When someone from Britain speaks, Americans hear a "British accent"...

[DaveM]

On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 14:52:44 -0700, James Stroud <jstroud at mbi.ucla.edu>
wrote:

>Frankly, I can't watch Shakespeare or movies like "the full monty" or 
>"trainspotting" because I can't understand a damn word they say. British talk 
>sounds like gibberish to me for the most part.

Not just you. It always amuses me in trips to the US that British voices
(outside of the movies) are often subtitled, while first-generation
Americans whose English is. um, limited, are not.

Try pretending the British accents are from naturalised US citizens. That
should do the trick.

DaveM