An Intelligent Accent That Masks Origins [Disguise]

Ever wanted to speak and sound intelligent, but make sure that no one knew where you were from? This might occur in a situation when you are working as an agent. The following can be very helpful for masking your origins and creating a intelligent facade.

[Y]ou get the accent in one of three ways:

1. Learn the accent on purpose (actors used to do that).
2. Grow up or live on both sides of the Atlantic (but that can lead to even stranger accents, like those of Loyd Grossman and Madonna).
3. Pick it up at a top boarding school in America before the 1960s.

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Transatlantic English goes something like this:

1. Start with a mainstream American accent.
2. Drop your r’s at the end of words, like in “fear” and “winner”.
3. Say all your t’s as t’s not d’s (like in “water” and “butter”).
4. Use RP (British) vowels. So “dance” becomes “dahns”.

Transatlantic accent via Neatorama

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