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Apparently, Osaka-ben is not as easy to fake as some seem to think it is. Natural-sounding Osaka-ben is completely different from the faked ones you hear on TV. To an Osaka native, they can actually tell whether or not a person is native from the way they speak the dialect. Unless that person is a really, REALLY, good faker, 9 times out of 10, a native can tell straight away just by listening.
Or so my colleague, who's an Osaka native, said. I suppose I can sorta get what this colleague of mine means, too, based on some of the natural ones I've heard.
It doesn't stop people from trying, though. And it seems people from the Kantou region find it really cute and are always goading their Osakan counterparts (loads of em working in the capital and such) into using their accents. xxD (but I must admit, the natural ones are really, really cute-sounding).
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