Xander ,'The Killer In Me'
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.
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..."
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?
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.
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.
It was Brown Betty that made it click for me. Plus, she did The Pacific just before starting on Fringe.
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.
There used to be a North Florida accent, (possibly more than one). Grandma E has it, and my Dad (kinda) and you can still here it in small communities but not as much.
I slip into my old South-of-Pittsburgh accent when I'm tired. It's the accent that made people think I was from England when I first moved to Utah.
The central part of North Florida sounds like South Georgia, but the Panhandle is different.
Today is all sorts of clusterfuck. What is wrong with people? Obviously I don't do my job right, because one sick day, and we seem to be further behind than when I was last here. This is not actually how job security is supposed to work.
Just had a vendor presentation by people who are not as slick as they think we are. Sometimes, I think having been a vendor is one of the worst decisions I made in my career--or at least not staying a vendor. I get so twitchy during presentations, because I'm criticising them as a former presenter as well as a potential/current customer.
We had to dress business formal today, and everyone is giving me shit. Apparently I don't usually look...polished? Whatevs. At least I know my 80s style dress suit is fly. It was either that or my 70s style dress suit, because that's how I roll. For some reason, I haven't found my one true suit suit.