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Re:Why are so many young Americans adopting fake British acc... by dctoedt on Monday May 15, 2023 @11:02AM (#35949319)
> I think the average American doesn't / can't distinguish Michael Caine's Cockney accent and David Attenborough's RP.

You really think so? Maybe it's just me, but I can't imagine how anyone could mistake the two. (Possibly different people have different ears for accents.)

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Re:Why are so many young Americans adopting fake British acc... by kbp on Monday May 15, 2023 @11:52AM (#35950249)
I can hear them and tell that they're different accents, but I don't really distinguish them, I would call them both "British" and I wouldn't know which one's more posh.
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Re:Why are so many young Americans adopting fake British acc... by jrgoff on Monday May 15, 2023 @11:55AM (#35950295)
I think most of us just don't have a need to distinguish them, they go into the "English accent" bucket without further categorization.
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Re:Why are so many young Americans adopting fake British acc... by SketchySeaBeast on Monday May 15, 2023 @01:00PM (#35951217)
The two accents are different, but they don't play to the ear as upper and lower class.
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