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Bagpiper Kwisatz Haderach Since: Mar, 2012
Kwisatz Haderach
Jul 14th 2014 at 3:30:11 AM •••

Do Canadian actors playing American characters (and vice versa) REALLY count as Fake American? The accents are identical in most cases.

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LogoP Since: May, 2013
Jul 14th 2014 at 3:49:48 AM •••

I'd say yes. The accents might be very similar but the nationalities are still different.

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SeptimusHeap MOD (Edited uphill both ways)
Jul 14th 2014 at 3:58:41 AM •••

Plus, from what I get from online sources there are actually recognizable differences between both accents in vowels and the like.

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Elanchana Hi I'm Ela Since: Aug, 2012
Hi I'm Ela
Sep 11th 2012 at 11:18:51 PM •••

Shouldn't there be something in this article about the dead giveaway of "extra" Rs? British people, along with other people with non-rhotic accents, when given two words without a consonant break (such as "sofa arm"), will insert an R in the middle (sounding like "sofar arm"). I don't think there's any American accent that does this, so when I hear someone say an extra R, I can immediately tell that that person is faking their accent. Worth mentioning? (it's like the "bloody hell" part of the British Accent article)

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serizawa3000 Since: Sep, 2010
Jun 9th 2012 at 1:41:01 PM •••

Idris Elba's accent in Prometheus... It's convincing, but what is it?

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