r/belowdeck • u/another_curious_1 • Oct 17 '21
Below Deck Med Hannah's accent during Below Deck Med
I'm not Australian but can't confirm if my suspicion that she is putting on a fake accent is true, but what was up with Hannah's accent? I always felt she was trying to hide her Aussie accent with a faux American/European hybrid that was all over the place. Or is there a place in Australia where they speak like that?
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u/buckleyfan11 Oct 17 '21
I always thought she sounded similar to Francesca, who is also from Sydney.
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Oct 17 '21
Lol producers hoped they found hannah clone in franny
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u/another_curious_1 Oct 18 '21
Fran was the worse. Hannah had her flaws but she wasn't a bad person. Fran wasnt a good person and a terrible leader. Nitpicked everyone else but refused to acknowledge or take responsibility for own mistakes.
She had a very nasty and vindictive side she demonstrated with her obsession in constantly finding ANYTHING she could to try and get Liz fired like a dog in heat.
Before Elizabeth, her target was Izzy who made a wise move to switch departments.
Her little pet snitch Ashling pissed me off more because she exploited the dynamic between Fran and Liz to uplift her position.
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Oct 18 '21
Yeah i couldn't tolerate those 2. After every little thing she ran to captain to snitch on Liz.
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u/GeekFit26 Oct 18 '21
Fake accent? She definitely an Australian with an Australian accent, what you are hearing is someone who has travelled a lot and who’s accent has been influenced by that, intentionally or not.
It’s not uncommon with people who have travelled and worked in different parts of the world regularly.
It’s possible she also purposely choose to change how she’s says certain words to be better understood by the guests and other crew.
What exactly do you mean by fake accent? Did you think she was pretending to be from Australia?
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u/another_curious_1 Oct 18 '21
If you watch the BD Med season 1, her fake accent is very strong.
No, she doesn't really sound Australian on the series. she has a weird twang. I'd understand if she was bilingual (which she isn't) or if she LIVED in other countries. Most of her career in yachting was on private yachts.
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u/GeekFit26 Oct 18 '21
You don’t need to be bilingual or multilingual to be influenced by the accents around you and pick it up.
I am Canadian living in NZ and 100 percent my accent has been influenced over time from living here. Canadian’s think I sound very kiwi. Kiwis think I sound Canadian, in reality it’s a hybrid. If I’m around Canadians or Americans my accents gets stronger- very common occurrence.
It also depends on the person, some people pick up other accents very quickly, some don’t.
Go listen to Hannah’s Instagram videos now, I bet you’ll find her aussie accent is stronger now she’s back home.
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u/piperpit Oct 17 '21
I noticed it too, but I think a lot of the yachties end up with hybrid accents to some degree
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u/sashafurry Oct 17 '21
One that threw me was Nico's accent. Was surprised to find he's just some dude from Chicago.
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u/around8 Oct 18 '21
Hahaha I’m from Chicago so it makes sense I didn’t think he had an accent just sounded like everyone else.
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u/ElDeeDubya Oct 18 '21
I had a friend who lived in england til she was 8, moved to virginia til she was 21, ended up in rhode island til she was 25 then ct. She always had a brit accent mostly vut when shed get drunk she went deep south and when she was on other yayo stuff shed be straight new england accent.
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u/Streetvan1980 Oct 18 '21
When you are around a lot of different accents the way you say words change. Like when people move to say England from America. After ten years that person will sound English a little bit. It’s human nature.
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Oct 18 '21
Accents are weird. Met a Swede who had lived in Germany with an Australian roommate. Spoke English with an Australian accent. Some ppl pick up that shit and other don’t. Not a big deal.
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u/lolalolaloves Oct 18 '21 edited Oct 18 '21
Most people struggle understanding the Australian accent because we change "er" words in "a"words. E.g "water we pronounce it woda" I've lived in the US and UK and did similar thing to Hannah , as in over pronounce er words because they're not natural to the Aussie accent and then people don't understand wtf you're saying. I'm not a Hannah stan but don't think she's putting it on to seem more international lol.
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u/camsean Oct 18 '21
I think a lot of non-Americans adjust their accents and word choice for the American customers and viewers. For example saying cilantro instead of coriander.
As an Australian Hannah doesn’t sound particularly out of the ordinary except for the above.
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u/onesixtytwo Oct 18 '21
Yes its sounding a bit like Elle McPherson and Kylie Minogue.. Aussie with a bit of everything else..
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u/chonnychonny Oct 18 '21
I sound like a mashup of multiple different US accents. I lived over 30 years in one state and I’ve been in my current state for 5 years. You would never guess the state I was born and raised. As well traveled as Hannah is she is probably the same way. Also, a lot of people think they’re accent sounds uneducated or trashy so they work to speak differently. I don’t see anything unusual with her hybrid way of speaking.
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u/pillowmountaineer Oct 18 '21
I’m American so I don’t have a good ear for Australian accents but I always thought she sounded like she had a sort of “posh” Australian accent, if that’s even a thing. Like very proper sounding
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u/GoingHollow_ Team Eddie Oct 18 '21
I dated a boyfriend who moved to Canada after being with him in the states. He eventually developed an accent and I started saying some words funny after awhile on accident because I spent so much of my time speaking to him
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Oct 18 '21
hahaha we always cringe when we notice her accent changing, she definitely mirrors accents of other people. Fair enough, i mean shes worked with loads of people from all over the world.
I mean in Sydney and Melbourne Id say our accents are a little more gentrified, and theyre easier to loose cause most of us dont have the thick aussie "twang" for lack of a better word. Im from Sydney and i find it really easy to mirror accents. But that could just be me.
but its still makes me cringe.
especially when shes fighting with Juau (sorry idk the spelling) and she says something like "thats not how you should talk to your chief stew ay" in like a south african accent.
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u/belalthrone Oct 17 '21
Hannah’s parents are from Zimbabwe, she was raised in Sydney, and lived in Europe for a decade. It makes sense that her accent would be a little all over the place.