The last day of preseason was Friday. My coach thought it would be fun to change things up. The first rule was to have all the Americans speak with English accents and the Brits with American.
(Just to be clear my internet fan-base, I am well aware that accent is the incorrect terminology. No English speaking person can have an accent in the English Language. An accent is when you bring aspects of your native language into a whole new one. The difference between American and British is a dialect. No one but me seems to care about this difference, so we will continue to call is an accent. Keep in mine dear readers, that every time the word "accent" is incorrectly used, I cringe.)
Well it was hilarious. The Brits had pretty good American accents (cringe), but they sounded like they were in great pain with each word. They informed the Americans that we tend to create an accent (cringe) that does not exist. It is not American, but it is not English. Some Americans could not even get the fake accent (cringe) down. They ended up sounding like drunken pirates. "I fell on me arse!" The coach just sounded special.
One British girl thought the pinnacle American was Regina George from the best movie ever Mean Girls. We Americans laughed at this idea, and then as she put on a perfect American accent (cringe) and had ideal colloquialisms, we realized that Regina George is America.
Go and watch this movie. Study the awfulness of the high school girls, and realize that is the most accurate representation of your culture. "On Wednesdays we wear pink."
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