• shasta@lemm.ee
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    16 days ago

    I am wondering if it’s the closest he could get to an American accent so they decided to roll with it

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      16 days ago

      It’s intentionally a very over the top southern accent.

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        16 days ago

        I wouldn’t say it’s over the top. It’s just old fashioned. That’s an intermediary accent between British and modern Southern American. That was a very common accent in the 1700s-1800s.