Question for Southerners

[indeedido]

That was an awful accent. Even worse than Liam Neeson in Next of Kin. As a southern gentleman, I am offended I say I am offended.

[Seshmeister]

Neeson has previous, doing Rob Roy as an Irishman.

Similar to Connery doing Russian and Irish just as Scottish but I think maybe it's better to just not try at all rather than make a mess of it.

[jhale667]

As a southern gentleman, I am offended I say I am offended.

[chefcraig]

Similar to Connery doing Russian and Irish just as Scottish but I think maybe it's better to just not try at all rather than make a mess of it.

You mean like in Valkyrie, where everybody spoke in a British accent, including the Germans?

[Seshmeister]

Apart from Tom Cruise!

Another thing is that it's funny but for some reason you can't have Romans speaking in American accents, it has to be English.

Funniest example of this in movie history has to be John Wayne as the centurion at the crucifixion in 'The greatest story ever told'.

9:26 - 'Trueeely this maan was the son of god' = Comedy Gold! :D

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[chefcraig]

Right up there with Edward G. Robinson in The Ten Commandments: "Where's your Messiah now?"

[kwame k]

Let's just get this post out of the way

[standin]

Story time!
When I first went north for school, oh around about 15 or so years old, the first thing the school system did was put me in speech class to remove some of my accent. I remember that first year north. One of the events that stood out was I baffled that it was cold. Worse of, I had only winter clothes in winter colors. I was standing at my closet wondering what to do. It was cold but all my sweaters where in fall colors and it was spring out. So naturally, I called the radio station. After all they were the one's telling me it was cold out, maybe the weather man could explain what to do when it was cold during the spring time. They were quite pleased to help. For the rest of the season, we would pick my clothes. I did not mind so much that every one went on about my accent, I was grateful that we were able to help me choose warm clothes to wear. Come about the next season my accent was all but erased. When I got home back to the south, I was put back in speech class to learn a proper southern dialect. This time with no country twang. There is a difference, you know, between a proper southern dialect and a low southern dialect.

I have long since lost all those dialects. When I had to relearn English, I was taught English through a computer, for quite some time after 2004, I was told to my dismay, "You sound like a computer!" I suppose I did sound like a computer. However, it did not take long for me to find a native speech again. I have noticed while around the plain folk, I have found one of my most treasured dialects, the dialect of the plain folk. I enjoy the clear proper English speech with the clear German patterns.

Oral control is quite a thing to enjoy, yes?

[VAiN]

Where are you from that it's so important to sound like everyone else? Around here I'm just happy if the person I'm talking to actually speaks English.

[standin]

Where are you from that it's so important to sound like everyone else? Around here I'm just happy if the person I'm talking to actually speaks English.

I can't imagine that. I am from the south. The only time I was subject to non-English life in the south was during my time with the Russians. What have you experienced?

[ashstralia]

what was that tony curtis movie with the 'yonder is da land of my faddah' line? classic.