Why can people from the UK do American accents perfectly yet Americans sound like they're having some sort of cockney stroke when try an English accent?
I can sort of do one.
>>63286221
Because nobody gives a fuck about England, there is no point in trying to do a British accent seriously.
>mfw the only thing I can name with a northern accent is The Cat in The Hat and Frasier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1vUrHKvH3o
>>63286221
It's funny that you think their American accents are passable. Where are you from?
>>63286221
To sound like an american isn't hard. You just have to be really fat or talk like a retard that has a dick in his mouth.
![Its.Always.Sunny.in.Philadelphia.S09E01.720p.HDTV.x264-EVOLVE.mkv_snapshot_20.18_[2013.09.05_00.42.07].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/jLMfSwI.jpg "Its.Always.Sunny.in.Philadelphia.S09E01.720p.HDTV.x264-EVOLVE.mkv_snapshot_20.18_[2013.09.05_00.42.07].jpg")
Clip related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtxwmCOCtyY
>>63286311
the northern woman in frasier was a british actress
>>63286221
Bongs listen to Americans talk on American TV and in movies all the time. Americans watching UK media is less common.
>>63286221
>house
>perfect american accent
o i am laffin
>>63286539
Yeah, just pronounce every R really loudly and make your voice proper high and squeaky and you've got it down.
>>63287547
It's just the sort of accent you can't do unless you grow up with it, trust me, Essex people can't do geordi accents and liverpool people can't do Black country accents
>>63286221
UK accents are fake anyway.
Can anyone post a good example of an American acting as a British character?
Pic related for a non-American attempting an American accent.
>>63287914
Lake Bell
Robert Downey Jr
Meryl in The Iron Lady
>>63286617
he did have it good in his head though.
>Colin Farrell is Irish yet does an amazing Joisey accent in Phone Booth and a gruff, southern-y accent in True Detective
>Tim Roth is British yet does an amazing American accent in Reservoir Dogs
How is this possible?
Yfw Christian bale is English
>>63286296
>British accent
Amerifats are clueless
>>63288123
He's welsh.
british accents are harder to do, all yanks sound the same
>>63288121
>Colin Farrell
>doing an accent apart from Irish
>>63286221
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT0jVul9SiA
>British actor playing American
Says the lines but in an American accent
>American actor playing British
AWWWW COR BLOIMY MOITE
>>63288449
>Bale was born in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, the son of English parents, Jenny (née James), a circus performer, and David Bale, a South African-born entrepreneur, commercial pilot and talent manager.[5][6][7] Bale has three sisters.[8] He has stated, "I was born in Wales but I'm not Welsh – I'm English".[2]
>>63288121
>southern in TD
>california
u wut
>>63288637
Pembrokeshire is in Wales mate.
Niles from The Nanny is American and his English accent is perfect, better than Houses American accent.
>>63288684
Welsh are basically English
>>63286221
Exposure. British people are exposed to American accents far more than vice-versa.
>>63286296
lol this
>>63288588
>American actor playing British
COOOOOOORRRRRR BLOIIMEEE GUVNA OII CLOIMED THE APPLES AND PEARS TADAY AND SLIPPED ON ME KNACKERSS COBBLA
FISH AND CHIPS ME OLD SOOT
>>63286221
Same reason most people can't do a good Boston accent. British accents are a hodgepodge of tiny region specific accents like that. But the general "American accent" is the same one you hear in nearly every movie or tv show.
Their accent is a clusterfuck and ours is pure.
>>63286296
britkek here, basically this
>>63288734
I know, don't say that to them though.
>>63288763
>yeehaw southern is the same as bawwstan is the same as wisconsin is the same as west coast is the same as new york
nice baits famalam
>>63288800
Nice false flag
I miss the old weird Brit accents they used to do in Hollywood back in the Golden Age
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWKBHzxDu20
>>63288804
I said the general american accent, not southern or new york accents. Those are the retarded regional accents which brits can't do any better than anyone else. (See: That Doctor Who episode with the daleks in New York)
Because all you have to do is actually pronounce things correctly and not drop letters and add Rs to the end of words.
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ELLO MARY BOBBINS
>>63288894
>their accent is a clusterfuck and ours is pure
yeah, no.
>>63288927
OI OI OIVE BEEN DAN THEE OLE CHIMNEE AINT I ME OLD COBBER
>>63288800
>>63288839
British people don't care about doing correct accents, that's why people from different parts of the country can barely understand each other.
