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Re:Why are so many young Americans adopting fake British acc... by crazygringo on Monday May 15, 2023 @10:36AM (#35948834)
On the one hand they do, as they certainly don't mean Cockney or Essex or Manchester.

But on the other hand they don't, because true RP is generally far too pretentious. Even in movies, you see it mainly only in villains and historical dramas, or for comedic effect.

Most people are generally referring to a kind of middle-class London accent. Like Jude Law for example. Neither "posh" nor "regional" nor "lower class" nor "multicultural" (quotes for irony where necessary, obviously London is a region). I'm not sure what the name for that is though?

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Re:Why are so many young Americans adopting fake British acc... by mjbeswick on Monday May 15, 2023 @11:02AM (#35949307)
The Surrey accent is close what most people most people consider middle class / standard English which is close to received pronunciation, but more natural sounding. In other areas other the country it's considered posh!?
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Re:Why are so many young Americans adopting fake British acc... by globalise83 on Monday May 15, 2023 @06:48PM (#35955562)
Mummy Pig accent? Referring of course to Peppa Pig
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Re:Why are so many young Americans adopting fake British acc... by cjrp on Monday May 15, 2023 @11:51AM (#35950227)
Home Counties accent perhaps.
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Re:Why are so many young Americans adopting fake British acc... by retrac on Monday May 15, 2023 @11:54AM (#35950278)
Estuary English [1] -- the English spoken around the Thames estuary. It has, arguably, been the "standard" non-posh British dialect for a while.

As a North American, I find it one of the harder accents to understand. It has undergone a lot of interesting sound changes in recent decades, not shared by many other dialects. Likely a result of dialect flattening from 20th century population movements. "Football" -> [ˈfʊʔbɔo] (sounds like "fuh-baoh" to me) or "bottle" -> ['bɒʔo] {"bah-oh"?) or "Tuesday" -> [tʃuːz.deɪ] ("choose day").

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estuary_English

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Re:Why are so many young Americans adopting fake British acc... by cjrp on Monday May 15, 2023 @12:21PM (#35950688)
“Bottle of water” is one that my French colleague used to make fun of. Ends up something like “boh-ooh a wa-uh”.
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Re:Why are so many young Americans adopting fake British acc... by amiga386 on Monday May 15, 2023 @12:37PM (#35950933)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKRuG4oIu_o

"The water in Maiorca doesn't taste like what it ought to"

"THE WARTER IN MAJORKER DUNT TASTE LOIK WORRIT ORTER"

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