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What's up with the whacky accent? I hear this in demonstration / marketing videos from big industrial companies all the time, and I can't figure out why you'd
by furyg3 16y ago
What's up with the whacky accent? I hear this in demonstration / marketing videos from big industrial companies all the time, and I can't figure out why you'd want someone who speaks so oddly.
"We need a professional sounding English narrator. British accent, of course, it's more refined. But not a native speaker... that's too ordinary. We need someone who's faking a British accent. Also, random word emphasis is a plus."
- leoc 16y agoEuronews http://www.euronews.net/ http://www.euronews.net/ speaks with more or less exactly this accent too.
- al05 16y agoI am british, and I could not stop laughing at the accent. You can tell its how someone not britain thinks how a british person speaks. Waaay to exaggerated.
- varjag 16y agoNice to meet you Mr. Brown. How do you do? English curriculum in Soviet schools was meant to be based on British English, but of course precious few teachers ever traveled to the UK or interacted with Britons.
- jws 16y agoPerhaps he learned his accent from watching Harry Potter hims. I kept expecting him to chastise young Mr. Potter.