neatchee@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Like others, I won’t comment on whether this is a good idea or not…
Consider that all of the changes happened over time. (Unless you’re speaking with a Queen’s English accent, which is a posh fabrication created by the upper class BUT I DIGRESS)
So, for example, take the word “water”. Look at the first syllable, ‘wat’. Imagine it with a British accent, then with an American one. Think about just the vowel, the A. Try to say that vowel out loud in one accent, and hold it, then slide to the other one.
It will take lots of careful thought but you can do a similar “slow slip” for consonants and entire words too.
Good luck, I guess?
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
As an American (Los Angeles) I think the main difference between how I pronounce water and the way Judi Dench does it is the t. We treat the t like our brake pedal at a stop sign with no other cars around, barely a tap, basically a d sound. The a we pronounce ah. Judi’s ah sounds similar but maybe a little oh-ish to us.Then of course there’s the -er, which we do pronounce, while Judi says -uh, in the classiest way evah of course!