Cassandra Posted February 11, 2020 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2020 16 hours ago, Tjack said: Yes they do. The Brits are still bitching about Dick Van Dyke’s accent in Mary Poppins. Wait til Lin Manuel Miranda’s version sinks in. On Leverage they all made fun of Sophie's accent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 12, 2020 Report Share Posted February 12, 2020 As opposed to 'Allo! 'Allo! where they make fun of everyone's accent. Bazza 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted February 12, 2020 Report Share Posted February 12, 2020 back to topic. simply Romulan ale. Hollywood probably thinks all Irish are alcoholics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 12, 2020 Report Share Posted February 12, 2020 You mean they aren't?!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Ruggels Posted February 12, 2020 Report Share Posted February 12, 2020 On 2/10/2020 at 10:50 AM, Cassandra said: I can't help but notice that no one has a problem with a theory that CBS All Access doesn't really exist. It doesn't any more, I was Vacuumed up by Showtime.[= a couple of days ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted February 12, 2020 Report Share Posted February 12, 2020 3 hours ago, Cancer said: You mean they aren't?!? I just know the redhead female ones are supposed to have crazy tempers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassandra Posted February 12, 2020 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2020 12 hours ago, Badger said: I just know the redhead female ones are supposed to have crazy tempers. This is very true. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmjalund Posted February 12, 2020 Report Share Posted February 12, 2020 It's the green blood Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anaximander Posted February 12, 2020 Report Share Posted February 12, 2020 Hard to say since I haven't seen the show, so, any symbolic speculation would be difficult unless they writing the Romulans to represent the Protestant versus Catholic tension that occurs within Ireland, but I haven't heard much on the news about any recent tensions along that route; so, I can't imagine it being enough apart the cultural imagination to feature in TV show. The fact that TV show and movies use different accents or belonging to certain cultural groups to symbolically represent certain ideas is kind of a problem. Most villains are given either German or British accents. A southern or midwestern accent is either backwards and folksy or smart and evil. Native American are always shown as being ecologically concerned and in touch with the Old Ways that strangely coincides with western New Age ideas, and so on. Whether intentional or not, I think it leads to a lot leads bad ideas in regard to what different cultures should be like. I'm Oklahoman. I'm part Indian, part white, and had a black godfather. I have a high IQ, and I am well read. I sound like a hick, but I think at the masters degree level. Yes, I am politically and socially conservative, but I am not an ignorant goose stepper about it; yet, if Hollywood were to portray me, I'd probably come out looking like a hateful racist who's not even smart enough to tie his own shoes. I suppose this is where I should admit that I like to use accents when I roleplay, but I try to be respectful about. Not all of my British are snobs, not all of my Germans are Nazis, and so on. I hope I do my accents well enough and respectfully enough that real speakers of those accents take it with good humor should they actually hear me. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted February 12, 2020 Report Share Posted February 12, 2020 @Anaximander Say hi to Thales for me?! Anaximander 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anaximander Posted February 12, 2020 Report Share Posted February 12, 2020 2 minutes ago, Bazza said: @Anaximander Say hi to Thales for me?! I've used this as my avatar in a lot of places. I don't know if anyone else has caught the connection, but you are the first person to mention anything about it. Kudos! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassandra Posted February 12, 2020 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2020 No wonder everyone says that Romulan Ale is "Magically Delicious." Anaximander 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted February 12, 2020 Report Share Posted February 12, 2020 1 hour ago, Anaximander said: Hard to say since I haven't seen the show, so, any symbolic speculation would be difficult unless they writing the Romulans to represent the Protestant versus Catholic tension that occurs within Ireland, but I haven't heard much on the news about any recent tensions along that route; so, I can't imagine it being enough apart the cultural imagination to feature in TV show. The fact that TV show and movies use different accents or belonging to certain cultural groups to symbolically represent certain ideas is kind of a problem. Most villains are given either German or British accents. A southern or midwestern accent is either backwards and folksy or smart and evil. Native American are always shown as being ecologically concerned and in touch with the Old Ways that strangely coincides with western New Age ideas, and so on. Whether intentional