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How Americans Sound To The British

submitted by alien_concept

1 decade 1 year 9 months 1 week ago

I don't know which way round they came, but they are very similar.
http://videosift.com/video/How-British-People-Sound-To-Americans-From-SNL
And this is spot on.

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I guess it's because I'm american....but I don't get it.

...??

Waste of good chicken.

>> ^VoodooV:

I guess it's because I'm american....but I don't get it.

I'm British and have no clue either.

I'm japanese-american and don't get it.

Huh?

Unsung_Hero says...

HAHAHAHA!!!! Just Awesome!

...jk, I have no idea.

I'm guessing that they're trying to give Americans a feeling for what it is like to listen to an American accent as a foreigner by mixing in gibberish words that still contain the American pronunciation features and also speaking their lines while using American sentence stress and intonation features. The result is a spoken dialogue that is mostly unintelligible in the sense that you can't pick out specific words but in general understandable in the sense that you can use the context cues, line delivery, and a few unchanged words to figure out what is going on.

If you've ever played any of the Sims games you should be familiar with the concept, as they did something similar with Simlish.

Yet it's pretentious like French.

Go figure!

So this is how it feels to have a stroke.

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