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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 5 months ago

Why doesn’t Paddington, who is famously from "Darkest Peru," speak with a Spanish speaker’s accent?

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Why doesn’t Paddington, who is famously from "Darkest Peru," speak with a Spanish speaker’s accent?

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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 5 months ago

Or is he from one of those indigenous Peruvian tribes that speaks the King’s English?

Edit: A friend of mine pointed out that he’s also not a South American spectacled bear.

What the fuck, Michael Bond?

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He adopted a fake accent to distance himself from his humble and poverty-stricken roots.

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