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Re:Everyone Has an Accent by tropo on Monday July 16, 2018 @10:45PM (#17546904)
We do this by consensus, instinctively choosing whatever is most typical for the powerful, or perhaps a slightly exaggerated version of that.

So: doctors, lawyers, politicians, rich people, random TV personalities, CEOs, generals...

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Re:Everyone Has an Accent by frobozz on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @12:42AM (#17547393)
So the same accent as Malcolm Turnbull, Jacinta Ardern, The Queen, Donald Trump, Leo Varadkar, my Polish GP, my Italian dentist, Elon Musk, Alan Sugar and Duncan Bannatyne.

I'm not sure that works.

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