# Actors speaking language X while playing characters speaking language Y

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-speaking-language-x-while-playing-characters-speaking-language-y/367653>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 7, 2006, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-speaking-language-x-while-playing-characters-speaking-language-y/367653 "2006-08-07T05:42:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-speaking-language-x-while-playing-characters-speaking-language-y/367653/41 "2006-08-09T20:33:49Z")

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Well **Robot Arm** , that’s what I get for skimming.

And if **Mangetout** ’s post was lifted from Wikipedia, then my compliments to whoever wrote the article.

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**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-speaking-language-x-while-playing-characters-speaking-language-y/367653/42 "2006-08-10T18:49:55Z")

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I watched the French Taunter scene from Monty Python & the Holy Grail with the French dubbing on and the FT still spoke with what could best be described as an “outrageous accent.”

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**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2006, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-speaking-language-x-while-playing-characters-speaking-language-y/367653/43 "2006-08-11T00:41:18Z")

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[QUOTE=Charlie Tan]  
No, assuming it was this [film](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072281/) (which is quite good BTW).  
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You made me click on that link, although I feared it would be the link to [this](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108333/) movie. I don’t know what would have happened if you had said that the 1993 version was quite good, but the consequences would have been dire.

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