(November 30, 2019 at 8:16 am)ThinkingIsThinking Wrote: 99.9% of Brits don't talk like that.
Like what? If you're referring to the woman in the video, feel free to round up.
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 Like what? If you're referring to the woman in the video, feel free to round up. Boru  (November 30, 2019 at 8:31 am)ThinkingIsThinking Wrote:(November 30, 2019 at 8:30 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Like what? If you're referring to the woman in the video, feel free to round up. Yeah, NO Brits talk like that. But USians tend to think of either RP or Cockney (sometimes Mayfair) when they think 'British accent'. Boru
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(November 30, 2019 at 8:36 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(November 30, 2019 at 8:31 am)ThinkingIsThinking Wrote: It seemed like a bad impression of the royals to me. Well, the reason I said '99.9%' instead of '100%' is that I was using the remaining 0.1% to refer to the upper-class Brits that the woman in the video is doing a bad impression of. (November 30, 2019 at 8:38 am)ThinkingIsThinking Wrote:(November 30, 2019 at 8:36 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Yeah, NO Brits talk like that. But USians tend to think of either RP or Cockney (sometimes Mayfair) when they think 'British accent'. But they don't speak like her. What you're saying is that 0.1% of Brits speak like her, and that's simply not true, any more than people from East London sound like Dick van Dyke. Boru
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