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English-speakers: which accent is harder to fake, either from a technical sense or as a matter of propriety?
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American
Australian
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Anonymous 20h

Maybe I’m biased bc I’m American and not Australian but unless you’re American faking a different kind of American accent nobody is good at doing a fake American accent even as a parody. Like even when it isn’t supposed to be believable it’s just for a joke ppl cannot manage to sound American. The R is difficult bc our R pronunciation is fairly rare. But also like, the roundness of vowels and the lexicon itself.

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Anonymous 20h

I think American is harder because there’s a ton of massively different dialects just within small areas, let alone the whole country, so often when people are trying to fake an American accent it just sounds like a mix of several

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Anonymous 19h

Voted American but I think it could just be due to bias. I imagine Australians think our impressions of them are bad too.

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Anonymous 19h

I think Australian has more of a niche sound to it - a lot of people around the world watch American media so the accent is more accessible to recreate. But, for example, I once saw a creator from New Zealand make fun of someone for mistaking a New Zealand accent for an Australian one (to them the difference was clearly obvious) and I can’t hear the difference at all

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