Accent
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EnglishST — 17 years ago(April 20, 2008 08:47 AM)
"it isn't a southern accent at all. it's just a normal accent that any normal person could have" define the word normal accent? theres no such thing of a normal accent in England, England is made up of many accents, do your research on England before you start talking about it
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Mymessages74 — 19 years ago(September 26, 2006 05:39 PM)
I'm not bothered what type of accent she originally had - which was a perfectly fine accent. The thing that irritates me is that she is putting on a false one now. She never spoke like that before. It's ridiculous to expect viewers to believe that you lose your accent so quickly. Those that do are just pathetic.
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Mymessages74 — 19 years ago(November 01, 2006 09:59 AM)
Well she had her original accent until very recently and it seems she has decided to suddenly lose it. I know people who've moved to other countries and still have their original accent 40 or more years later. People tend to only lose their accents if they are very young when they move areas/countries etc. I could understand the odd word changing but accent change is a gradual thing - not an "overnight" event. It would appear she is being pretentious.
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Garfunkul — 19 years ago(March 20, 2007 07:08 PM)
yeah, here in the US, a lot of accents get lumped into "Southern", what you would hear from a stereotypical redneck on TV, or "midwestern" - people from the north midwest who carry on the accent from their scandinavian roots (i've got it, doontcha know) - but there are really a lot of smaller sub-accents within them, you just have to be around them more to tell.
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huitzilipochtli — 19 years ago(April 07, 2007 09:11 AM)
I think around the Chicago area resides the most plain-jane US American you'll hear; that, and parts of the west coast. The north midwest seems to have that Scandinavian/Germanic carry-over (sometimes even with that singsong like attribute acquired from Norse/Swedish). I can spot Finlanders because they sound like they're from Hungary. Then you've got your east coast and all it's little differences (Boston: bar = "baah"). And, of course, southern is its own animal. I've never been to the southern US, but there is definitely a difference between say Texas and Georgia just watching TV.
I usually can tell what country someone is from when they speak English, but when it comes to Great Britain, I have only two accent classifications that I can tell apart: thick or thin. -
sangos_counterpart — 18 years ago(June 09, 2007 12:04 PM)
Well, while we're on the topic of Anna Friel's accents I think she did a really great American accent for Pushing Daisies, even though I've only seen the ABC previews. I was surprised when I read in a review that her accent is fake, and that she is actually British.
Fun and Failure both start out the same way. Arrested Development. -
jorr1 — 18 years ago(October 03, 2007 07:25 PM)
Accents aren't constant. As people move around and live in different areas they change. I grew up in Scotland but have lived in the US for some time, my accent isn't quite Scottish and isn't quite American. Somewhere in the middle I guess.
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lee3171 — 18 years ago(October 05, 2007 07:09 AM)
I think its really interesting how this thread started from Anna Friel's accent (and how it has changed from her living in the south of england and the numerous roles she has taken as part of her career) to a general thread about accents. I can appreciate the view that those who live in a region can notice subtle differences in that accent when people either move away and then come back or they move away and don't come back (Sheena Easton's interesting accent of Scottish and American comes to mind).
On a personal note as I am from the next town to AF, I am from Oldham, 4 miles from AF's hometown of Rochdale, I would have prefered her to keep her regional accent but I understand that as a consequence of her career and the fact that she now lives in the south of england her accent has changed. Anna is a fine looking woman but has lost the uniqueness that her accent brought her which British audiences first saw in Brookside, but maybe as the world is becoming more generic (i.e. more American) the loss of regional accents is a consequence. -
iloveyoubunches — 18 years ago(October 19, 2007 01:35 PM)
yeah hi um apdozier where are you from?
i realized now that i'm typing that it sounded immensly offensive but i promise it's not. i only said it bc of what you posted and i want to make a remark about it of course if your from where i don't happen to think your from them i'll feel like an asswhole AND an idiot. so yeah. where are you from/do you live?
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