The "expressive" example in french exhibits a thick accent which bothers me more than the mechanical aspect of the non-expressive french example. It's not diss

The "expressive" example in french exhibits a thick accent which bothers me more than the mechanical aspect of the non-expressive french example. It's not dissimilar to some kind of a "ch'ti" / "chtimi" accent or a belgian-french accent (which is not dissimilar to the french ch'ti accent, heard in some part of the north of France. "Ne partez pooooo" (with a longer "a" which sounds nearly like an 'o': that's not proper french at all) instead of "Ne partez pas". That's said I'll take the non-expressive accent any day over subtitles for when watching video in a language I don't understand: it's clearly good enough.