I'm quite often told by American friends that everything I say sounds intelligent. (It's true.) Not that everything I say is a pearl of wisdom, you understand, but they think my British (or "Briddish") accent lends my words a certain gravitas.
Or, as Stephen Fry once said -"I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there."
A British accent in the USA increases your perceived IQ about one hundredfold. And here is the absolute proof -
Or, as Stephen Fry once said -"I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there."
A British accent in the USA increases your perceived IQ about one hundredfold. And here is the absolute proof -
Donald Trump, with a British accent.
