I truly am obsessed with how Knives Out was like. Hello Daniel Craig, man who has spent the past two decades of his career being alternately beaten up and objectified playing an action hero with no personality. Would you like to please put on a shirt and an incomprehensible vaguely Texan accent and flex your character acting dark comedy muscles as well as your pecs for a while. And he’s like BOY WOULD I and they made a work of art. Also love that they put Chris Evans in sweaters. Get your beefcakes then dress them nice make them soft and give them some bonkers character work to do it’s what cinema needs more of
I love that several people have responded to this with “op I forgive you cause you’re Scottish but that’s not a Texan accent” which is fair thank you I appreciate it but no two people have agreed on what accent it is which is also Absolutely fair and hilarious as a reaction to this film
Cannot stress enough that I do not know what the fuck a foghorn leghorn is but literally a hundred people have said it to me so far so I’m assuming it’s important to, like, Americans
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#accents #I didn’t actually laugh aloud but it still amused me enough to reblog
i hope rey is revealed to be obi wan’s granddaughter not because i have strong feelings about it but because if she is that seems to imply that in the star wars universe british accents are genetic
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#Rey’s voice subtly bothered me and eventually I figured out why: #she sounds *posh* #like‚ people in a galaxy far far away having British accents sure why not #not really any weirder than having them speak with American accents #but it should not be a *posh* British accent #Rey is extremely not posh #portraying her voice like this is a *terrible* translation of the Galactic Basic #Star Wars #accents
justice-turtle said: I couldn’t understand enough of the words to venture an opinion on the accent (probably a combination of poor audio quality and my known auditory processing troubles), but knowing you’re interested in the weird ways brains work, it might be relevant to note that the *tune* was immediately and obviously Irish to me (having scrolled down and seen that it’s Phil Collins, that makes sense), and that once I caught the line “we came from the north and we came from the south”, my brain decided (cont’d)
justice-turtle said: (cont’d) decided that was an extremely Canadian-folk-specific line and therefore you must be the singer. (I have no idea what song this is and therefore whether that assessment is true, though I assume I could google the line.) I don’t know if *you* actually sounded more Canadian once I decided that or whether my brain was just doing brain shit, but I’d suspect the latter on principle.
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#(February 2018) #conversational aglets #replies #is the blue I see the same as the blue you see #accents #home of the brave #our home and cherished land #(it is not a folk song: he wrote it himself)
but me and my sister both live in yorkshire (I live in North and she lives in South) and she has to talk slowly when she comes to the north because no-one can understand a word she says, so there’s deviations of accents within accents.
Spread out all over the fucking place but more prevalent in the South: RP (which is what Murricans think of as a “British Accent” even though it’s a minority of the English that have it let alone the British)
I’ve lived in the UK for more than half my life, certainly my entire adult life, and I still can’t successfully ID all the accents there are here. I’m sometimes mortifyingly wrong, but less so now.
There’s way more than two Welsh accents. How can you categorize it as ‘Welsh’ or ‘Cardiff’? The accent in Caernarfon is completely different to the accent in Wrexham, so that’s at least four. Then the accent of Ceredigion is different again. Five. The Welsh hill farming accent is different to the Welsh mining accent (North/South divide.) People in Penmaenmawr sound different to people in Llanfairfechan and there’s a 7 minute drive between them.
Are there actually people who honestly believe there is only one British accent, or is that a myth? Whenever I see people claim Americans think there’s only one, they always use the existence of the phrase “British accent” as their evidence.
Yes, I say “British accent”. Thing is, it’s not that I don’t know there are a zillion different accents in Britain. It’s that I don’t know what they’re called, and so am forced to use “British accent” as an umbrella term because I don’t have the words to describe them more specifically except perhaps by comparison (“it was a Dave-Lister-y sort of voice*”).
*And even having heard that this is a Liverpool accent, I would still describe it by comparison if I could possibly get away with it. I don’t entirely trust my source on where Lister’s accent is from, nor do I trust Liverpool to have only one accent.
I think it’s less that people really don’t know that there’s more than one British accent, and more that very often “British Accent” is used to mean Received Pronunciation (in my TV and real-life experience that’s what a majority of people will do when required to fake a British accent), which is kind of a sore point anyway because in some British circles RP is still considered “better” than other accents and people with regional accents already feel marginalised?
And yup, Lister definitely has a Scouse (Liverpool) accent, although you’re right that Liverpool accents can vary a bit!
Okay, we were talking and got curious, so I’m going to post this sample and ask for your input.
From what you can hear in this recording, where do you think this person is from?
(Apologies for poor audio quality.)
@injygo replied: ‘instinctively, I think “lives in Minnesota but family is Irish”’
Huh, interesting. That is not any of the answers I was expecting.
(Everyone else: please submit a guess first before reading below the cut, as there are spoilers.)
Before seeing your response, I’d have phrased the real answer as “southern New Jersey (far enough south not to be Joisey), moved to Ontario but late enough not to have much effect, subconsciously overcorrecting her accent and ending up more British than the British guy whose song she is singing”. (Although to be fair, British guy is probably at least somewhat attempting to sound American, so that gets complicated. And everyone sounds American if I listen to them long enough†, so I’m likely to underestimate how British Phil Collins sounds anyway.)
(The “we” in “we were talking” is me and my, ah, *friend*, as in “so my, ah, *friend* is having this problem…”. I just wanted to make it slightly less obvious that it was me, to encourage people not to factor in stuff they already know about me when deciding.)
What does a Minnesota accent even sound like? *looks up some examples*
Apparently it’s similar to “rural Canadian”. Hmm. Possibly Ontario has had more influence on my voice than I thought? I wonder if my brain is doing the “this voice is familiar and therefore normal and therefore American” trick to its own sound output.
†I think my brain gets like “ah, this voice is familiar, so therefore normal”, but without changing its definition of what “normal” means.
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#replies #accents #is the blue I see the same as the blue you see #(the following category tags were added retroactively:) #home of the brave #our home and cherished land
Because so many people were being Wrong On The Internet, I decided to upload an accent sample which uses all the relevant vowels in the manner G-d intended.
Transcript: If I err on the side of caution, then I can’t marry either Mary or Kerry.
My reaction went something like this:
“So, brain, was any of that weird?”
Weird is such a subjective term.
“Was it different from how we would say it?”
Well, her “can’t” [here pronounced in an attempt to mimic it] is all British…
“I meant the other bits. Were they different?”
The difference is insignificant.
“So there was a difference?”
I don’t know. The difference is insignificant.
English plays so fast and loose with vowels that there’s no point paying attention to fine distinctions. We might not even use consistent vowels for any of those words ourself; I honestly don’t know.
“No wonder you’re so terrible with accents.”
Yes.
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#language #reply via reblog #in which Brin somehow manages to be among the most singlet people she knows #(to be fair keeping the original dialogue format rather overstates the extent to which the two are separate entities) #accents
no one is more amused by massachusetts accents than people from massachusetts
In case anyone thinks that this is a joke or a ‘shop or something, this sign was put up in multiple places throughout Massachusetts. People still didn’t use their blinkers but they did chuckle as they flipped the bird and cut across 4 lanes to exit.
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#ah Massachusetts #my home away from home #(don’t forget the part where they drive in the breakdown lane)
Brinens and Things 