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jejozi — 13 years ago(September 04, 2012 06:58 PM)
Ya know what? I'll bet there's not one American watching this American show who gives a rat's a$$ as to whether her accent is "too ham fisted". It's only those with low self esteem that have to come on to a message board complaining that an accent isn't accurate. And I thought those from the UK were bad when it came to this.
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alkamal_r — 13 years ago(September 04, 2012 10:34 PM)
That was his point, he does not ham it up in real life as he has that accent already (he said he hams it up a little for the show, which Nayyar has admitted to in interviews).
Aarti Mann on the other hand hams it up completely as she normally speaks in an American, oh sorry, Pittsburgh accent in real life.
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jejozi — 13 years ago(September 05, 2012 04:59 PM)
Unless he "hammed it up" on Conan, he doesn't on TBBT. I'd watched an hour of TBBT right before he was on Conan, he sounded just the same. His body language is different, but not his accent.
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jswitte-871-211516 — 13 years ago(July 12, 2012 06:15 PM)
As for her on-screen accent, WHERE in India is the accent supposed to be, how accurate is it, and is that Aarti Mann's actual English accent? I knew a number of (college) students in the US who were born in India who did not have the kind of "throaty" a5b4ccent that Mann does on BBT (I don't know better how to describe it, and was never good at the Phonetics ling course..)
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Skylightmovies — 12 years ago(March 01, 2014 10:23 AM)
To OP , why?Must be something to do with your own history.
I love to hear Asian actors and actresses talk with that 'posh' Indian accent. It is quite refreshing than what I have become used to recently,which is a brown person speaking exactly like the 'english' people around them with only the colour of their skin to fill you in on their 'maybe' background.
And then there are actors like Aziz Ansari who barely have an accent..so something/one for everybody,,right?