Zoe: Next time we smuggle stock, let's make it something smaller. Wash: Yeah, we should start dealing in those black-market beagles.

'Safe'


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.


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.


askye - Feb 01, 2012 12:37:31 pm PST #19601 of 30001
Thrive to spite them

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.


Connie Neil - Feb 01, 2012 12:40:05 pm PST #19602 of 30001
brillig

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.


Ginger - Feb 01, 2012 12:42:32 pm PST #19603 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

The central part of North Florida sounds like South Georgia, but the Panhandle is different.


§ ita § - Feb 01, 2012 12:48:47 pm PST #19604 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

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.


Strix - Feb 01, 2012 12:49:43 pm PST #19605 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

I always think I have a very flat, Midwestern anchorperson type of accent, until I go somewhere else, and someone thinks I'm southern, and I'm all "WHA?? You don't even KNOW."

But I pick up accents pretty easily, except I can't do a good Aussie accent to save my life. I came back from 6 months in London with a pretty decent Brit tinge, and I still can't rid myself of "bloody" and "bugger."

Which was nice in the American classroom, because I could still cuss and not be outed for it. (I would also cuss in French & German, but too many of my students knew Spanish to get away with that one.)

And now I can cuss at work all day long AND IT'S FUCKING GREAT!