'War Stories'
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There are actually a lot of Brits (and Irish) that do great American accents.
Glenn Quinn.
And here I thought Minnie Driver was doing an atrocious Brit accent on Will and Grace a few weeks back. Fake or not, it was painful to listen to and sounded very affected.
But JM's UK accent is better than his US one. What the hell is that?
Bad American accents tend to have too much R.
Exactly my point.
"Ah'm a friend of Xanderrrr's, here."
I'm with ita. No offense to the Californians on the board, but some SoCal speak--the sorta mumbly bland type--bugs me after a while.
I haven't heard anyone speak like JM here yet. Perhaps I haven't been close enough to Modesto. But if a Brit spoke like that, I'd mock it as a terrible fake US accent.
Bad American accents tend to have too much R.
Heh. From where I'm sitting, so do good ones.
A long time ago I read an interview with Jackson Browne talking about the drawn-out "R" in the California accent. He pointed to the Beach Boys "California Girls" as an example: "Well East Coat gurrrrrlls are hip..." etc.
A lot of fake American accents sound way too flat to my ear. Also, a lot of people seem to be trying for "standard American" and end up with some weird amalgamation of regional accents that sounds nothing like how anyone actually talks. (I just saw some example of this that was really annoying me, but now I can't remember where.)