Accented

Aegis · Post by **Aegis** » Thu Aug 30, 2001 5:41 am

For once, I don't follow you Georgi...

Georgi · Post by **Georgi** » Thu Aug 30, 2001 5:49 am

Originally posted by Aegis:
For once, I don't follow you Georgi...

At last!

There's a scene in ID when the good old US of A have come up with a plan and they're telling the rest of the world's military, and the British soldiers have the most appaling accent ever...

Aegis · Post by **Aegis** » Thu Aug 30, 2001 5:53 am

Oh yeah! I remember now! It's was a bad accent! Oh well, at least you got mentioned! I jsut like to think that us Canadians found a way to stop the aliens first, and didn't share with the world!

(By the way, I'm back on your trail!

)

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Thu Aug 30, 2001 5:56 am

I hate the way in ID that only America could stop the Aliens, no other country had a hope

That is such a load of crap

Georgi · Post by **Georgi** » Thu Aug 30, 2001 5:58 am

@Sleep that and every other Hollywood blockbuster...

Aegis · Post by **Aegis** » Thu Aug 30, 2001 5:59 am

Man, I hate how fake Hollywood is...

(Who can get this one? Bonus points for whoever does!)

Rob-hin · Post by **Rob-hin** » Thu Aug 30, 2001 6:02 am

Originally posted by Mr Sleep:
I hate the way in ID that only America could stop the Aliens, no other country had a hope That is such a load of crap

I wanted top say this in the "what do you hate about the US?" post, but you beat me to the punsch...

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Thu Aug 30, 2001 6:02 am

Originally posted by Georgi:
@Sleep that and every other Hollywood blockbuster...

LOL true, unfortunately the US would probably have sent Dubbyah up to reason with them, that would have been a laugh

T'lainya · Post by **T'lainya** » Thu Aug 30, 2001 6:43 am

But Sleep that way they think all humans are completely disconnected from reality

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Thu Aug 30, 2001 6:58 am

Originally posted by T'lainya:
But Sleep that way they think all humans are completely disconnected from reality

LOL

Gruntboy · Post by **Gruntboy** » Thu Aug 30, 2001 7:09 am

Chocks away old bean, toodle pips over and out, roger Charlie.

Squawmble, Squawmble, Squawmble!

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Thu Aug 30, 2001 7:33 am

I like all accents

My favorites are:

For native English speakers: North West Scottish Highland and Island accents, Aberdeen, Donegal (Ireland), Wellington (NZ)

Foreign accents: Russian, especially the accent that "proper Russian speakers" have. (Ie the accent people from the cities in Western Russia have. I love the accent my friends from Moscow and St Petersburg have when they speak English

)

And, forgive me all English, but I really like the French accent also

run for cover

Gruntboy · Post by **Gruntboy** » Thu Aug 30, 2001 7:43 am

Aims multiple barreled, large calibre, heavy payload, rapid firing weapon at Miss Elegans...

Vehemence · Post by **Vehemence** » Thu Aug 30, 2001 8:02 am

Originally posted by Gruntboy:
Aims multiple barreled, large calibre, heavy payload, rapid firing weapon at Miss Elegans...

That's Mrs Elegans

Georgi, Sleep, Aegis: That has got to be the one thing that bugs me the most about Americans is there complete and total bullsh*t perception that they are the saviours of the universe.

Not all of them, but a great deal of them... generally focused around the holywood sector

fable · Post by **fable** » Thu Aug 30, 2001 8:12 am

Originally posted by C Elegans:
And, forgive me all English, but I really like the French accent also
run for cover

Whenever my wife gets in a stubborn mood and sticks out her chin (it's a family trait; four generations back, they all came from Bavaria, sad to say), I start singing in a mock-Maurice Chevalier voice. It's because I've told her she juts her chin just like Chevalier at those moments.

The accent's not too bad, and it actually came in handy once, about thirty years ago. I was in college, but spending a semester overseas in Amsterdam; and a bunch of us (all US students) went to Paris one weekend. Five of us, good friends, were eating a meal of bread, cheese, and salami on the lawns of Versailles. (What would Louis XIV have thought!) I was approached by a girl about my age, who asked, "Do you speak English?" very slowly.

This was a big mistake. I answered in my proto-Chevalier accent, "But ov course! 'Ow can I hep yoou?" She had a question or two about Versailles, and I answered to the best of my ability. Then, after she thanked me profusely, I replied, "Eeet eees no problem. Ah am alwez 'appy to 'ep out Amerricans. You know, because, Ah am Amerrican, too."

At that, my friends burst out in laughter. She just looked confused. Chaos was increased in the universe, and I felt good.

Gruntboy · Post by **Gruntboy** » Thu Aug 30, 2001 8:15 am

@Veh, she'll always be *Miss* Elegans to me.

ThorinOakensfield · Post by **ThorinOakensfield** » Thu Aug 30, 2001 8:35 am

Originally posted by Aegis:
Man, I hate how fake Hollywood is...

(Who can get this one? Bonus points for whoever does!)

Jay and Silent Bob strike back?

Sailor Saturn · Post by **Sailor Saturn** » Thu Aug 30, 2001 12:07 pm

Originally posted by fable:
Whenever my wife gets in a stubborn mood and sticks out her chin (it's a family trait; four generations back, they all came from Bavaria, sad to say), I start singing in a mock-Maurice Chevalier voice. It's because I've told her she juts her chin just like Chevalier at those moments.

The accent's not too bad, and it actually came in handy once, about thirty years ago. I was in college, but spending a semester overseas in Amsterdam; and a bunch of us (all US students) went to Paris one weekend. Five of us, good friends, were eating a meal of bread, cheese, and salami on the lawns of Versailles. (What would Louis XIV have thought!) I was approached by a girl about my age, who asked, "Do you speak English?" very slowly.

This was a big mistake. I answered in my proto-Chevalier accent, "But ov course! 'Ow can I hep yoou?" She had a question or two about Versailles, and I answered to the best of my ability. Then, after she thanked me profusely, I replied, "Eeet eees no problem. Ah am alwez 'appy to 'ep out Amerricans. You know, because, Ah am Amerrican, too."

At that, my friends burst out in laughter. She just looked confused. Chaos was increased in the universe, and I felt good.

<southern belle accent>How crude and unrefined can one be, playing with that poor innocent girls mind.</southern belle accent>

((*someone in the background mutters* Hypocrite))

*grr* *slaps can be heard* Actually, I have used accents for such purposes many times. I've made several people think I'm British.

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Thu Aug 30, 2001 12:13 pm

Originally posted by Sailor Saturn:
<southern belle accent>How crude and unrefined can one be, playing with that poor innocent girls mind.</southern belle accent>

((*someone in the background mutters* Hypocrite))

*grr* *slaps can be heard* Actually, I have used accents for such purposes many times. I've made several people think I'm British.

Well i can mimic most accents, i mostly struggle with Dutch and South African, they are very hard to mimic.

fable · Post by **fable** » Thu Aug 30, 2001 12:23 pm

Originally posted by Sailor Saturn:
<southern belle accent>How crude and unrefined can one be, playing with that poor innocent girls mind.</southern belle accent>

Waah, hush now, Miss Chalat, or Ah'll call the Kuhnul and have him spank bo'th yo' mint juulips.

Mah, it's naahce to be baak among the maagnooolyas, agin...

*saunters away, tripping over a sword sheath*