or something like that ... maybe I read it wrong
I'll let you decide (bizzarre). Let's hope it's better than Dick-Van-Dyke's accent in Mary Poppins !
Cockneys & West Country folk are Americans with strokes
by Simon 7 Replies latest social humour
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Sargon
Interesting.... one could conclude that Brits are just brain-damaged Yanks.
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RunningMan
This leads to all sorts of speculation. If an American becomes brain damaged, he becomes English. If his brain is totally removed, what happens? (I am looking for suggestions)
Does he become President?
Or perhaps Southern?
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franklin J
...its the demons!!! She is demonized!
Ha haha!
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Double Edge
Let's hope it's better than Dick-Van-Dyke's accent in Mary Poppins !
LOL. You know, I always wondered what the English Julie Andrews thought. Did she try to help him with it, or just cringe when he gave his lines. It kind of reminds me of when I watch old WWII English pictures and they have some Brit playing a Yank, usually from Brooklyn or New Jersey... just sounds a little off... hehe... I guess we can't really hide who we are (accent wise).
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FlyingHighNow
Makes sense to me. Her speech was distorted by the stroke and so she accidently sounds cockney. It's a coincidence. The article mentions the Norwegian girl who sounded German after her accident. When I lived in North Georgia USA, I used to run into people with British accents. They were from the Southern Appalachian mountains. The thing is that they and their ancestors had lived up there with other decendants of Britian rather isolated for a couple of hundred years and the accent was not diluted by other accents from other ethnic groups.
Let's hope it's better than Dick-Van-Dyke's accent in Mary Poppins !
This makes me smile. That was a bad accent. Goofy really. But it's funny in reverse, too. I used to get a kick out of Benny Hill trying to portray southern or western USA Americans. He basically sounded British with a drawl or twang. You may not share my opinion of Benny Hill. I thought him adorable. I like Monty Python the best, though. When they dress in drag and portray British biddies it's just maybe the funniest thing on Earth. I liked it when the Pythons portrayed ladies reinacting the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Since you visited Florida, I wonder what you thought of the southern accents there.
Heather
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Faraon
Since you visited Florida, I wonder what you thought of the southern accents there
I wanted to buy something usually found at a pharmacy while visiting San Antonio Texas. I live near Chicago, so I am accustomed to the accent here. People kept directing me to go to a red store in the next block. It was not until my fourth walk up and down the block, with no store painted in red that I noticed a sign "Red Star"
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Robert_V_Frazier
Since you visited Florida, I wonder what you thought of the southern accents there
Southern accents in Florida?? No such animal. The most common accent here is New York\New Jersey. Followed by generic above-the-Mason-Dixon-line American.
You have to go north from Florida to get to the South.
Robert V Frazier