brits doing american.
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- Jaline0
I don't know what it is....there is *something* that gives it away that someone's accent isn't what it actually is. At least I have been noticing it more lately. Probably because I have something like that too when I speak, since I learned various languages as a youngster. Similar to a very subtle difference in the way a person says the letter "s".
Anyhoo....let's not dwell on this any longer....
- mickeybliss160
most american comedies aren't funny - particularly The Class
oh my god that show is bad
just thought i'd add that
- Wasn't it billed as 'the funniest comedy from the writers of friends, since friends'?ian
- jevad0
I was doing an american for a while - then I got divorced.
ha ha
- forbes0
well its only fair that we british be crap at american accents..
american tv tend to stereotype us british as posh tea-drinking game hunters who live in cottages and go to royal galas wearing wigs..
we, i n return, mess up our american accent..
fair trade me thinks
- so... tea, hunting, cottages, wigs... it's not true? Damn.********
- so... tea, hunting, cottages, wigs... it's not true? Damn.
- jevad0
"american tv tend to stereotype us british as posh tea-drinking game hunters who live in cottages and go to royal galas wearing wigs."
Well I don't know what you do for fun but that sounds like a good weekend to me...
- ian0
What about the standard Irish accents that american actors seem to think is authentic? The cork accents in Heroes was fucking deadful, James Cromwell in L.A. Confidential was shit as was the irish terrorists in sin city, devils own, etc etc. Irish accents in films usually make me cringe and completely ruin the suspension of disbelief.
We do not say 'laddie' 'boyo' or 'begorrah'.
- I'm not irish and I too cringe massively when yanks try to fake it. begorrah begorrah to be sure to be surekelpie
- Yeah, or the pretend 'oirish' accent when someone is actually making a joke and trying to be funny...ian
- i'm married to one of 'em and i wouldn't DARE attempt it.paraselene
- Weren't some of the ones from "Heroes" real? Because that girl totally did the same accent in CSIJaline
- nah, shes from london, and the accent she was doing was the standard 'orish' country bumpkin!ian
- DaveO0
I always thought Jude Law was American after The Talented Mr Ripley.
- forbes0
living in belfast i meet alot of americans who think they're 'irish' just cos their great-great-great-great brother in law's friend visited ireland many centuries ago.. and because of that they think they have some attachment to the country and therefore try to speak like us!
pathetic really but funny at the same time...
- Yeah, Americans always seem to bang on about their Irish heratage even though it was like 10 generations ago and its mixed in with 10 different origins...kalkal
- mixed in with 10 different origins...kalkal
- i know its pretty annoying how alot of americans wanna boast about their irish heritage which is non-existant.. alot of irish people i know dont give a shit but know we benefit from americans money so are happy to let them think what they want!forbes
- I've known one Canadian to do this, and it was REALLY annoying. Can't imagine more of them.Jaline
- YAYPaul0
Claire Danes in Stardust is an example of that 'posh it up' English accent by a yank... Not bad though, the accent too.
- kelpie0
this guy's pretty good in The Wire
- kelpie0
another thing; black british male actors always have to go to the states to get any decent roles, it happens time and time again, and there are piles of good ones. Its like the whole thing in microcosm: shit TV shows in the UK but great acting talent, so it all gets exported into the well written stuff across the pond. Not much call for british characters in yank tv and film so they all have to assimilate
- There was an article in the guardian about this a couple of months ago, a lot of british actors need to go abroad cos...ian
- theres just better roles open to em. See heroes, lost etc etc.ian
- Well maybe you Brits should get "some better roles". It really comes down to the culture...Jaline
- Aye, thats what its about, seemingly very few writers in the uk are writing good roles for so called 'ethnic' characters.ian