Re: Of accents & dialects

Don't know of a direct answer to this question. But I recall listening to an
audiobook recently (I received it as a promotional copy from the publisher --
the title escapes me right now.) The story took place in San Diego, and most of
the characters were male. Yet, the voice-actor was a British female. For the
most part, she didn't even *try* to imitate an American accent when speaking
the dialogue. And when she did, what came through sounded like an attempt to
fake a Southern drawl, which is out of place for California.
 
For the gender question, her voice was slowed down on the recording to lower the
pitch so that she sounded more male. But that was even more obvious than the
faked accents -- very distracting.
> Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:30:42 -0400> From: eldin_raigmore@YAHOO.COM> Subject:
> Re: Of accents & dialects> To: CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu> > 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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