Yeah, that was a weird one. It's probably just a case of the folks who made this video not being aware it's everywhere.
RE: Irish/British actors doing our accents: but do they
really? Do they
ever sound like you speak in daily life? There seems to be a generic North American accent that they go for. I bet if an Irish/British actor was trying to sound like someone from Kitchener, they might fuck it up a bit. I'd say our success rate back and forth is pretty similar depending on what we're aiming for.
And the same is probably true in reverse, and that's why it sounds wrong.
Notice she says in that video, about the Irish actor, that he flattens his accent enough to sound like someone from up the shore, not St. John's. Those two things are different, and although he's supposed to be doing the latter, it's actually the former he achieves. A "close enough" sort of deal.
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Nudding is a really good one, BTW. There was a rash of Newfie jokes on Reddit recently, they were trendy for some reason, and people trying to immitate our accent in the comments would turn "th" into "d" and drop the "g". We don't do that. It's never "nuttin'", b'ys, get it together.
Speaking of which - not really Canadian, but entertaining. Dies at this:
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