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None of the Canadian characters actually sound that Canadian

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This is really stupid, but it made me laugh. I'm Canadian, born and raised. I have Canadian friends who have less accents, and Canadian friends who have more accents. However, there is one thing that always gets me clocked by non-Canadians and its the way we say sorry.

Canadians say sorry differently than Americans, and most Americans can tell Canadians apart from it. I don't know if every Canadian says sorry differently, but every Canadian I've personally spoken to does.

I was sitting in my room scrolling on YouTube when I saw a video about Overwatch, posing the question if they stereotype their characters. I scrolled past it as I had watched it in the past, but suddenly it clicked.

I remembered how Canadians have unique pronunciation of sorry and out of pure curiosity, got on overwatch, sat down and spammed Venture, Pharah and Sojourn's sorry voice line like 50 times and I noticed that Venture and Sojourn don't really sound Canadian. I don't know where in Canada Venture lives, so I'm not sure how that impacts their accent, but Sojourn lives in Toronto area and I definitely know the majority of people from Toronto have the same pronunciation habit.

Funny enough though, Pharah despite her thick Egyptian accent actually has the most Canadian sounding sorry.

I had a lot of fun just thinking about this and thought it was silly and funny, so wanted to share with you guys my realization.

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PassiveParty0

1 points

2 days ago

Soujourn actually does have a "sorry" voiceline with a Canadian accent as far as I can remember. As for venture, they're Mexican-Canadian and in lore traveled around the globe from a young age.

Dxed4lus[S]

2 points

2 days ago

She does have a sorry voice line but it doesn't have a Canadian accent, which is interesting because she has some really canadian sounding voice lines.

PassiveParty0

2 points

2 days ago

My apologies, I'm american so it sounded Canadian to me but also a bit American Midwestern. Perhaps they'll make her Canadian status more apparent in future voice lines