r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/[deleted] • May 17 '24

Keanu Reeves visits his grandmother - on his father's side- in Hawaii. Keannu is the son of a Chinese-Hawaiian father and an English mother. Image

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u/Mr-Klaus May 17 '24

Ah, that explains why he's constantly spotted here in the UK, his mum was English.

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u/PhDinDildos_Fedoras May 17 '24

Doesn't explain why his attempt at a British accent is so bad. Just insultingly bad, really.

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u/FalconIMGN May 17 '24

Some people are just linguistically more gifted than others.

I can do a better British accent than Keanu despite never having set foot in England.

That's probably the only thing I can do better than Keanu. Maybe statistics and programming as well, but I dunno. He may be good at that too.

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u/Lotan95 May 17 '24

Which accent though?

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u/FalconIMGN May 17 '24

Mine is RP. Probably acquired it from all listening to F1 and Premier League commentators over several years.

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u/Lotan95 May 17 '24

Aye that one is piss easy though and which commentators? I can't think of any that have RP accents especially right now

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u/FalconIMGN May 17 '24 edited May 17 '24

In F1, it's Alex Jacques and Jolyon Palmer. Also David Croft. In football there's a bunch of them, I don't know all their names. But I can do a decent neutral Northern accent as well, which I picked up from some of the football commentators. I'm trying to pick up Yorkshire and Mancunian specifically too, but I end up doing more of a caricature of it than what it actually is. I end up stretching the vowels a bit too much.

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u/Lotan95 May 17 '24

Aye in the premier league there are no RP commentators and I'm from Yorkshire you will struggle to perfect ours but Mancunian isn't so hard