There is also many bands with fake accents, like 1980s Minor Threat with whatever UK accent Ian Mackaye was channeling
How a Fake British Accent Took Old Hollywood by Storm
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#12Why does all Star Wars movies use aristocratic British accent?
It's not just Star Wars, the Evil Brit is a fairly common trope:
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#13" . . . sometimes called the Mid-Atlantic Accent, which is deeply offensive to those, like me, from the actual Mid-Atlantic . . . "
" . . . elocution class is wildly offensive to most of the modern linguists . . . "
What is it with this childish writing, being "deeply, wildly" offended at, instead of disagreeing with? Its the wrinting caliber of a young teen, and it seems to be popular.
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#14I missed references in the article to Kelsey Grammer, the actor who portrayed Fraser Crane in the sitcom Fraser. That was how I became acquainted with the Mid-Atlantic accent, by researching Grammer's (or Fraser's to be more precise) distinctively snobby accent.
Fraser's lines and Grammer's interpretation probably deserve a place in the canons of American English accents and linguistics.
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#15Why does all Star Wars movies use aristocratic British accent?
Star Wars villains in the first series use such accents.
A) The Imperial Navy is a euphimism for the British Navy / Empire.
B) It was filmed in the UK with almost all UK actors.
The new Star Wars - none of the accents are posh really.
Just English accents, again actors, filming etc. - although - I think there was some attempt by JJ to keep it UK-ish in that manner, though I'm not sure.
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#16Completely off-topic, but does Latin have genders? Is "Atlas" feminine there? "Atlas obscura" sounds very wrong to me, I imagine it should be "Atlas obscurus".
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#17Why does all Star Wars movies use aristocratic British accent?
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#18Completely off-topic, but does Latin have genders? Is "Atlas" feminine there? "Atlas obscura" sounds very wrong to me, I imagine it should be "Atlas obscurus".
Well spotted. Latin has three genders, and Atlas is listed as masculine in all of the online dictionaries listed here: http://www.lexilogos.com/english/latin_dictionary.htm so it should indeed be Atlas obscurus.
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#20An earlier example of this accent is the 1921 recording of William Jennings Bryan reading his famous 1896 "Cross of Gold" speech.