a TV thing that really annoys me:
Mar. 16th, 2017 01:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Suspect is interviewed by the police, speaking with a perfect American accent.
Suspect is revealed to be French criminal in disguise.
Their disguise revealed, suspect now smugly starts declaring that they're going to get away with the crime - in French-accented English.
It's just...
*sighs*
My German accent is very good. And rather Bavarian. I don't go around talking in more Aussie sounding German just so I can tip off all the Germans that I'm a foreigner. Someone who can speak in another language with a good accent isn't going to switch to a clumsy foreign accent just for funsies.*
* Unless you are Hercule Poirot, who does just that.
Suspect is revealed to be French criminal in disguise.
Their disguise revealed, suspect now smugly starts declaring that they're going to get away with the crime - in French-accented English.
It's just...
*sighs*
My German accent is very good. And rather Bavarian. I don't go around talking in more Aussie sounding German just so I can tip off all the Germans that I'm a foreigner. Someone who can speak in another language with a good accent isn't going to switch to a clumsy foreign accent just for funsies.*
* Unless you are Hercule Poirot, who does just that.
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Date: 2017-03-16 02:47 am (UTC)And maintaining a perfect accent is hard work, so when there is no longer a need, it's a relief to be able to go all lazy and native-accented. :-)
(Maybe you'd prefer it if the spy suddenly whipped out a beret and started buttering a baguette?
Actually, I'm sure that's already happened in spoofs of spy movies...)
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