Luke Thompson

Unless we're able to copy the accents perfectly, there's three potential problems.

Problem number one is that we just give a false representation of what the accent is.

For example, if I'm trying to do a certain specific London accent and I can't quite do it perfectly, then that's not really teaching you what the accent genuinely sounds like.

Secondly, if I don't do it correctly or if Patricio doesn't do it correctly, then we could just make a fool of ourselves on the internet.

And people can be very sensitive about accents.

You know, if you don't get it just right, people will call you out and they don't like it.

And thirdly, it can even be offensive, you know, to do another accent wrong.

And there are various little pitfalls, sort of cultural, political, social pitfalls around copying someone else's accent and not doing it 100% perfectly.

And so for that reason, we don't,

demonstrate the accents all that much during the episode instead i encourage you to go and watch patricio's videos specifically the ones he's done about london accents and i've put links in the description because in those videos you'll see that patricio actually plays different samples of people who were born sort of speaking like that people who naturally speak like that he plays samples of them talking in his videos and that's quite a good way to

you know, get a sense of what those accents really sound like.

So we agreed that it's a little bit problematic to try to copy other people's accents.

Having said that...

I'm certain that during this conversation, you will definitely want to hear those accents demonstrated.

And so actually, maybe against my better judgment, in the second part of this episode, I will go through those accents in a bit more detail.

I will point out some more specific sort of phonological details for those accents, certain vowel sounds or certain consonant sounds and things like that.

I will get into a bit more detail after the conversation and I will demonstrate some of the accents.

Now, some of these four accents that we're talking about, I'm pretty confident I can do them fairly well.

And if not, if not, I will try and find some samples to play you.

So in the second half of this episode, I'll get into some more details and we'll demonstrate the accents to you in more detail.