or not, I think it leads to a lot leads bad ideas in regard to what different cultures should be like. I'm Oklahoman. I'm part Indian, part white, and had a black godfather. I have a high IQ, and I am well read. I sound like a hick, but I think at the masters degree level. Yes, I am politically and socially conservative, but I am not an ignorant goose stepper about it; yet, if Hollywood were to portray me, I'd probably come out looking like a hateful racist who's not even smart enough to tie his own shoes. I suppose this is where I should admit that I like to use accents when I roleplay, but I try to be respectful about. Not all of my British are snobs, not all of my Germans are Nazis, and so on. I hope I do my accents well enough and respectfully enough that real speakers of those accents take it with good humor should they actually hear me. I am a pretty good mimic, but I really cant do accents, strangely (unless occasionally I am mimicking someone who has an accent, I don't know what is up with that) Anyway, living in southern VA, my mother was a switchboard operator for 20 years, and often got the comment from callers "you don't sound like you are from the South". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anaximander Posted February 12, 2020 Report Share Posted February 12, 2020 I'm kind of a natural mimic. I will sometimes take on the speech patterns of people I am talking to without meaning to. One of my best friends was originally from Minnesota. If I'd been spending much time hanging out with him, people would start thinking I was a Yankee. I was talking to an Australian once. Before long, I was matching his accent. I hope he didn't think I was mocking him. I once worked in a factory where the majority of Hispanic mixed between Mexicans and South Americans. After a while, I started sounding like I was a mix of Mexican and South American. Apparently, in my attempts to speak Spanish, I was told that I sounded like a Mexican by a Mexican, but that's all reflex. I have no idea how well I do accents when I doing them deliberately. I don't want to get wrong an have anyone thinking I was mocking after all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
assault Posted February 12, 2020 Report Share Posted February 12, 2020 22 minutes ago, Anaximander said: I'm kind of a natural mimic. I will sometimes take on the speech patterns of people I am talking to without meaning to. One of my best friends was originally from Minnesota. If I'd been spending much time hanging out with him, people would start thinking I was a Yankee. I was talking to an Australian once. Before long, I was matching his accent. I hope he didn't think I was mocking him. I do that too, and have had the same concern. I don't recall having done it to any Americans though. Back in the early 90s, I worked in Papua New Guinea, around a mix of PNG nationals and expatriates from all over the world. By the time I returned to Australia I had an accent influenced by all of these. "Incomprehensible mumble" would be the best description. I quickly discarded this, by concentrating on what I was saying. I lapsed back into something like it back in the late 90s without the external influences, but reverted to a more standard form when I started using the internet regularly. At various points, people have suggested that I have an English accent. That's not true, but my vocabulary might be what gives that impression. Although I remember one of these suggestions from my PNG period came with a geographical location - south west England - which might have been shaped by my composite mumble. These days I've probably reverted to my original accent - somewhere between "Standard Australian" and "Broad Australian". The former is the stronger element, while the latter comes from my provincial city background. I tend to be fairly neutral in terms of regional dialect terms - they were the first things I dropped when I went to university in the early 80s. And I've still got the "over-educated weirdo" thing going on with my vocabulary. But I'm not doing that here at the moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted February 12, 2020 Report Share Posted February 12, 2020 I'm originally from Maine, but spent elementary school years in Central Florida, before moving to Nevada several decades ago. My accent has blended into a (mostly) Western accent, though I have been mistaken as Canadian when traveling. I am very bad at reproducing accents, and rarely try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted February 13, 2020 Report Share Posted February 13, 2020 5 hours ago, Ternaugh said: I'm originally from Maine, but spent elementary school years in Central Florida, before moving to Nevada several decades ago. My accent has blended into a (mostly) Western accent, though I have been mistaken as Canadian when traveling. I am very bad at reproducing accents, and rarely try. Well, with the accent, I guess for me, I can mimic a phrase or words that I have heard with the accent, but speaking an original dialogue in that accent is very hit and miss. My best mimics are Gollum and the English voice acting back in the day of DBZ's Fat Majin Buu. And yes, I can have them conversing with each other. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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