teenager doing accents

[Judy Prince]

Thanks for the initial link, Paul.  I can't comment on "piss-take", never
having heard it.

What is this young man's name?  He's gifted in capturing voices, and his
comedic content and timing are excellent.

To me, the only sound-capture possibly not on the mark was the Chinese.
Otherwise, he's an impressive talent.

Judy


On 4 October 2010 07:39, Paul Frank <paulfrank at post.harvard.edu> wrote:

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> One of several mistakes I caught is that Californians don't "take the
> piss." The art of the piss-take is rare in California, and it's not
> known by that name. By the way, I think that the New Oxford
> Dictionary's definition of "taking the piss" as to "mock someone or
> something" misses the important element of doing it without the victim
> knowing that he's had the piss taken. I hear that Hollywood has done a
> remake of Le dîner de cons, a hilarious French movie about taking the
> piss. Dinner for Schmucks I think it's called, but I doubt very much
> that it's as funny. Come to think of it, I have no idea how to say "to
> take the piss" in French - or in American English for that matter.
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> Paul
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> On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 3:53 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > His Russian was pretty bad. But a Russian accent in English is hard to
> > get the hang of. I wouldn't even try, myself. Otherwise, I was
> > generally impressed.
> >
> > As for the various versions of Britspeak, I'm now satisfied that, WRT
> > all those friendly British soldiers who attempted, mostly
> > unsuccessfully, to converse with me, back in the day, it wasn't me. It
> > was them. Well, actually, I already knew that. Some while ago, 25
> > years or so, a British dramedy called "Bross" - spelled _Brass_ - was
> > provided with subtitles for its American audience.
> >
> > --
> > -Wilson
> > –––
> > All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint
> to
> > come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> > –Mark Twain
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Paul Frank <paulfrank at post.harvard.edu>
> wrote:
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> >> Here's an English teenager doing a bunch of English accents. Apologies
> >> if this has been posted before:
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> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/01/24-english-accents_n_747400.html>
> >>
> >> Paul
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