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If I'm white, have an English last name, and went to uni abroad, am I allowed to speak in an RP accent?
I'm basically English, but I've lived most of my life outside the UK, so I don't really understand the tensions there. Is RP the "I went to Oxbridge, you redbrick scum" accent or is it more neutral than that?
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>>35150280
Look up yt vids with actual speakers of the accent and try to copy them.
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>>35150354
Yeah, but I mean, is it considered pretentious or neutral?
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>>35151287
To other britbongs?
Maybe a bit pretentious, especially to northerners
To Amerikeks/foreigners?
Perfectly fine, even admired
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>>35151431
I suppose I should clarify - I'm moving back to the UK, generally want to iron out my weird child-of-Shell-employees-who-had-a-Chinese nanny accent.
It's not an accent that actually exists in any one place, it's sort of an accident of international commerce that everyone has trouble understanding.
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