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saint:
I still seem to have missed my answer. Perhaps I'll try again. How many of each was it?


--- Quote from: saint on June 08, 2007, 02:17:31 pm ---I seem to have missed my answer -- trying again.


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--- Quote from: shorthair on June 07, 2007, 07:41:44 pm ---saint: mine. All these statements are based on my own data accumulation, some of which is from primary and secondary sources, and some of which is from personal observation.

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So you've interviewed or known or known of.... how many American actors who've tried to speak with a British accent, and how many English actors who've tried to speak with an American accent?

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shorthair:
None. I'm just going by what I've seen and correlating it with the possibility that their tongue is more complex than your average (and maybe other) American one(s).

horseboy:

--- Quote from: shorthair on June 08, 2007, 06:18:29 pm ---horseboy: I'm too emotionally invested in what I think I know.

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fixt

CheffoJeffo:

--- Quote from: shorthair on June 08, 2007, 09:56:11 pm ---None. I'm just going by what I've seen and correlating it with the possibility that their tongue is more complex than your average (and maybe other) American one(s).

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IMPO, a more plausible explanation is that the 'American' accent is more widely known in the rest of the world than other accents are known in the US. A guess, but a good guess, I think.

Cheers

boykster:

--- Quote from: CheffoJeffo on June 09, 2007, 08:47:44 am ---
--- Quote from: shorthair on June 08, 2007, 09:56:11 pm ---None. I'm just going by what I've seen and correlating it with the possibility that their tongue is more complex than your average (and maybe other) American one(s).

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IMPO, a more plausible explanation is that the 'American' accent is more widely known in the rest of the world than other accents are known in the US. A guess, but a good guess, I think.

Cheers

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I would take an even more pragmatic stance and assert that there is WAY MORE financial incentive for foreign actors to conform to american dialect to land big $$ roles in Hollywood, whereas while both the UK and OZ have film industries, the financial draw/incentive just isn't as big as it is in Hollywood.  I don't remember the last time I heard an aspiring starlet head to the bus station saying she was "...moving to Leeds to become a big star...."

It's an economy of scale....I doubt that it's "harder" for either to adapt.  Just different. 

Shorthair ->  :tool:

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