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In reply to the discussion: Weird Q Did you ever know anyone who faked an accent in real life? [View all]Codeine
(25,586 posts)40. A customer of mine assumed an Irish accent after spending two weeks
visiting her boyfriend there. It was a god-awful, Irish-Spring-meets-Lucky-Charms-commercial kind of accent, and she claimed "I just picked it up from being there a while."
Two goddamned weeks. And she kept that shit up for at least two years.
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bettyellen
May 2014
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It'll come to you, probably in the middle of Game of Thrones or something....
bettyellen
May 2014
#2
Wow, a self admitted accent faker! But you were just being weird, so that is cool.
bettyellen
May 2014
#6
Leave that mickey alone! *cries* But imagine doing it day in day out? HTF do people keep a
bettyellen
May 2014
#12
Oooh, any interesting fake life livers you could tell me about? I was wondering if you had to be a
bettyellen
May 2014
#11
I heard somebody deliver a paper at a conference once in an obviously phony British accent
struggle4progress
May 2014
#13
I ran into this guy from Ireland, and within two minutes we had discovered his grand uncle had been
bettyellen
May 2014
#33
Ha ha, it was a young woman from out of town, trying to get her first job. I guess she felt she
bettyellen
May 2014
#23
Wow, thanks- that is hilarious! I would have probably been wooed by a whole lot of Monty Python
bettyellen
May 2014
#27
I love those accents, Iowa, Nebraska I almost here a buzz in them compared to East coast
bettyellen
May 2014
#39
My accent sometimes changes depending on how tired I am and who I'm talking to or listening to.
haele
May 2014
#26
Yes, I did it on a Canadian VIA trip when I didn't want anybody to think
sinkingfeeling
May 2014
#28
My mom, my wife, and one of our kids simply absorb the accent of whatever environment they are in.
hunter
May 2014
#30
LOL, we enlisted every Brit we could to call the fake Brit receptionist, then moved on to faking it
bettyellen
May 2014
#43
Well, you expect actors and public speakers to get voice coaching. People to pretend they are from
bettyellen
May 2014
#46
Oh god, what an asshole. Fake Irish and looking for babes with drinking problems to boot.
bettyellen
May 2014
#47
I know a woman like that! She lives with my cousin. The strangest thing is we all know
mackerel
May 2014
#54
Yes, she has convinced herself and my cousin is an alcoholic so it's easy for him to ignore it.
mackerel
May 2014
#60
Oh wow. The missing stair no one talks about, ha ha. At least it sounds harmless, LOL.
bettyellen
May 2014
#61