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   On 9/21/2021 6:31 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:   
   > BTR1701  wrote:   
   >> In article ,   
   >>   Wouter Valentijn  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Op 14-8-2021 om 00:41 schreef David:   
   >>>> "Barbie Blacksheep"  wrote in message   
   >>>> news:e9443527-b5ed-4d6c-b9e7-032e1ba76dcan@googlegroups.com...   
   >>>>   
   >>>> On Monday, 8 March 1999 at 08:00:00 UTC, SeanHarry wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>>>> OK, I'll bite (pun intended). Why is Dru's accent so deplorable to   
   >>>>>> British viewers? I'm curious...   
   >>   
   >>>>> It's deplorable because it's so bad. I would have voted it as the   
   >>>>> worst every interpretation of a foreign accent by an American actor   
   >>>>> (and Juliet Landau was brought up in Britain, so she should know   
   >>>>> better) but I've just heard David Boreanes's Irish accent, which is   
   >>>>> even worse.   
   >>   
   >   
   > Don’t forget they’ve lived all over the world and their initial accents   
   are   
   > centuries old.   
   >   
   >   
   >>>>> It would be a bit like all American characters on British TV going   
   >>>>> around wearing 10 gallon hats and saying 'Howdy Partner!'   
   >>   
   >>>> Why oh why don't these American companies just hire actors / actresses   
   >>>> who are from the specific British region they want the accent from ?   
   >>>> instead of these American actors and actresses who never get it right   
   >>>> and mess it all up....   
   >>   
   >   
   > Why do American companies keep hiring people with metric accents to play   
   > Americans?   
   >   
   Brits make great villains!  And some of their women are nice to look at.   
      
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