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Friends- British accent
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RE: Friends- British accent
(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'.

Boru

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.

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
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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Friends- British accent - by WinterHold - November 29, 2019 at 3:06 am
RE: Friends- British accent - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - November 29, 2019 at 6:09 am
RE: Friends- British accent - by BrokenQuill92 - November 29, 2019 at 7:14 am
RE: Friends- British accent - by Gawdzilla Sama - November 29, 2019 at 7:41 am
RE: Friends- British accent - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - November 29, 2019 at 8:40 am
RE: Friends- British accent - by WinterHold - November 29, 2019 at 1:25 pm
RE: Friends- British accent - by The Valkyrie - November 29, 2019 at 1:59 pm
RE: Friends- British accent - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - November 29, 2019 at 2:01 pm
RE: Friends- British accent - by The Valkyrie - November 29, 2019 at 2:22 pm
RE: Friends- British accent - by WinterHold - November 30, 2019 at 4:51 am
RE: Friends- British accent - by Gawdzilla Sama - November 29, 2019 at 2:59 pm
RE: Friends- British accent - by The Valkyrie - November 29, 2019 at 3:12 pm
RE: Friends- British accent - by Anomalocaris - November 30, 2019 at 4:50 am
RE: Friends- British accent - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - November 30, 2019 at 6:30 am
RE: Friends- British accent - by Gawdzilla Sama - November 29, 2019 at 9:09 am
RE: Friends- British accent - by arewethereyet - November 29, 2019 at 3:09 pm
RE: Friends- British accent - by Anomalocaris - November 30, 2019 at 4:52 am
RE: Friends- British accent - by Peebo-Thuhlu - November 29, 2019 at 12:45 pm
RE: Friends- British accent - by LastPoet - November 29, 2019 at 1:02 pm
RE: Friends- British accent - by Duty - November 29, 2019 at 1:09 pm
RE: Friends- British accent - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - November 29, 2019 at 1:41 pm
RE: Friends- British accent - by WinterHold - November 29, 2019 at 2:17 pm
RE: Friends- British accent - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - November 29, 2019 at 2:39 pm
RE: Friends- British accent - by WinterHold - November 30, 2019 at 5:04 am
RE: Friends- British accent - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - November 30, 2019 at 5:50 am
RE: Friends- British accent - by Anomalocaris - November 30, 2019 at 5:50 am
RE: Friends- British accent - by Duty - November 29, 2019 at 3:09 pm
RE: Friends- British accent - by Gawdzilla Sama - November 29, 2019 at 5:54 pm
RE: Friends- British accent - by SteelCurtain - November 30, 2019 at 12:15 am
RE: Friends- British accent - by ThinkingIsThinking - November 30, 2019 at 8:16 am
RE: Friends- British accent - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - November 30, 2019 at 8:30 am
RE: Friends- British accent - by ThinkingIsThinking - November 30, 2019 at 8:31 am
RE: Friends- British accent - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - November 30, 2019 at 8:36 am
RE: Friends- British accent - by ThinkingIsThinking - November 30, 2019 at 8:38 am
RE: Friends- British accent - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - November 30, 2019 at 8:42 am
RE: Friends- British accent - by ThinkingIsThinking - December 1, 2019 at 8:56 am
RE: Friends- British accent - by brewer - December 1, 2019 at 9:50 am

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