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Re: Of accents & dialects

From:Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...>
Date:Wednesday, October 29, 2008, 22:40
I watched a movie years ago, I wish I could remember the name, where the lead
was a Brit actor (a fact I didn't know at the beginning of the movie). He had a
flawless American accent UNTIL he said the name of a church, "St. Thomas",
rendering it "Sen Thomas". I immediately knew he was a Brit, because Americans,
regardless of regional dialect, never drop the "t" at the end of "saint" in a
name, and would never render "saint" to rhyme with "zen".

--gary

--- On Wed, 10/29/08, Eldin Raigmore <eldin_raigmore@...> wrote:

> From: Eldin Raigmore <eldin_raigmore@...> > Subject: Re: Of accents & dialects > To: CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu > Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2008, 11:30 AM > I've noticed that British actors playing American > characters in American shows > usually have quite good American accents; but British > actors playing American > characters in British shows frequently have very bad > "American" accents. > > From what I've read, American actors playing British > characters in American > shows frequently have very bad "British" accents. > > Do American actors playing British characters in British > shows, usually have > good British accents? Or is this situation asymmetrical?

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