Why Kevin Spacey's accent in House of Cards sounds off
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The linguistics behind Kevin Spacey's Southern accent in House of Cards. Read What linguists say about Kevin Spacey's bizarre Southern accent on House of Cards: http://www.vox.com/2015/2/27/8119829/house-of-cards-spacey-southern-accent Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Produced by Joss Fong with Alex Abad-Santos Images courtesy of Getty Sources: Dennis Preston, Oklahoma State University; Robin Dodsworth, North Carolina State University; Kirk Hazen, West Virginia University The Atlas of North American English: http://www.ling.upenn.edu/phono_atlas/Atlas_chapters/Ch18_2nd.rev.pdf /// Vox.com is news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Check out http://www.vox.com to get up to speed on everything from Kurdistan to the Kim Kardashian app. Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE Follow Vox on Twitter: http://goo.gl/XFrZ5H Or on Facebook: http://goo.gl/U2g06o
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This is just how people from SC talk...
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I'm Nigerian and I couldn't get into this show because of that accent, and a few other things too.
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I have disgraced my southern brothers by adopting a Yankee accent. I've been born and raised in Louisiana all my life and I talk like some random northern American.
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I'm from Kentucky and I learned so much about my own dialect. I never thought I had much of an accent but I went to New York last year and everyone there was like "you're from the south aren't you?". crazy how different people sound from other areas of the same country
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vox
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for me spacey on house of cards sounds awesome...
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WOW! I learnt so many new things watching this, goodness me!
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But why does he say Hwat?
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i love your voice
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Steve Irwin FTW
Aussie aussie aussie oi oi oi -
But why does he put so much emphasis on the "h" when saying what?
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I'm always confused when actors use this southern accent outside of a period film b/c I rarely hear it used where I'm from (I've lived in Georgia, Texas, and Louisiana). I feel like British people actually do a better job of the southern accent than non-Southern Americans, and I think that's b/c southern accent has more similarities to it.
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nice
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His terrible accent is one of the reasons I stopped watching the show. Also, if the people watching the show can tell your character is slimy and manipulative, the people in the show's universe should be able to also. The character shows no genuine charisma. He should have played the accent more understated and believable, and the character less of a caricature of a politician. It's disappointing because Spacey is pretty charismatic and unique as a person.
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Ain't no one from the upcountry especially not Gaffney talks like Frank Underwood
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He sounded British. He could play James Bond tbh.
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An interesting video, but credibility is somewhat ruined by generalising all English and Australian accents
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1:47 So how come the area around Charleston is different from the rest of the South?
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Amazing video, learned a lot. So why does Kevin Spacey's accent in House of Cards sound off?
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I'm from Tennessee... and I really just thought he sounded retarded... sad that they stereotype us and now half the country thinks we talk that way... we really don't.
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