His accent…it just doesn’t ring true at first so my brain looks at him and says “Well its cause he’s Danish innit he? I mean look at him. Or maybe Swedish? nah, he’s Danish and that’s why you can’t quite understand him for stretches at a time.”
Weird.
He’s 1/4 Turkish and an ex-American, for what it’s worth. He spent a few months in the US as an infant, so that probably didn’t rub off on him.
If it were really between those 2 nationalities, then it’s the former. Danish is just incomprehensible Swedish, after all.
He exaggerates his poshness on purpose, which is part of the weird accent, and he does a lot of unintelligible mumbling, also on purpose as part of his lovable buffoon image.
John Oliver’s HBO show Last Week with John Oliver discusses this about Boris Johnson.
They delved into how he seems to use this befuddled Ill prepared dolt act as a way to fight his battles and to cover for anything substantial he either does not understand or lies about.
It was an interesting segment.
