teenager doing accents

[Jonathan Lighter]

FWIW, I've never encountered "take the piss/ piss-take" in U.S. English.

Never.

Dalect mimics beware.

JL

On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Judy Prince <jbalizsprince at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Thanks for the initial link, Paul.  I can't comment on "piss-take", never
> having heard it.
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> What is this young man's name?  He's gifted in capturing voices, and his
> comedic content and timing are excellent.
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> To me, the only sound-capture possibly not on the mark was the Chinese.
> Otherwise, he's an impressive talent.
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> Judy
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> 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 d=C3=AEner de cons, a hilarious French movie about taking
> th=
> e
> > 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.
> >
> > 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
> > > =C3=A2=E2=82=AC=E2=80=9C=C3=A2=E2=82=AC=E2=80=9C=C3=A2=E2=82=AC=E2=80=
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> > > All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"=C3=A2=E2=82=AC=E2=80=9C=
> =C3=A2=E2=82=AC=E2=80=9Ca strange complaint
> > to
> > > come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> > > =C3=A2=E2=82=AC=E2=80=9CMark Twain
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> > >
> > > On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Paul Frank <paulfrank at post.harvard.edu
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> > 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=
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> > >> Paul
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