With my thanks to my friend DB Cooper for posting the link to this video on the VO-BB, check out this amazing college professor as he teaches a reporter about the accent in Boston.
That was a pretty pissah video Bawb! I grew up they-ah. My early yee-ahs in VO were spent gettin’ rid-ah-my Bawstun accent. Theh’s nuthin’ werse then seein’ a bad Bawston accent though. Watch Alec Baldwin in “The Departed” as a wicked good example of how it’s naht done. Maaahk Walberg, and Matt Damon had the home field advantage, they grew up in Beantown. Leonaahdo DiCaprio was pretty good at the accent I must say.
John,
I’m glad to know you enjoyed the video and thanks for adding some detail about your own background. I agree, I’d rather hear a celebrity not attempt an accent at all that do one badly.
Be well,
Bob
That was a pretty pissah video Bawb! I grew up they-ah. My early yee-ahs in VO were spent gettin’ rid-ah-my Bawstun accent. Theh’s nuthin’ werse then seein’ a bad Bawston accent though. Watch Alec Baldwin in “The Departed” as a wicked good example of how it’s naht done. Maaahk Walberg, and Matt Damon had the home field advantage, they grew up in Beantown. Leonaahdo DiCaprio was pretty good at the accent I must say.
John,
I’m glad to know you enjoyed the video and thanks for adding some detail about your own background. I agree, I’d rather hear a celebrity not attempt an accent at all that do one badly.
Be well,
Bob