I'm sitting here weighing the idea that you could get rid of a lot of what's toxic about the word "working-class" (as well as misleading, hypocritical, inconsistent, etc.) in ordinary discourse by just committing to saying "poor" instead
I mean I think the thing is even in the UK, it's obviously not cool anymore to be posh and even Eton boys will try to put a little London street spin on their accent
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I was thinking about this when they were talking about how they made Finn an American and Rey a Brit in Star Wars because John Boyega was the more experienced actor and could fake the accent better
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Daisy Ridley *does* do a different accent as Rey but only in the sense that she speaks "movie RP" (not quite as posh as the Queen, but very "proper") while her everyday accent has a few more glottal stops But I think that's code-switching most Brits of her class do all the time
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