doubtlesswonder
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I'd love to know what people consider to be a Yorkshire accent. So many actors get stick for their attempts at a Yorkshire accent, but I'm not sure what people mean. I'm from Yorkshire- South Yorkshire to be precise- and my accent doesn't even sound the same as other people from South Yorkshire, never mind people from other parts of Yorkshire. It's the same as when people mention a British accent. What exactly is that, some weird amalgamation of English, Welsh and Scottish? I'm beginning to think people are basing their perception of a Yorkshire accent on Emmerdale. 
I don't watch Emmerdale I am not basing Josh Hartnett's accent on that, I based what his sounds like compared to everyone else in the film that are attempting a 'Yorkshire' accent. Apparently, if what you say is true, the director got the cast to watch Emmerdale and he was attempting to copy that 
Whichever way you look at it, Hartnett's accent ,no matter which part of the UK he is supposed to be from is atrocious. Again, just listen to it- click Where the hell is he supposed to be from?
I agree on the 'British' accent thing though, there is no such thing. I have tried to teach Americans that, online, for a while now.
Well I know when I refer to a British accent, I mean an accent that from somewhere in Britain, the same way I call an accent from somewhere in America American. Of course there's such a thing as a British accent, but there isn't one British accent that applies to all. That goes for everywhere lads not just Britain.
Not a lad. 
And no, I don't think there IS such a thing as a British accent. British means Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Island....s how can there be one accent that encompasses all those things? The same goes for American, really. There isn't really one American accent, it depends which part of America you're from.
But the point I was trying to make was how can you criticise someone for their British accent being crap when there is no such thing? Similarly, people complained about Anne Hathaway's 'One Day' accent being a bad Yorkshire accent...but it depends what they're basing that on. In the book, she's a girl born in Leeds who moved to Edinburgh and then spent a shitload of time in London. The book also mentions that her accent slips sometimes.
I just think it's silly to criticise someone's accent when you're basing it on an accent that doesn't actually exist.
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(that's for the accent mix-up, not because you are from Kent......) 
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