do britsh people immitate american accents?

Question

i love that britsh i can dont resist the accent. i think if a britsh guy asked me to marry him i say yes in a heart beath.
am so silly..

i forgott to ask do you feel them same for american accents or to do think its stupid

Answer 1

Only when we take the piss.

Answer 2

It is the case that most Brit pop singers, with the exception of Jonny Rotten [Cockney], tend to sing in something approaching an American style of accent. Mostly they are not real American accents but an approximation thereof.

Another strange thing - if you want to sell a product on tv, do it with an American accent. See the BBCs own ad for BBC Radio 2 - Elvis. This ad has been seen over the internet world wide by millions. All it's really doing is introducing the audience to the type of acts [singers] they will hear when they toon in to BBC Radio 2. It's Elvis you see. Using clever editing they've got the King apparently selling BBC Radio 2 to the world. It works.

One of the strange quirks of the English language, American or English, is that while it is true the majority of people in UK understand American accents and lots of slang, it may not be the case that Americans in general fully understand English as spoken by the Brits in UK - not the slang anyway.

Winston Churchill once said, "we are two nations separated by a common language". No truer words have ever been spoken.

Try this;
Eng - motor car [car] Yank - automobile [auto]
Eng - chips [fried spuds] Yank - fries
Eng - biscuits Yank - cookies

The list is endless of the different ways we English speakers use our common language.

English, the language, is the most democratic language in the world. It belongs to English speaking people and we can do exactly what we like with it.

Wm. Shakespeare for example, had to make up new words to add to scripts because they did not exist.

Do not try this at home children.

Answer 3

As some one has already said, only to take the piss! But not really in a nasty way!
We also imitate accents from different parts of the UK, also not in a nasty way (some times)!
You have just picked up on the Hugh Grant type of public school accent that Americans seem so very found of! Why, I haven't got a clue, I cant stand it !
If anyone in my local bar ever said anything like " Jolly good show old chap" He would be laughed out of the place, or worse!
Some of our accents you wouldn't understand a word of!
So don't believe every thing you see or hear on the TV or movies!
I don't believe all Americans keep saying "Get down offa that hoss" just most of them!!!!

Answer 4

Americans have an accent just like every other culture does. I'm sure the British immitate the American accent the way Americans immitate the British. The actor who plays House is British and he does a pretty good job immitating an American accent.

Answer 5

Actually, when I first started watching the new Battlestar Galactica series I thought that Apollo was played by an American actor. The sci-fi channel ran a special about the show and the actor is really British. He was talking in his normal voice and I did a double take because in the show he is required to have an American accent. I have to say he has got the American accent down perfectly!
Wonderful question! Have a great day!!!

Answer 6

Yes - I sometimes mimick the Texas accent, when I explained that I lived there for 6 months as a child, that I am glad I came back to the UK, cause I have a lovely Scottish accent. Sorry if you come from Texas - but I think I had a lucky escape!

Answer 7

I can speak with both a British and an American accent - which sort of blends into the same thing. My family comes from both places so it all comes very naturally to me. A lot of people get confused with me though, and I'm constantly asked where I come from. I think it must seem like I have my own accent. lol ;-)

Answer 8

The American/ Canadian accent is easily picked up. My sons went to an American elementary school and within weeks were speaking with a fluent American accent. They're 25 now and one of them still has a few words that 'twang'!

Answer 9

I have been living in London for 40 years and I have never, ever heard anyone imitating an American accent. If you think that the accents here are lovely, you obviously have only heard the stage ones, as they are so many and varied from Georgie in the North, Scots from Glasgow, West Country from Cornwall and Wiltshire, etc., that even hearing them on a regular basis, I still cannot understand them. As for the Brum accent from Birmingham and Scouse from Liverpool - it boggles the imagination how anyone could think of them as 'luvly'.................

Answer 10

Yeah we sometimes do American accents but not for no reason usually if we're copying someone out of an american film or relating what an american person has said to us!

Answer 11

I definitely have a Welsh accessory. i'm guessing which you will not discover that incredible - maximum folk do in comparison to Welsh accents very lots........ There are in basic terms cases 2 that I ever impersonate an American accessory: at the start I do it to in good condition with an anecdote that i'm telling approximately some thing that occurred to me in the U. S.. So I attempt & use the suited accessory for the area i became in. My widely used tale is approximately an adventure in a brand long island Starbucks the place i became asked if i needed espresso in my iced vanilla latte (then I pronounce espresso as coh-value like the long island woman who became serving me)!!! Secondly, I practice English as a distant places language and on occasion I ought to reassure scholars that that's ok in the event that they have discovered to pronounce words in yet differently to how I say them. the known one I ought to handle is "can not". I say "can not" pronounced "c-ah-nt" while they discovered "caaaan't" with an prolonged a sound.