Maybe it's a good movie, but I have no idea, since I could only understand about 25%
of what they were saying, due to their thick accents.
Also, did anyone else think that Wendy, Andy and Aubrey were all goofs, and Nicola was
a total bitch?
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I understood it all. It was a good film though it's a long time since I watched it. And yes, I'm British.
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That's what I figured. We Americans have difficulty trying to understand the various British dialects and slang, especially
those of the lower classes as in this film.
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To be fair there are some American accents that I can't follow - Holly Hunter can leave me completely baffled.
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It's good to know that we're not the only ones who have that problem. She did a southern accent in Raising Arizona (one of my favorites). Are southern American accents difficult for you?
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I think it is the fast talking southern accents that are difficult. They seem to bite off half of each word and it sounds like turkey gobble to my ears.
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Same thing happens to me when I hear some of the British accents. As Henry Higgins said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3Vx0VvcQyY&ab_channel=LeandroGrandpaSteeleTropa84
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Turn on the closed captions. Not ideal, but sometimes unavoidable, if you want to understand everything.
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