Other favourites include American Theatre Standard, Modern RP, Brooklyn (the Italian-American type), certain southern Welsh accents, Edinburgh Morningside, the old-style Mississippi accent, and the old upper-crustey accents of Savannah and Charleston.
My best pal and his wife were brought up barely a mile apart in Newcastle, yet have very different accents. You can almost narrow them down to postcodes (sorry, zipcodes ).
You too can larn yersel Geordie - all it takes is to live amongst them for 18 years.
Oh, and no. Tharrud be stupit.
Thanks. I couldn't say if it was Washington, TG. I don't know much about him except what he looks like in his underwear (sorry, underpants ).
And I'd only be willing to "live among" Mr. Gay UK for 18 years if he doesn't leave his clothes on the floor and is willing to wash dishes.
Anyway is there now a Hollywood accent? It seems to me actors draw out the last word in a sentence, or am I just imagining this? Anyone else ever catch this?
I lived "among the Hollywood" for almost 20 years, so I either got used to it and missed it, or it wasn't there.
Anyway is there now a Hollywood accent? It seems to me actors draw out the last word in a sentence, or am I just imagining this? Anyone else ever catch this?
I lived "among the Hollywood" for almost 20 years, so I either got used to it and missed it, or it wasn't there.
Do you have an example, Solium?
It's just something I hear from time to time while watching television, but it really sticks out to me when I do hear it. If in the future I hear an example, I'll take note and try to find a YouTube clip of it. I'm sure I've heard this on King of Queens or Seinfeld as they are my two favorite syndicated programs on television.
Do you agree with me that, for any accent, there are good speakers and bad speakers? Even among the accents I dislike such as Manchester and Liverpool there are some people who speak them well.
This one is a mixed bag or better a mixed kettle as it's big case of pot and kettle and not too well researched as he accuses British actors of an English accent. Interesting never the less.
"Do you agree with me that, for any accent, there are good speakers and bad speakers? Even among the accents I dislike such as Manchester and Liverpool there are some people who speak them well" ----------------------- Absolutely. I cannot stand hearing 'professional/plastic scousers' like Cilla Black, Jimmy Tarbuck and John Bishop make a career (and wads of money) out of mangling an accent I speak, but NEVER like them! Of course I speak with a Scouse accent, but I try to bring articulation to the emotion...like!
I take accents as I find them, but it is mostly in the speaker. The only accents I don't really like are Brummie (a rather unfortunate accent, to be sure) and Welsh, for some reason.
For me accents make the languages interesting and like WILLLIAMDMCCRUM already mentioned, I think anyone has somehow at least a little bit accent or dialect. But more importment for me is, how the person speaks, his/ her voice, clearly speaking and so on. I like to listen to actors, who had learned to play on stage, Patrick Stewart for examle, I like it, when he gives Skakespeare on the enterprise.
View days ago, when I was watching an ep of my favorit series " The oregon trail " with Rod Taylor and Charles Napier, something occures to me, in how Rod pronunciated the article " the " and I wonder, if it' s a left- over of his Aussie- accent. Charles mentioned in his bio, that Rod had conquered his accent, but sometimes lapsed back into it and for me as a german, I' ve to admit, that I even can understand Rod a little bit better, than Charles.
In this scene he gruffes at Luther ( Charles ) " I won' t asking you any questions, 'cause you ain' t gotten THE answers. " Rod pronunciases " the " like before a consonant " the car, the house " and not " thee ", like usually before a vowel.
In another scene he does it too. When Evan ( Rod ) first meets Luther on a narrow bridge, Luther won' t let him pass by and Evan yells at him " I want to get to THE other side. " He again says " the " instead of " thee " , but later on in a scene, he says, " We have a little trouble with " thee " Omaha.
The two scenes, where he says " the ", his character is lightly " angry ", perhaps the two scenes are more emotional and because that he lapse back into his accent.
Anyway, it somehow gives Rod his very own touch and I like it.
In this scene he gruffes at Luther ( Charles ) " I won' t asking you any questions, 'cause you ain' t gotten THE answers. " Rod pronunciases " the " like before a consonant " the car, the house " and not " thee ", like usually before a vowel.
In another scene he does it too. When Evan ( Rod ) first meets Luther on a narrow bridge, Luther won' t let him pass by and Evan yells at him " I want to get to THE other side. " He again says " the " instead of " thee " , but later on in a scene, he says, " We have a little trouble with " thee " Omaha.
I can't recall the scene, but it sounds as though he's trying to sound like someone from the western end of the Midwest, or from Missouri or even Texas. They all, and the 'deep south' folk say 'thuh' when they emphasise 'the'. Australians like Rod actually go the other way, and give it a real 'theeee' if it's followed by a vowel, even a sort of 'thay'. He was probably getting in character?
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