Do you get wound up by actors doing your accent wrongly?

[Pruni]

I only ask because I was watching Ivor the Engine today and thought some of the Welsh accents sounded pretty dodge.

I am Scottish and it never fails to amaze me how many actors (and good ones at that) think they can get away with the crappy offerings that are their Scottish accents.

Really winds me up. Let's name and shame.

Oh, everyone does, MrsBadger, dodgy hair, dodgy accent and all. Isn't he also only about 3ft tall?

anyone trying to do an aussie accent grates on me - but americans tend to be the worst - sorry. It used to really wind me up when people tried to do a Steve Irwin when they found out I was an aussie - of course all aussies sound like him don't they!

may I complain about the bad treatment us frogs get when we're 'done' speaking english? Now I do know that lots of French people speak english with a very french accent but not all of us do!!!!! According to dh, my french accent in english is very similar to Juliette Binoche's in the English Patient (or maybe he just likes her...)
I do forgive Kevin Kline though because he's so great anyway

This is an interesting thread because it is hard for a foreigner to learn to distinguish regional accents in Britain, so when you think you're getting better at it, you realise that in fact, half the time you've probably heard it on TV done badly!!!

god yes, people trying to do geordie accents, its terrible, really winds me up.

Too right, Pruni! We once lived in the scheme the novel is based in. Believe me, once you get to know that accent, you can pick it 'oot' anywhere. And Sick Boy just doesn't have it.

Nope. Mind you that accent is rough.

Painful listening to the Scots doing standard English too. Euan MacGregor doing posh English...(hey, he's crap full stop.)

tell me about it, pruni. one of our neighbours had a dog called 'shadow'. she never spoke to it, she never spoke to anyone, always shouted. 'SHA-doooh'.

Was that the estate with Jakey Leek and his brothers?

Prefer to sound like James Nesbit wharfy! lol

Muirhouse. Also known in local parlance as 'Muirhoose'.

Yes, annoys me that all put on scottish accents are based on the Glasgwegian accent.

On the other hand, Jane in Eastenders is Scottish. How's her accent? She sounds ok to me, but the real eastenders are probably thoroughly annoyed by her.....

You're soo right about the Welsh thing Pruni.
We don't all say 'boyo' and 'look you' every other word (in fact noone does..) and the Northern accent is completely different to the Southern in any case.

It generally morphs into an Indian waiter pastiche anyway.

I am brilliant at accents.
Southern belle is my speciality Expat.

well i'm from liverpool and 95% of people on t.v do the accent badly!
it's either nearly brummie or just so fake you can't tell what it's supposed to be.
and when people think of the liverpool accent, it's always the really scally scouse that they 'do'.
makes me shudder.

i was always the one who had to break bad news or make the difficult phone calls at work b/c the bosses would always say my accent went down better.

ever heard matthew mcconaughey say, 'oh, come on now, ya'll'?

yeah, that about sums it up.

i would think a welsh accent would be harder to do than a scottish one, but then, i'm used to hearing a scottish one.

Frenchgirl, I'm with you.

And on the:-

americans doing the english accent really annoys me always some rubbish cockney barrow boy rip off.

however james marsters was so perfect i couldnt believe he wasnt english. he was born here but he is american.

southerners are always piss taking my accent - in real life i have a girly voice. fairly high and definatley in the girly girl range.

however when people parody me - as they often do they do some "eeeee, by,,,eck,,,,, wheres mi whippet..." bollocks in a deep deep man voice.

beeezzzaarrrooo

Americans doing Irish accents

Tom Cruise Nicole in Kidman Far and a bloody Way.

Brad Pitt Snatch, easy on the eye but crap traveller accent.

Posh dublin 4 actors strangling a Real Dublin accent to death.

Sorry grammar F*ck up!

Oooh agree re Far and away Mhamai!

Ah Begorrah an all that shite, next they'll be saying St Pat drove snakes from Ireland! sheeez!

lol

Ugh! Dick Van Bloody Dyke! grrr

And most attempts at a "Cockernee" accent i find irksome.

Mel Gibson obviously, no real scots talk like that. Even Liam Neeson's effort in Rob Roy was pretty bad, and while i'm on a roll here, that whole Loch Ness thing with Joely Richardson was another accent that annoyed me. There are some really good Scots actors and actresses out there, so use them.

I also find that most people, when impersonating a scots accent always pick West Coast or "Glesga" accents, thinking, wrongly, that everyone in Scotland has the same accent. The accent i have is very similar to the Orcadian accent, and have been asked on several occasions if im Orcadian. Opposite end of the country though.

One person who does annoy me is Catherine Zeta Jones, who has a lovely Welsh accent (when she remembers), but when she is being interviewed, especially by US based media, she talks with this strange american accent.