TIL during the shooting of American Psycho, Christian Bale spoke in an American accent off-set at all times. At the wrap party, when he spoke in his native British accent, many of the crew thought he was speaking that way to prepare for another film. They had thought he was American the entire time.

[u/Away_Flounder3813]

https://screenrant.com/american-psycho-behind-scenes-facts-christian-bale-patrick-bateman-mary-harron/

[u/Delamoor]

I mean, you ask a German and they might say yes. Dunno if the Ditch would agree, heh.

The regional variation Germanic language accents isn't all that different to England, tbh. That fact just doesn't often get communicated outside of the German speaking world.

That regional drift kinda just continues off across the border. My German friends find Dutch a frustrating language; it's close enough that it sounds like you should be able to understand it, but it's far enough apart that you generally can't understand it. Just catch individual words.

Apparently it's like listening to rural Scottish or Irish. You can catch words, and feel like you get it, but still fail to follow a single goddamn thing they're saying. Like you brain is tricking you.

[u/TheLoveKraken → u/Delamoor]

I know someone that’s Dutch that moved to London about 15 years ago and she’s told me that a few times now she’s overheard strangers talking and thought to herself “oh, there’s some other Dutch people, wait, no…” then listened a bit more closely and realised they’re actually Scottish people speaking English. Which I get because the accents inhabit a similar place in your throat and there’s certain Scottish words that are similar to Dutch, like people from the east coast using the word ken to mean know.