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Why is it so hard for yankees to do a Southern accent?
Posted on 3/4/17 at 10:41 pm
Posted on 3/4/17 at 10:41 pm
Maybe a handful of outsiders I've ever seen can pull off a convincing one.
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Posted on 3/4/17 at 10:43 pm to Masterag
Because there's like twenty different kinds.
It's not unlike asking some baw to speak like a Yankee - world isn't some tiny place contained to just a few parishes.
It's not unlike asking some baw to speak like a Yankee - world isn't some tiny place contained to just a few parishes.
Posted on 3/4/17 at 10:43 pm to Masterag
Some can, some can't
Meryl Streep's in Julia sucked but then she always sucks
Meryl Streep's in Julia sucked but then she always sucks
Posted on 3/4/17 at 10:46 pm to Masterag
When I was a kid I saw an old movie on TV and was surprised how well Joanne Woodward did a Southern accent
later I learned she was from Georgia and went to LSU
later I learned she was from Georgia and went to LSU
Posted on 3/4/17 at 10:49 pm to Masterag
Because its not how they naturally talk, and so when they try to pull it off, they force it and over compensate their enunciation and pronunciation.
Posted on 3/4/17 at 10:52 pm to eitek1
quote:Probably easier for him than an Italian-American from Brooklyn. If you listen closely you can hear how close some English and Southern accents are.
He's English and pulled it off
Posted on 3/4/17 at 10:56 pm to eitek1
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Probably the best southern accent I've seen anyone pull off was the character "Hoot" played by Eric Bana in Black Hawk Down. He's English and pulled it off.
Yeah for some reason the southern accent is easier to mimic for British actors. I recall seeing something that said we sound like they did a few centuries ago.
Posted on 3/4/17 at 10:59 pm to Masterag
quote:the Appalachian accent is probably the closest. They were isolated so long the accent survived w/minimal changes
I recall seeing something that said we sound like they did a few centuries ago
Posted on 3/4/17 at 11:00 pm to Masterag
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I recall seeing something that said we sound like they did a few centuries ago.
Your shite's fricked up, and you talk like f**.
Posted on 3/4/17 at 11:01 pm to eitek1
Yeah, I don't think that was very good.
I think Rick on TWD is good and the Jason Stackhouse from true blood are two really good examples, but they're from Australia and England.
I think Rick on TWD is good and the Jason Stackhouse from true blood are two really good examples, but they're from Australia and England.
Posted on 3/4/17 at 11:06 pm to BRgetthenet
Posted on 3/4/17 at 11:07 pm to Masterag
I'm fascinated by the concept of accents.
Posted on 3/4/17 at 11:11 pm to TheWalrus
Yeah. I hate that we feel we have to suppress ours in order to sound "educated" when I've met just as many idiots from anywhere else in the country.
Your educateness should be shown by your level of vocabulary and grammar, not the way you pronounce the words.
Your educateness should be shown by your level of vocabulary and grammar, not the way you pronounce the words.
Posted on 3/4/17 at 11:13 pm to eitek1
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He's English and pulled it off.
The southern accent is close to what Elizabethan English sounded like.
Posted on 3/4/17 at 11:33 pm to Masterag
quote:50 years ago Lenny Bruce did a routine saying Southerners were discriminated against because of their accents, and if Einstein had been from the South no one would have listened to him: "EE eekals amm cee squard..."
I hate that we feel we have to suppress ours in order to sound "educated"
Posted on 3/4/17 at 11:48 pm to Masterag
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Why is it so hard for yankees to do a Southern accent?
Mushmouth
Posted on 3/4/17 at 11:49 pm to Masterag
I'm from California
Posted on 3/4/17 at 11:57 pm to eitek1
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Eric Bana
He's actually Australian, which makes it more impressive.
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