Why are so many young Americans adopting fake British accents?

Re:Why are so many young Americans adopting fake British acc... by ndsipa_pomu on Monday May 15, 2023 @07:40AM (#35946609)

Reminds me of going into a shop while visiting the U.S. and trying to buy some batteries. The employee struggled with my english accent, so I had to try to explain what batteries where. He eventually understood and exclaimed "oh, badderies!".

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Re:Why are so many young Americans adopting fake British acc... by t-3 on Monday May 15, 2023 @09:40AM (#35947986)

I highly doubt the t's were the issue. Different stress, more pronounced articulation/less syllable smoothing, and vowel pronunciation are more likely culprits. It's very hard for the speaker to hear, but very noticeable to everyone else (seen this many times trying to get people to pronounce Finnish words like sauna or Helsinki correctly, they can't hear the difference).

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Re:Why are so many young Americans adopting fake British acc... by yamtaddle on Monday May 15, 2023 @10:17AM (#35948527)

I've got a friend with a story from his high school job at a retail store, about his having to translate for the other workers so they could figure out WTF this British guy was asking for.

"Batcheries"

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