# Watching Boris Johnson speak creates this weird dissonance in me head.

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 29, 2019, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-boris-johnson-speak-creates-this-weird-dissonance-in-me-head/837823 "2019-07-29T17:37:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2019, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-boris-johnson-speak-creates-this-weird-dissonance-in-me-head/837823/1 "2019-07-29T17:37:36Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2019, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-boris-johnson-speak-creates-this-weird-dissonance-in-me-head/837823/2 "2019-07-29T19:33:51Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2019, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-boris-johnson-speak-creates-this-weird-dissonance-in-me-head/837823/3 "2019-07-29T19:56:05Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![sjankis630](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ea924/32.png) [@sjankis630](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sjankis630)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2019, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-boris-johnson-speak-creates-this-weird-dissonance-in-me-head/837823/4 "2019-07-29T20:09:42Z")

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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.

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/dXyO_MC9g3k/maxresdefault.jpg "Boris Johnson: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXyO_MC9g3k)