You'd have a better chance trying to communicate with the aliens from Close Encounters of the Third Kind than talking to someone from Northumbria
>>63288894
>the daleks in New York
jesus christ
please tell me the daleks had New York accents
>>63288975
No I wouldn't, I can understand any english accent perfectly well thanks.
>>63288874
It's called a Mid-Atlantic accent, which is supposed to be intelligible to both Americans and British.
Americans ain't got no accent
>>63289017
It's a bit like ehat we have in England, RP or recieved pronunciation is used on news and TV so everyone can understand it, but people retain regional accents in personal conversation.
>>63289004
>woah woah watch where you're goin' I'm exterminatin' over here
>>63289008
Prove it
>>63288673
Are you a retard? Ray clearly isn't from California
>>63288123
His general speaking accent is that sort of "spent too much time in America" accent, he doesn't sound purely English (or Welsh)
>>63288498
>all yanks sound the same
Wew lad, my state is the size of your country and I can distinguish two separate accents among just the people here.
>>63289072
EEYY IM EXTOIMINATIN HEE-YA WHAD DA FUCK YA TINK YA DOO-EN?
>>63286311
>>63287344
>>63287744
>>63288500
>>63288588
>>63288800
I haven't seen American Psycho since it came out, but I seem to remember Bale lisping a bit as Patrick Bateman. Can anyone confirm?Checked.
>>63289086
I speak one of them.
>>63287914
Alexis Denisof in Buffy and Angel is pretty much the best. Hearing his real accent is bizarre.
Americans don't have accents. They have the most neutral voice of the English language.
They may seem like they have accents when viewed from the perspective of Brits, but that's like saying that 10 is a negative number compared to 20
British brain size is bigger than american brain size
>>63289095
>admitting to being from Michigan
my condolences
Brits can only do the neutral american accent that no one actually has. They can't do southern, boston, new york, louisianan, jersey, minnesota, etc.
>>63289200
But even the standard 'neutral' US accent doesn't pronounce words properly, 'preddy' instead of pretty etc. RP is the most neutral, 'correct' English accent if you can call it that.
>>63289334
Pronouncing letters softly in certain words is not "incorrect"
>>63289200
>being this wrong
Don't conflate mid-west accents with all of America. There are lots of regional dialects in the US.
Cajun, Boston, Jersey, Southern, Minnesota, etc.
>tfw Minnesota accent is sexiest
>"goin ta a hackey tournament, donchaknow?"
>>63289385
Or "improper" rather
>>63287956
Yep, Lake Bell was superb in Man Up
>>63289385
Pronouncing the letter T as a D is very much incorrect.
British actors have spent their whole lives doing American impressions.
>>63289460
It's not pronounced as D. Soft T can sound like D.
![Vivien_Leigh_Gone_Wind_Restored[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/LFniA8U.jpg "Vivien_Leigh_Gone_Wind_Restored[1].jpg")
>>63289225
>They can't do southern
>>63289460
Also neutral American accents don't prounce it as "preddy" anyway.
James Marsters does a good english accent 95% of the time
>>63289334
I never hear 'preddy' it's always 'pritty' where I live. Still incorrect I guess.
>>63288226
>I can classify a huge landmass' accent but you're ignorant if you do it to my island
Die of cancer
>>63287787
To be fair, can anyone other than geordies do a geordie accent?
>>63289498
maybe they could back in the day, but watch cold mountain. Jude law and the other brits in that movie sound awful
>>63286221
Because Amerilards are uneducated, untalented chimps.
>>63288975
Haha. Ye daft cunt.
What about Leo in Blood Diamond?
What accent would you call this:
On = Awn
Wash = worsh
Milk = melk
Water = wurddur or worder
I associate it with Glen Burnie, MD
>>63289578
I disagree
>>63289578
>you have to be educated to impersonate a britbong.
>>63289600
That was a south african accent and he didnt really pull it off well
>>63289506
Is marsters american?
>>63289200
I'm surprised it took this long into the thread someone before mentioned Americans having a neutral accent
Well meme'd
>>63289217
>being one state off
>>63289759
except his whole point was that being one state off is like being a whole country off
>>63289614
As a Brit I would say that sounds either West Country or East Anglia when I say those words in my head. The kind of accent you might put on if you were doing a generic pirate or farmer voice.
>>63286296
Except for every period film in existence which is set before 1900.
>>63289133
Impressive, very nice.
>>63289334
There is no such thing as a "correct" accent.
Even pronunciations vary across regions of the same language. As long as meaning is not lost in the utterance, pronunciation is irrelevant.
>>63289385
>>63289460
You guys are confusing three distinct phonemes as being the same.
