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Post by Shrikeswind on Feb 28, 2010 16:42:29 GMT -5
This accent debate reminds me of what I hate about today's country music (admittedly, even the old Conway Twitty style bugs me, but at least it's raw country.) It's more or less rock-and-roll with a southern accent and a steel guitar. It sounds like shit beyond shit. Like the shit of shit. On crack.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2010 19:28:11 GMT -5
This accent debate reminds me of what I hate about today's country music (admittedly, even the old Conway Twitty style bugs me, but at least it's raw country.) It's more or less rock-and-roll with a southern accent and a steel guitar. It sounds like shit beyond shit. Like the shit of shit. On crack. Sounds like you're talking about a shizno. A foul-smelling animal whose excrement in turn produces its own excrement. ;D I got nothing to really add to the sexuality topic as most everybody's covered what I would say already. So as a preemptive tl;dr, I'm cool with it. Oh man, Danger Mouse! I love that show so much.
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Post by Fryguy64 on Mar 3, 2010 4:37:50 GMT -5
I got nothing to really add to the sexuality topic as most everybody's covered what I would say already. So as a preemptive tl;dr, I'm cool with it. Oh man, Danger Mouse! I love that show so much. You know? With some careful quoting, I think I can combine these two trains of thought! Danger Mouse is being dangled over the snapping jaws of a crocodilePenfold: We could have had a weekend in Brighton! Danger Mouse: I do not wish to know that, Penfold! (In case you're unfamiliar with the gay scene in Britain, the coastal town of Brighton is where it's at.)
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2010 13:57:07 GMT -5
Oh man, what an epic connection! You get a cookie for finding that one ;D
Speaking of British accents, I've been doing research for some characters of mine. I have three ladytype characters with British accents, and I've been doing research to find out the name of the accent I have in mind and where you can find them. The first one I've managed to figure out has a cockney accent and is from...hang on, forget how it's spelled...(the London Borough of) Hackney, there we go. It's a linguistic adventure!
(At first, I'd just been saying said character was from Liverpool, but research on accents local to Liverpool had yielded unfavorable results. So, Hackney.)
Now I just need to figure out two more. XD
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Post by Fryguy64 on Mar 3, 2010 19:32:30 GMT -5
Jeez, where do you want to start? Britain doesn't just have accents in major cities, but from county to town to village... Every little alcove of Britain is an accent hive. May I suggest Brummie (Birmingham) as the most annoying of all accents. In the world. Ever! You can go West country (Bristol), East Anglian (Norfolk), Essex (just... Essex), and there's a heap of London accents (multicultural hub that it is), Kentish, Manc, Yorkshire, Oxford English, Southern Counties... And lets not forget our friends the Welsh, Scots and Irish, which in turn can be further divided. And they can often be divided by class as well. Also ignore any and all stereotypes. These accents in their raw form are ugly and wonderful... just like Britain itself! <-- I'm from Hampshire. I speak with the accent found in North Hampshire and Berkshire... which is kinda halfway between London and Oxford. It's where Ricky Gervais is from...
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Post by Boo Destroyer on Mar 3, 2010 19:49:08 GMT -5
Danger Mouse is being dangled over the snapping jaws of a crocodilePenfold: We could have had a weekend in Brighton! Danger Mouse: I do not wish to know that, Penfold! Which episode was that?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2010 12:16:35 GMT -5
Jeez, where do you want to start? Britain doesn't just have accents in major cities, but from county to town to village... Every little alcove of Britain is an accent hive. May I suggest Brummie (Birmingham) as the most annoying of all accents. In the world. Ever! You can go West country (Bristol), East Anglian (Norfolk), Essex (just... Essex), and there's a heap of London accents (multicultural hub that it is), Kentish, Manc, Yorkshire, Oxford English, Southern Counties... And lets not forget our friends the Welsh, Scots and Irish, which in turn can be further divided. And they can often be divided by class as well. Also ignore any and all stereotypes. These accents in their raw form are ugly and wonderful... just like Britain itself! <-- I'm from Hampshire. I speak with the accent found in North Hampshire and Berkshire... which is kinda halfway between London and Oxford. It's where Ricky Gervais is from... Oh man, info straight from the source! Thanks for all the tips - I'll do some more research, though let's see how helpful YouTube is in this endeavor. Maybe I'd have better luck Googling... (I settled on the cockney accent for this first character (name's Timewarp), after learning Billie Piper (who played Rose in the new Dr. Who) and Michael Caine had cockney accents. So, good things abound!)
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Post by Fryguy64 on Mar 8, 2010 11:35:40 GMT -5
@bd, I have no idea. I plucked it from a quotations website. Tei the Spiffy, Michael Caine is the quintessential Cockney geeza (although he's almost a parody of himself nowadays), but Billie Piper isn't Cockney. While she just about passed for a Londoner in Doctor Who, she wasn't fooling anyone. She's actually from Swindon (closer to the West Country). The more you know!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2010 15:41:25 GMT -5
Well that's embarrassing ._.; I guess it's just a cultural difference, because I could point out a bogus Texan or New York accent if you asked. Alas.
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Post by Shrikeswind on Mar 12, 2010 1:38:02 GMT -5
Actually, southern accents are often put on more than necessary. Half my family's from Georgia, I've grown up able to compare the accent to "non-accented" speakers (rather speakers with the ambient accent.) The southern accent, when natural and not put on, is a very light alteration, so you can tell they're southern but it's not painfully obvious. My father sings a sort of country-esque style, but he has minimal accent. He was born in Georgia. Meanwhile, you have northern country singers putting on the accent in their songs. Drives me nuts since I'm so accustomed to the natural accent.
By the way, I don't have the accent. I grew up KNOWING the accent, but I talk like a Michigander.
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Post by Koopaul on Mar 13, 2010 18:37:16 GMT -5
Here's a controversial one... Maybe...
Here in America, looking back at most of our wars (except Vietnam) we saw ourselves as heroes. The good guys VS the bad guys. This is especially true for the Revolutionary War, and WWII, which many American's continue to pride ourselves in every 4th of July.
But how do other counties view us when it it come to those wars? I'm pretty sure there are only three people here from three different countries, but I'd still like to know what they think about America during the Revolutionary War and WWII.
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Post by Wildcat on Mar 13, 2010 19:44:52 GMT -5
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Post by mrmolecule on Mar 13, 2010 21:12:04 GMT -5
Hating Avatar is too mainstream, loving Avatar is too mainstream...how do I deal with it now?
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Post by TV Eye on Mar 13, 2010 23:17:24 GMT -5
@ Koopaul: The awesome thing about American war is that we usually become great allies with the countries we defeat (UK, Germany, Japan) and stay lifelong enemies with countries who we had no right messing with (Vietnam, North Korea, Iraq).
I guess when your country is full of every race imaginable, hating it means you are in some way also hating your race...and that's not cool...or something.
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Post by Fryguy64 on Mar 14, 2010 14:17:37 GMT -5
You know what? As a Briton, I can honestly tell you that the American Revolution neither bothers us, nor is it really taught in our schools. It's a thing that happened over 200 years ago. *shrug* As for WW2, we see the Americans as being the ones who didn't really join in until the rest of the world was pretty much fucked already. Did you sit on the sidelines because of political pressures? Didn't really want to get involved with something that didn't affect you? Who can say... but that kind of led to the modern idea of America being a gun-totin' country with a hero complex. And that has coloured pretty much every conflict you have been involved with ever since. And it's not a stereotype any American government has acted to shake That's the British stance anyway. It could well be different elsewhere. I wouldn't ask the French though. I don't think they like you very much
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