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Dominique De Bast
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posted September 19, 2015 05:43 PM

Just for the fun, could one of our American memmbers have a look at the 17 first seconds of this French commercial and say if the policeman has the right accent ? The action is supposed to happen in Asheville, North Carolina. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBD6ajp-0ZQ

Edited : I've just found a second commercial with another state mentionned and it seems to be the same policeman so the accent is more than probably not correct https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORxEOkGEhRU

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Bryan Chernick
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posted September 20, 2015 12:32 AM

I'm not from that part of the country but I have been there. That doesn't sound like a North Carolina accent. North Carolina is South of the Mason Dixon line, that sounds like a Yankee accent.

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Dominique De Bast
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posted September 20, 2015 01:33 AM

Thank you, Bryan. I guess that for a large country like the US, it must be impossible to know all the variations of accents.

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Steve Klare
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posted September 20, 2015 05:36 AM

To me the accent is more "TV Cop"!

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Larry Arpin
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posted September 20, 2015 03:25 PM

Here's a good example of a NC accent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAqm5ls8Ep8

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Dominique De Bast
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posted September 21, 2015 02:58 AM

Thanks for the answers.

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Graham Ritchie
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posted September 21, 2015 01:59 PM

For many of us...Sheriff JW Pepper.. in "Live and Let Die" sums that Southern accent up [Wink]

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David M. Ballew
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posted September 21, 2015 02:03 PM

I am a native of Greenville, South Carolina, which is about an hour's drive south of Asheville. In fact, I worked as a cinema projectionist in Asheville proper for about a year in the mid-1990s.

I agree that the accent could be taken as generic "TV cop." I realize the actor speaks only four words, but I would further submit, speaking very subjectively, that he sounds to me like a Frenchman putting on a generic "TV cop" (or region-neutral North American) accent. Something in the second syllable of "grandma" is ringing this particular bell for me, and I repeat for emphasis that this is entirely a subjective reaction.

This seems an opportune moment to share a widely held opinion in South Carolina, that the only person in "Gone With The Wind" who sounds authentic is Clark Gable, the one person who refused to even attempt a Southern accent. :-)

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