it easy to copy an American accent? There are so many...Boston, Southern, New York, etc...
I suppose the English have allot of varied dialects as well.
Do the English, Aussies, Scotts ever try to copy an American accent for fun or any other possible reason?
I heard Hugh in an interview and he has a hard time with it. Lots of bloopers of him saying "bloody hell!"  My parents were European immigrants so I can fake their accents quite well, which for me is good since I'm a speed talker and using an accent slows down my speech 
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| January 24, 2008, 22:16 |
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Re: Faking an accent
Being from the South, alot of people on TV try to immitate a Texas accent but don't really hit the mark. I've been told I have an accent but I think it is more my sayings that make me southern than my accent. I personnally don't hear that I have one...especially when talking to someone up north. When I was in Boston years ago a few of my friends and I walked around one night (after a few drinks) and faked their accent...we had a great time but I'm certain the locals knew better.
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| January 24, 2008, 22:22 |
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Re: Re: Faking an accent
QUOTE (Juilianna @ January 24, 2008, 22:22)Being from the South, alot of people on TV try to immitate a Texas accent but don't really hit the mark. I've been told I have an accent but I think it is more my sayings that make me southern than my accent. I personnally don't hear that I have one...especially when talking to someone up north. When I was in Boston years ago a few of my friends and I walked around one night (after a few drinks) and faked their accent...we had a great time but I'm certain the locals knew better.
Juilianna, in New England, the only accents attributable to any particular areas or states would be your Boston local, Worcester, and the down east (Maine). Other than those particular areas, you would not be able to pinpoint what part of New England that person is from. 
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| January 25, 2008, 07:59 |
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dave2big
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Re: Faking an accent
through years of watching too much television, i can do a pretty good southern accent,also,irish,german,swiss and even russian. now i dont speak any other language,but rather those people speaking english. truly the only other language i know is sign language. i learned that back in 1973 so i could talk to a local guy that was deaf and only talked with his hands................
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| January 25, 2008, 09:07 |
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Re: Faking an accent
When House first started, I told my daughter that he is actually British. She didn't believe me at first. A Bit of Fry and Laurie... love that show.
Talkin' about faking a southern accent. Morisa Tomei in Wild Hogs  Too funny!
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| January 25, 2008, 10:23 |
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Even though i'm from Essex i sound more like a Londoner, all my family are Londoners. I do find it funny when you hear people trying to speak like cockneys!!!
I do the southern Irish accent a lot as half my family are Irish. Never tried to speak American, but i do like the accent.
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| January 25, 2008, 12:56 |
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cjroxy
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Hot and Balmy, England, UK
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tom Hanks was on the Jonathon Ross show last week trying to do a british accent and he sounded like Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins!! it was hysterical.
There are so many different local accents/sayings that only the locals can do it right!!
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| January 25, 2008, 16:41 |
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funlovingpair
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Frozen Tundra, Minnesota, US
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Re: Faking an accent
But I don't have an accent, its all ya that have the accent. I only speak American English.
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| January 25, 2008, 17:23 |
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Re: Faking an accent
Its like, tooootally easy. Dudes.
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| January 25, 2008, 19:23 |
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Re: Faking an accent
we here, in minneSOta, we've been told that we have accents...don'cha know?
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| January 25, 2008, 22:27 |
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funlovingpair
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QUOTE (lonelyandhorny @ January 25, 2008, 22:27)we here, in minneSOta, we've been told that we have accents...don'cha know?
Yea that's what they say, but we know the truth, we don't have accents, they do.
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| January 27, 2008, 21:18 |
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Re: Re: Re: Faking an accent
QUOTE (funlovingpair @ January 27, 2008, 21:18)
I've been to Minneapolis ( Coon Rapids actually) quite a bit and most of the Minnesotans I've had the pleasure of speaking with sound Canadian more than any other state I've been in. Eh!
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| January 27, 2008, 23:03 |
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Re: Faking an accent
Yeah.. gotta go with... funloving on this one.. Even though i haven't really been anywhere further south of missouri yet to really get the southern accent, but have been told else where that we're the ones with the accent and not y'all.
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