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It's an American version of what they think Canadians sound like.
100% agreed. Americans by and large don't really know what Canadians sound like at all. To my Minnesotan ears, people in Western Canada (Manitoba all the way west to British Columbia) sound like Californians with just a few pronunciation differences on some key words.
This just goes to show why so many Canadian actors/musicians/comedians/media personalities are so successful in the US. A lot of the time, no one even realizes they're Canadian.
I tried to assert that a few pages back, to no response.
Not to mention, many of the major streets in Minneapolis are named after French explorers and missionaries (Hennepin, La Salle, Marquette, Nicollet, Bottineau, etc.)
Minnesota has major French influence, are you crazy?
Lac qui Parle
Duluth
Le Sueur
Mille Lacs
Vermillion
Marquette
La Croix
Belle Plaine
Grand Portage
Nicollet County
Not sure what else to say..
Place names across the Midwest reflect French explorers, and this isn’t at all unique to Minnesota: see e.g., city and town names across Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, even parts of Indiana and Ohio. None of these places retain a French culture in modern times even remotely resembling what you see in Canada, or even the parts of the U.S. such as Louisiana, or northern Vermont/northern Maine. They’re just places named after French explorers and famous French individuals.
100% agreed. Americans by and large don't really know what Canadians sound like at all. To my Minnesotan ears, people in Western Canada (Manitoba all the way west to British Columbia) sound like Californians with just a few pronunciation differences on some key words.
This just goes to show why so many Canadian actors/musicians/comedians/media personalities are so successful in the US. A lot of the time, no one even realizes they're Canadian.
They are trained to rid themselves of any Canadian accent they may have, so they can find more work. A friend who went to the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Pasadena went through that. I remember him practising to elongate his vowels, etc.
They are trained to rid themselves of any Canadian accent they may have, so they can find more work. A friend who went to the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Pasadena went through that. I remember him practising to elongate his vowels, etc.
There is no way every Canadian coming down to do film/television work in the States is getting speech training. That's preposterous. A lot of Canadians just simply don't have much of a discernible accent, especially among younger people.
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