IKnowitsEclectic wrote:I personally think Daphne went from being an eccentric and interesting character to a moronic frump in later seasons but her accent would've changed in real life the longer she stayed in the US.
CatNamedRudy wrote:It will forever crack me up how sensitive you guys are to those accents. I rarely pay any attention to regional accents of Americans on TV.
Moon-Crane wrote:I don't get too fussed by accents. Homegrown tv shows can't even get the correct regional accents for their show settings a lot of the time, so what's the point of worrying about how other countries handle it.
Moon-Crane wrote:I don't get too fussed by accents. Homegrown tv shows can't even get the correct regional accents for their show settings a lot of the time, so what's the point of worrying about how other countries handle it.
BURLINGTONTIGER2 wrote:Excuse my 'Yorkshire lad' ignorance - is it a manchunian accent? The one I'm more familiar with is the whole 'Shameless' / Gallagher brother / Psycho Paul accent. I wondered if it was more Preston way? Would any manchunians answer this? Cheers.
kat wrote:BURLINGTONTIGER2 wrote:Excuse my 'Yorkshire lad' ignorance - is it a manchunian accent? The one I'm more familiar with is the whole 'Shameless' / Gallagher brother / Psycho Paul accent. I wondered if it was more Preston way? Would any manchunians answer this? Cheers.
As a Preston(ish) person who doesn't really watch Shamless there is quite a Prestonness in the the accents
CatNamedRudy wrote:It will forever crack me up how sensitive you guys are to those accents. I rarely pay any attention to regional accents of Americans on TV.
CatNamedRudy wrote:Now see I would think if you have that many different accents all over the place that you'd be easier on the accents that are used on screen. I would think it would be much more difficult to do a proper regional accent and you'd cut them some slack!
In the US, we have plenty of regional accents but for the most part, they are just that, regional. I have a very distinctive midwest accent and anyone from anywhere outside of the tri-state area (Wisconsin/Illinois/Minnesota can spot it. However, Wisconsin is about the size of England and Wisconsin itself doesn't really have any other dialects (unless you're from the south side of Milwaukee because then you sound like an uneducated yahoo even if you're not)
That being said, Roz most definitely does NOT have a Wisconsin accent and she most certainly would if she had grown up here. But it's never really bothered me that she is not nearly nasal enough to be from Wisconsin!
CatNamedRudy wrote:I wasn't trying to bait you. It just doesn't make much sense to me when there are a million different accents that you should be so critical if somebody isn't spot-on in their accent.
The only one I completely understand is the annoyance at Clive's accent because that's just a cheap attempt at recreating Dick Van Dyke's accent from Mary Poppins and it's awful!
wlan2nd wrote:just had a quick thought there, what do Americans think of Hugh Lawrie's American accent on HOUSE?
wlan2nd wrote:it also annoys that whenever American TV does "English", forgetting of course that this is a country made up of four provinces, its always a posh plums in the mouth accent, you have to at least congratulate Frasier writers for trying with Daphne's accent and to some extent, Clives, but boy is Clives the worst ive ever heard on an American show of any kind
CatNamedRudy wrote:wlan2nd wrote:just had a quick thought there, what do Americans think of Hugh Lawrie's American accent on HOUSE?
It's excellent. I had no idea he was British until I heard people on here talking about him.
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