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Re: Phony British Accents

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I like most authentic British accents. It's just those phony ones that American actors put on in roles where they're not even portraying Brits that get to me.

I don't know what you call it, but there's a particular habit of a lot of Brits where they substitute the "v" sound for the "r" sound -- the word tray becomes tvay, the word relax become velax, et cetera. When I first heard this, I thought it was a speech impediment, as I've heard a few Americans with that speech impediment, but I've found that it's so common among Brits that it must be a phenomenon related to an accent, not an actual speech impediment.

I actually kind of like how it sounds, though.
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Well, most of the time I have a rather annoying nasal "estuary" accent a bit like Ken Livingstone. If you haven't heard him, and have seen Rowan Atkinson's Thin Blue Line series, I sound very much like the inspector from C.I.D. in that.

On those occasions (rare) when my allergies are not affecting me at all, I sound pleasantly like the Geiko Gekko, or a gentler version of Michael Caine.
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nagerous wrote:Americans can't do British accents. Period.




i thought Brad Pitt played a good Pikey in Snatch. :D




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Pedronicus wrote:
thegreekdog wrote:At least in 300 they made the Greeks look Greek.


Q: How do you spot a greek woman?
A: She doesn't need a suspender belt to keep her stockings up

Q: How do the Greeks separate the men from the boys?
A: With a crowbar.

Something else that was totally omitted from Troy. I suppose that in these days of film-making-by-comity the studios assumed that audiences would have been put off by Brat Pitt playing a tunic-lifter... especially one as notoriously hard as Achilles.
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By the way, I speak with a south Wales valleys accent, like this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaaD677eUZo&feature=channel_page
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i have the accent you could only get from a gangbang between a man from the valleys of wales, a cockney from london and brian blessed.
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sam_levi_11 wrote:i have the accent you could only get from a gangbang between a man from the valleys of wales, a cockney from london and brian blessed.

D'you shout a lot, is it?

Did you see him on Have I Got News For You last year? He was fucking hilarious.
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Brian Bloody Who?
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Genghis Khant wrote:
sam_levi_11 wrote:i have the accent you could only get from a gangbang between a man from the valleys of wales, a cockney from london and brian blessed.

D'you shout a lot, is it?

Did you see him on Have I Got News For You last year? He was fucking hilarious.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1gwVIhJ8II
Nah just my natural voice is loud. So i make a concious effort to be quiet.
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jonesthecurl wrote:Brian Bloody Who?

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Worst British accent was Kevin Costner as Robin Hood. So bad he didn't even attempt it in the movie. Crash Davis in tights.
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No. Still and always Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins.
Made even worse by the smirk that he obviously thought all we "cockerneys" wear all the time.
Almost as bad was the the guy who played Daphne's brother in Frasier. Because she did a Manchester accent. He did, um, the bastard child of Dick Van Dyke and Princess Di.
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