Why do dying accents make me sad? Maybe because it's like the past slipping away
It's weird just watching old movies or listening to old radio programs: the accents even just sixty years ago were so different!
I know, world in peril and we have to work together. This is my last office romance, I'll tell you that.
Buffy ,'End of Days'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Consuela - Feb 01, 2012 10:12:51 am PST #19591 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Sue - Feb 01, 2012 10:19:14 am PST #19592 of 30001
hip deep in pie
Should I do that? Should I just sigh, accept it's something the kidlings do these days, and just remove the tags as they show up?
I would just block him.
Jessica - Feb 01, 2012 10:41:27 am PST #19593 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
bob and Eli article on hairpin!
Damnit, now I'm down this rabbit hole too! So much for work...
Allyson - Feb 01, 2012 10:42:14 am PST #19594 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Well, no one uses that transatlantic accent anymore but you can hear it in films of the 1940s and any film taking place in the 30s and 40s. Kelsay Grammer has a sort of bastardized version of it going on, I guess.
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 01, 2012 10:45:06 am PST #19595 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
It amuses me when people underestimate me because of my mild Southern accent. It makes their inevitable defeat funnier.
It amuses me when people find out I'm from Arkansas and struggle to find a polite way to say "But you don't sound like an ignorant hillbilly..."
Burrell - Feb 01, 2012 11:01:41 am PST #19596 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Should I just sigh, accept it's something the kidlings do these days, and just remove the tags as they show up?
Ugh, that's a pisser. He's a fan, I assume?
aurelia - Feb 01, 2012 11:16:47 am PST #19597 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Well, no one uses that transatlantic accent anymore but you can hear it in films of the 1940s and any film taking place in the 30s and 40s.
It took me awhile to realize this is what I was hearing in Anna Torv's American accent.
Sophia Brooks - Feb 01, 2012 11:21:21 am PST #19598 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
It took me awhile to realize this is what I was hearing in Anna Torv's American accent.
OH-- that is it. I thought she sounded oddly German.
aurelia - Feb 01, 2012 11:33:49 am PST #19599 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
It was Brown Betty that made it click for me. Plus, she did The Pacific just before starting on Fringe.
Ginger - Feb 01, 2012 12:33:31 pm PST #19600 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I use the discreet refined "r" in February most of the time, but sometimes it escapes.
Thirty years ago, there were at least four distinct Georgia accents, roughly defined as North Georgia mountains, Atlanta, Central Georgia and South Georgia. I still hear them in older people, but they're largely disappearing into American standard.