The 'tt' sound in "pretty" is neither a voiced alveolar stop (the [d] sound) or a voiceless alveolar stop (the [t] sound), but a voiceless alveolar flap or tap [ɾ] in which the tip of the tongue very briefly touches the back of the frontal incisor ridge (the "alveolar ridge") making a distinct sound that sounds very similar to both [t] and [d] and in English all 3 can be allophones of each other, meaning that the sounds can be switched without any meaning lost between pronunciations of words.
The tap is common in English with words that are double-'t's (i.e. 'pretty' and 'better').
tl;dr There is no correct pronunciation so long as meaning is maintained in the exchange.
>>63290000
>>63289759
Jackie Chan is cool.
its easy to go down the ladder of stupidity but impossible to go up
>>63289866
What?
>>63290040
>There is no such thing as a "correct" accent.
Except for Received Pronunciation, of course.
>>63290000
Don't mind the file name fellas
Apparently that chick from Bridget Jones isn't English.
Jamie Bamber in Battlestar Galactica did an OK yank accent.
>ctrl+f andrew lincoln
>no results
the fuck guys
>>63291708
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>>63288874
>Why are you wearing women's clothes?
>Because I just went GAY all of a sudden.
kek
Because is easier to undo an accent than imitade one
>>63291708
How did he master it anyway?
>>63289133
Check'd
>>63286221
>Why can people from the UK do American accents perfectly
They can't....they sound like stroke victims.
>>63289551
I'm from only a few miles south of Newcastle and I struggle to even understand some geordies
My uncle honestly sounds more foreign than english
>>63290075
He's a communist party shill who put his own son in jail for smoking a little pot. Everyone in China hates his guts.
>>63289200
American English is literally the most warped and mutated English dialect there is. If there was a "most correct accent" (which there isn't) it definitely wouldn't be American English.
>>63289166
James Marsters wasn't bad either.
>>63286221
Americans are stupid.
It's easier for a clever person to pretend to be retarded than the other way round.
American actors primarily hear English accents in period films, plays and from News presenters, none of those people actually sound like average English people, and in the case of plays usually aren't real English people, just other american actors doing bad accents.
English TV doesn't appeal to Americans because the shows only run a handful of seasons at six episodes a piece which is the polar opposite of how it's done in the states. They just don't hear enough of a natural English speaking voice to pick up on it.
Angelina Jolie gave a decent stab in TR. It really depends on the actor and how good they are, when done badly it's pretty fucking awful to a native, and I imagine the opposite is true. I can always tell particularly in video games when it's an American actor doing an English accent, I dunno if there's a voice coach technique they all get but it sounds distinct and like no accent you'd get in Britain.
>>63286221
>Why can people from the UK do American accents perfectly..
Because your actors need to be marketable to U.S. audiences, while ours don't have to care about the British market.
American actors don't have to waste their time learning foreign dialects to land roles and please an audience, as our nation is large enough to support a healthy film industry.
British actors, on the other hand, had better be able to do a good U.S. accent if they want to actually have a film career beyond their little island.
>>63287914
Sean Astin playing Samwise Gamgee
>>63287639
When Hugh was cast as House they thought he was actually American. Everyone knows this, Anon.
Can Amerilards tell the difference between an Australian accent and a British one? I went over to the states as an Ausfag and got called English like 10 fucking times.
>>63286221
Because American English is English that's more natural
Thus it's easier to do an American accent
>>63286311
All I hear is Austin Powers
>>63293243
btfo
>>63291708
I'm not from Georgia but none of the people I've spoken to from Georgia sounded like him, they had rather distinct accents too. And wasn't Rick supposed to be from a relatively small townthat was also inexplicably only 2 hours by horseback away from Atlanta?
Anyway, the gov did a decent job with his accent.
And regarding the OP, I have heard a lot of very awkward American accents. Scottish actors seem to have a very hard time with it, Ewan McGregor giving the most botched accent I've ever heard. Fassbender sucks at American accents too but people on here fanboy him too much.
>>63293243
>>63294014
The actual answer is "Because all our best actors are already british so we don't need to have anyone pretend".
>>63292051
Mackem cunt?
>>63293243
>Because your actors need to be marketable to U.S. audiences, while ours don't have to care about the British market.
Does a Gibraltarian accent count as an English one? Because it is fucking hilarious:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcWhc6UF75Q
>>63286221
EES A BEET ARD TO TALK LIKE THE QUEEN M8, BEET TO BUSY LETTIN THE PAKI SHAG ME WIFE WHILE I RETURN ME BUTTA KNIFES AND KNAB SOME CHOCOLATE GLOOBAHNAUGHTS
