Thai lady's accent terrible?
Whenever I hear the thai wife speak I sort of cringe. It sounds like an american doing an asian accent to try to be funny.
Anybody else feel this way or am I way off base?
You're more or less right there. I've heard Renée Lim speak naturally (in her role in East West 101) and she has a pretty conventional Australian accent (just as well as she was born in Australia), so it's jarring to me too as I know that she's putting it on, and I don't think that she's doing a particularly good job of it either. Renée is of Chinese-Malaysian decent in real life. Some of her inflections are pretty accurate, but for the most part, her character seems too much like a grotesque caricature for her own good (which is where At Home With Julia also suffered with Amanda Bishop's ridiculously cartoonish impersonation of former Australian PM Julia Gillard).
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