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Demoiselle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-17-10 12:59 PM
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35. Really GOOD British and Australian actors do really good American accents.
Really good American actors do really good British accents.
I give you Russell Crowe and Renee Zellweger, for example.
I've heard some pretty poor "American" accents coming out of 3rd level British actors on BBC shows.

It's all about talent and part of talent is having an ear.

And there may be another factor...George Bernard Shaw tells us through Henry Higgins that the British have been very sensitive to their own regional and class accents because they reflect class. There have always been Eliza Doolittles "passing" as upper class types. "The moment he speaks he makes some other Englishman despise him...."
That'll tune your ear up pretty quickly in a class-driven society.
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