Ohio College Student Fakes British Accent for 5 Years, Refuses to Come Clean Because it Will Ruin Her Friendships: ‘I Just Wanted to Seem More Interesting’

How has she gotten away with this for five years?  I used to think all Americans doing fake accents were incredibly obviously fake. That was until this past weekend, when my friend Shira bet me that she could convince a stranger at this party that she was Australian. If the stranger could tell it was …
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Employee pretends to be British at work, gets caught out when office hires British temp: ‘Who knows why he was pretending?’

Lying on a resume is common practice, but lying about the country you’re from is a little more unique. While some might question the ethics of it, it is understandable that someone might inflate their qualifications and experience somewhat to try to give themselves an edge in the ever-competitive job market. No one can prove …
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Multilingual Dude Figures Out Perfect Formula For Speaking Human Simlish

Language is very cool. Nothing displays the diversity of world culture like the ways in which we speak, and these idiosyncrasies don’t just stop with humans. Perhaps the most famous virtual dialect to ever exist is Simlish, the babble spoken by the characters in the favorite game of pool ladder-deleting sadists everywhere. The whole point …
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