Renee's British Accent


What do Brits think of her accent? It doesn't sound very good to me.

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I'm British and I can tell you that no one speaks like her. There is no natural dialect there at all. Even in the leafy Home Counties, there's an accent. There's always some form of regional dialect going on. I can say this without a doubt, having studied at Oxford University, where you might think everyone sounds like The Queen but they actually don't, and also in a previous career I had to speak in what is called 'received pronunciation'. Out of the studio, I spoke in my normal dialect...

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No you're not. Reading your posts you decide what you're going to be to suit your agenda. You're a troll.
Oxford.....chuckles

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That,s why Britain is great, the accents change quite quickly, If you live in the Urban areas built up because of the London overspill, the white locals all speak with a mockney accent. Travel a few miles to the villages and the indigenous whites speak with a burry country accent. Travel east and westwards that country burr becomes the norm. Travel beyond Northampton and the accents get really hard to understand for southerners and those in the home counties. It goes wild in the Midlands and starts to change in Yorkshire and Lancashire, some parts are completely incomprehensible. Then the north east and northumberland and you might as well give up sometimes, but th accents do gentrify slightly once the locals leave their native areas.

Bridget Jones accent is something that all actors learn at drama school, it gives them the platform to adapt their voices for regional accents.

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Oxford, my arse.

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Kiss my arse. MA (Oxon).

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Don't all Brits talk like they've got marbles in their mouths?

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No... Do all Americans talk like they've got burgers in their mouths? Not to mention speaking with some obscure old dialect based on Cornish?

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From the first "Bridget Jones" movie, most Brits have said Renee's accent is very good.

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Oh really did you interview all 60 million of them personally? Even Hugh Grant thought her accent was ridiculous, if you bother to look at the early interviews about the original movie.

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I thought Rene's accent was very good myself.

It's true what has already been said here though, there is no "british accent" as such.
And that doesn't just mean the Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish dialects.

England is divided up in all manner of accents.
This page explains it pretty well:

http://www.learnbritishenglish.co.uk/introduction-to-regional-british-accents-and-dialects/

All the money, power and media of the UK is centred in London though.
This is probably why your average American doesn't really know of much beyond the southern based cockney and posh accents.

My neck of the woods a few Americans may know, but it would only be through the Beatles i.e. Liverpool/Scouse. Northern accents also may have got a bit more exposure in recent years, but this is mainly due to Game of Thrones and northern tribe using it.
That and the character of Daphne Moon in Frasier lol.

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Duh, I'm British. Daphne Moon's accent was patently silly. Jane Leeves should have used her own British accent. As for Renee's accent. It's ridiculous since her movie parents have regional dialects and pretty much sound common as muck. Yet she has an accent which even the Hilary's of Oxford University would consider fake beyond belief.

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Shut your trap you tit.

I only replied to you as yours was the last post on the thread.

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Shut your trap you dickhead. Go back to your housing scheme, you common as muck nothing....

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What a tit

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As a Brit I can tell its fake as despite what Americans seem to think, we don't all speak like we are related to the queen, but it isn't terrible. I've heard a hell of lot worse

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we don't all speak like we are related to the queen, but it isn't terrible. I've heard a hell of lot worse

agreed - it isn't perfect all of the time, but I consider it to be be very convincing, as these things go.
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i think it sounds a little bit laboured, and occasionally very put on, but i think it passes. it's very upper middle class as well. there are definitelyworse fake english accents out there (don cheadle comes to mind) - hers is probably one of the better ones.

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I asked this in a earlier thread and most people aren't bothered by her accent. If the British can look past an accent that isn't perfect, then Americans shouldn't judge it so harshly.

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It sounds fine to me. I'm American but I watch lots of things that feature various English accents. I remember when she was first cast there was grumbling, but after the first film came out people in the UK seemed to think she did fine with it.

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@singjohn, Colin Firth himself was quoted as saying Renée's accent sounded 'like a southern lady from Surrey'. ...so, I'm surmising that equals 'pretty darned good'. :)! ??

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