Apart from films about pirates, of course.
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When people want to sound dumb and/or racist they use my regional accent!
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The pros use a Mid-Atlantic accent when things get tough.
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How about faking German?
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Mind the gap.
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Sorry, my front teeth have always looked like that. I blame the NHS.
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I mean, he’s probably toning it down, but Phil Harding!
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I’ve used the fake British accent for fun. Mostly these days, though, I’ll slip into a Maine dialect when I want to “cope” with reality. It’s a wicked pissah.
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When i was living and working in Northern England, if i didn’t put on the accent, my coworkers had trouble understanding me - for years after, I had a tendency to put it on whenever I talked to a Brit
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Well, I guess it’s a huge improvement on action movies where the bad guy is always British.
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To be fair, a number of well-known pirates, Edward Teach in particular, were West Country, Bristol in particular, because it was a major port. John Cabot, the first modern individual to sail to North America sailed from Bristol, but its almost certain he knew the continent was there because he talked to Bristol fishermen who were fishing off Newfoundland Grand Banks, and going after Spanish ships loaded with South American gold was a far more lucrative enterprise than cod.
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I find it really hard to live in a place or around people for any meaningful length of time and not absorb a little of their accent.
I’ve always been a little embarrassed by it because it is so cringe when salespeople do it but then again it definitely makes me a better singer.
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A “British” Accent, eh?
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As a Brit I can confirm that all of us are villains. MWHAHAHAHAHAHaaaaaaaaaa!
Edit:
Well, of course, Jesus was English on his father’s side.
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I grew up in Britain, and this isn’t weird: British people fake British accents all the time. If I wanted to be crass I would use a heavy London (not Cockney) accent. If I wanted to be playful I might use a West Country or Welsh accent. If I was playfully threatening violence I’d use a Scottish accent.
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There are more English accents in Britain then in the rest of the world.
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I wonder. I presume that everywhere has loads of accents; and that locals can spot someone from the next county by their specific accent. We only hear a limited number of accents in the media; like Spanish characters generally talking with a Barcelona accent.
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Like the Welsh and Australian accent, it doesn’t really work with death metal.
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True enough. Every day for me is “Talk-like-a-Pirate” day.
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He probably told people “Hello, I’m Blackbeard.”, and then killed them while they were still boggling over the accent. (And the smoldering slow matches.)
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