Please listen to Leo DiCaprio's accent in "Blood Diamond" (link) and tell me

[skipos]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo1ms--2UQs

what kind of accent is he going for? :shrug:

[u4ic]

1. South African n/t

[skipos]

2. That's what I thought, but does it sound right to you?

His accent sounds bad to me, but I admit there are probably many dialects I have never heard, and maybe he is going for one of those.

[ceile]

4. I think specifically, his character is Rhodesian.

Not sure if that makes a difference....

[u4ic]

7. I used to know a woman from Zimbabwe

Hers leaned a bit more toward English than his attempt.

[ceile]

3. S. African.

And from the few I've heard, he seems to have it down pretty good.

[Lautremont]

5. His character in the movie is, as he says, "from Rhodesia."

So withing the larger framework of Afrikaaner accents, the might be some regional variations.

[Kutjara]

6. It's a fairly decent stab at a white Southern African accent. n/t

[Patiod]

8. There's a whole continuum of S. African accents

Some more English, some more Africaans.

Tough to pin down just one.