General Discussion

@jimjimman said:

What the previous posters said. I'm from southern Louisiana (near New Orleans), and fake New Orleans accents always make me cringe. Hollywood would have people believe that a New Orleans accent sounds like a Savannah, Georgia accent. In reality the New Orleans accent sounds much like the accents of major port cities in the Northeast (New York, Boston, etc.).

I read your post in a horrific New Orleans accent in my head! I didn't even realise I was doing it, sorry! =D

@Brewmaster_Andy said:

I love how so much hate gets put on Americans doing British accents, but Brits do American accents so often and so well that so many of us forget the actors are British - think Charlie Hunnam on Sons of Anarchy.

Or like half the cast of the Wire (aka 3 people). I'm American, so to me it's always seemed like Americans have to learn new inflections, while the British just have to drop theirs. That's probably not true at all, but still: ask a Britisher to do a specific kind of American accent like Texan or New Yawk, and they tend to have a little more trouble.