[ SECRET POST #4288 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4288 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

Can only speak from my personal experience that I have extreme trouble watching "Americans" on British shows simply because it always takes me FOREVER to realize that the character is supposed to be American because the accents can be super far off. I'll be there trying to figure out why someone is slurring their words or overemphasizing 'r's, and then finaly twig that, oh, okay, they're meant to be American. (It's particularly funny when they'll go all out trying to put in a post-vocalic 'r', and then spoil it because the writers have them saying 'clark' instead of 'clerk' or 'plait' instad of 'braid').
I have equal trouble watching "British" characters on American shows who often just show a crigneworthy case of "not doing the research" or just being lazy stereotypes and I really, really, really wish our entertainment were better than that. Or believed that we, as viewers, could appreciate something better than that. Not to mention the actors are usually even WORSE at doing an "English" accent, because they mostly just try to use RP and imagine that it must come with a complicated vocabulary.
And sometimes, bafflingly, it doens't even help when the actors involved ARE from the country in question. Never forget my bafflement when Daphne on Frasier gets all flattered that Niles is "using her language" because he says "bumbershoot" for umbrella. It's like ... no, no, just because it sounds quaint and corny doesn't mean it's British English.

[(Anonymous)]

That's really interesting about the accents. Never really thought about it but yeah I can see how the faked American accent actually sounds like a weird composite and not at all real lol. I guess I'm so used to it being a kind of shorthand for 'this character is an American '. Now I think about it, our TV really needs to try harder.

Writers for anything getting American/British terms mixed up pissed me off. It's just sheer bloody laziness. Make some fecking effort.

Oh God. Wow. I don’t remember that episode of Frasier but Jesus Christ. 'Bumbershoot'? That's annoying and hilarious at the same time lmao.

[(Anonymous)]

It was in "My Coffee with Niles". (and I spent way too long trying to figure that out.)