This is fun to watch:
As mentioned in the comments, though, the Toronto accent is purely a figment of her imagination; it sounds like something out of the movie “Fargo,” with her “five” sounding US midwestern and her “sorry” coming out as a very American “sawry” and not as the Canadian “so-rry.” Her Seattle accent, just before the Toronto one, actually sounds like someone from Toronto.
Did she get any of the others right?
Look, why don’t who Canadians stop pretending that you are anything other than Iowa and Minnesota writ large to 30 million people. Y’all are Midwestern white people. Enough of this pretension that you are a unique, special culture different from liberal white people in Madison, Wisconsin.
Canada in a nutshell. And San Francisco, too. The only difference between white people in Canada and the U.S. is that Canada doesn’t have to deal with hordes of poor, ignorant, white trash rednecks dominating our society. People born in trailer parks in Canada are generally higher educated than Americans born in similar socioeconomic circumstances. I don’t know why. I blame the pernacious influence of hip-hop and Hee-Haw and WWF. Canadians are more influenced by England, culturally, than the U.S. The U.S., particularly the Sunbelt, is more influenced by Mexico. Draw your own conclusions. (No offense, Dragonbones, but Technolitan ain’t exactly Shakespeare). You’re more sophisticated and culturally advanced than Americans are. But less culturally vital for exactly those same reasons. I mean, rock’n’roll and jazz aren’t exactly about good taste in a Masterpiece Theatre sense.
Anyway, the cultural influence of Canada is roughly the same as that of New Guinea. Do I have to pull out the Orson Welles chestnut from The Third Man about Switzerland vs. Italy? Yes, the perfect societies are Denmark to Iceland, but the Scandinavian contribution to world culture can be fitted into a needle dancing upon the pinhead of angels. It’s the fucked up, disturbed societies such as Italy, the American South, Russia, Brazil, California, France, Germany, and Ireland that produce 90% of the world’s great art and culture.
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Whoa…look, whoever she was, she may have been a bitch, but she does not represent all Canadians. I think you’ve just got to forget about her and move on. The best revenge is living well, and all that.
Back on topic: another thing that’s interesting is that while she does manage several from the UK and Ireland, what’s daunting is when you consider that she missed out on hundreds of other distinctive accents from there (Manc, Geordie, Aberdeen, Yorkshire, and on and on). On the other hand, in terms of North America she covered the majority of the bases, only missing out on a couple of distinctive accents like the midwestern Northern Cities Vowel Shift,* the Boston/New England one, the Woody Allen educated New Yorker, the black American, the clipped Western Canadian and perhaps a few others.
It certainly is astounding how varied the speech of the UK/Ireland is.
Actually, she might have tried a South Asian or a Hong Kong immigrant to really round out the mix, but then, it’s not like she’s taking requests.
Is she?
*Think Herb Tarlek’s wife on WKRP in Cincinnati, though, of course, like all television shows they got that wrong, because Cincinnatians don’t speak like Herb Tarlek’s wife.
Q… cranky today, eh?
I thought that was pretty neat. Too bad she didn’t include a North Side Pittsburgh accent.
[quote=“Quentin”]Look, why don’t who Canadians stop pretending that you are anything other than Iowa and Minnesota writ large to 30 million people. Y’all are Midwestern white people. Enough of this pretension that you are a unique, special culture different from liberal white people in Madison, Wisconsin.
Canada in a nutshell. And San Francisco, too. The only difference between white people in Canada and the U.S. is that Canada doesn’t have to deal with hordes of poor, ignorant, white trash rednecks dominating our society. People born in trailer parks in Canada are generally higher educated than Americans born in similar socioeconomic circumstances. I don’t know why. I blame the pernacious influence of hip-hop and Hee-Haw and WWF. Canadians are more influenced by England, culturally, than the U.S. The U.S., particularly the Sunbelt, is more influenced by Mexico. Draw your own conclusions. (No offense, Dragonbones, but Technolitan ain’t exactly Shakespeare). You’re more sophisticated and culturally advanced than Americans are. But less culturally vital for exactly those same reasons. I mean, rock’n’roll and jazz aren’t exactly about good taste in a Masterpiece Theatre sense.
Anyway, the cultural influence of Canada is roughly the same as that of New Guinea. Do I have to pull out the Orson Welles chestnut from The Third Man about Switzerland vs. Italy? Yes, the perfect societies are Denmark to Iceland, but the Scandinavian contribution to world culture can be fitted into a needle dancing upon the pinhead of angels. It’s the fucked up, disturbed societies such as Italy, the American South, Russia, Brazil, California, France, Germany, and Ireland that produce 90% of the world’s great art and culture.
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Canada has a National Igloo
I think that most people actually from the area she’s taking off would spot a few flaws, some more flawed than others (I thought the Belfast one was pretty bad), but to get all of them recognisable in one take is impressive. S’got me thinking about how many I could do passably…
[quote=“rousseau”]This is fun to watch:
As mentioned in the comments, though, the Toronto accent is purely a figment of her imagination; it sounds like something out of the movie “Fargo,” with her “five” sounding US midwestern and her “sorry” coming out as a very American “sawry” and not as the Canadian “so-rry.” Her Seattle accent, just before the Toronto one, actually sounds like someone from Toronto.
Did she get any of the others right?[/quote]
I thought it was good fun. Not convinced with the Aussie and New Zealand accent, though. Somewhat disappointed she didn’t say, “Howzit, my name are Amy Walkerrrr. I is Souf Efriken. I am being borrrrn in Benoni and wants to be a Hollywood starrrr likes ourrr girrrrl Charlize Theron…”
This is just a parody of an Afrikaans accent and not to be taken seriously. Of course we all know Charlize doesn’t sound like that.
Been out on the piss again, have we? 
Slightly off topic
:bravo: Hahaha…The article about white folks and soccer was interesting. reminds me of all the North American lads in the Tainan Phoenix soccer team and how they religiously come over to the Armory to support their favourite “soccer” teams.
Sigh. You people are on to me. A couple of years ago that calculated bit of trolling would have set off a 20-page flamewar about Canadians and their reputation in Taiwan. But now, people know not to take me seriously when I’m on one of my drunken rants.