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[quote=Anonymous]Poseur: someone who speaks in an affected accent. Examples include an American born spouse who marries someone with a British accent and very quickly the American spouse speaks with a clipped British accent and uses British pronunciations and terms like laboratory/lorry/lift. Ugh. Note that it’s never the British person adopting the American accent. Linda McCartney is a great example. And no, don’t tell me that you have an ear for accents and any time you travel or spend time in a country or even return to your native country that your accent comes back. No. Not the same. I mean a carefully practiced conscious decision to fake an accent and keep it going for years. Still laugh recalling my FCPS classmates (girls) who went to southern colleges. By high school in October and certainly by winter break, they all sounded like Scarlett O’Hara, y’all! I dee-clayah! Fake poseurs! [/quote]
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