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I find when I go to East LA (ees el ay) it takes about two hours for me to start speaking very convincing barrio-nese. That's the generalized, Hispanic language accent influenced English of my ancestors.
It comes from the hours I spent as a kid, sitting in my Tio's (Tio = uncle) kitchen eating tortillas heated on the open gas burner of the stove, while the grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins and all chatted, and teased each other in Spanglish. I remember Tio Jevi asking "Mas tortillas Mijito?"
Ah, the good old days. When happiness was buttering a slightly charred tortilla with your fingers on a formica tabletop.
It comes from the hours I spent as a kid, sitting in my Tio's (Tio = uncle) kitchen eating tortillas heated on the open gas burner of the stove, while the grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins and all chatted, and teased each other in Spanglish. I remember Tio Jevi asking "Mas tortillas Mijito?"
Ah, the good old days. When happiness was buttering a slightly charred tortilla with your fingers on a formica tabletop.
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And had they been masa just 10 or 15 minutes ago? Yummy!dfernandez77 wrote: tortillas heated on the open gas burner of the stove
Anytime, Tio!dfernandez77 wrote: "Mas tortillas Mijito?"
If you have a tortilla, you are the world's richest man. You get a new spoon with every bite!dfernandez77 wrote: Ah, the good old days. When happiness was buttering a slightly charred tortilla with your fingers on a formica tabletop.
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Let me take this thread on a slight tangent.
Name some movie/TV actors that have tried to affect an accent to do a role but end up sounding bizarre. Examples:
Tom Bosley in "Murder She Wrote"--attempt at sounding like a down east Maine cop was awful
Rob Morrow in "Quiz Show"--tries to sound like a Kennedy (which is an accent unto itself) or Boston accent, but still sounded very strange to this New Englander.
Any others?
Name some movie/TV actors that have tried to affect an accent to do a role but end up sounding bizarre. Examples:
Tom Bosley in "Murder She Wrote"--attempt at sounding like a down east Maine cop was awful
Rob Morrow in "Quiz Show"--tries to sound like a Kennedy (which is an accent unto itself) or Boston accent, but still sounded very strange to this New Englander.
Any others?
Kevin Costner in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Blech.Brewster wrote:Let me take this thread on a slight tangent.
Name some movie/TV actors that have tried to affect an accent to do a role but end up sounding bizarre. Examples:
Tom Bosley in "Murder She Wrote"--attempt at sounding like a down east Maine cop was awful
Rob Morrow in "Quiz Show"--tries to sound like a Kennedy (which is an accent unto itself) or Boston accent, but still sounded very strange to this New Englander.
Any others?
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Awful TV accents
By G*d!
Do yez remember Angel's awful Irish accent in the flashbacks in Buffy and Angel?
It took me ages to work out what was wrong. His consonants were fine. His vowels were almost acceptable.
It was the rhythm. He was speaking Irish-style words in a Yddisher rhythm slowed down to a Californian drawl. Lots of Irish people speak slow, but yer man had terrible trouble with the rhythm.
It was one of those hypnotic things. Like the chorus says in Oedipus:
"I am fascinated, yet repelled!"
Do yez remember Angel's awful Irish accent in the flashbacks in Buffy and Angel?
It took me ages to work out what was wrong. His consonants were fine. His vowels were almost acceptable.
It was the rhythm. He was speaking Irish-style words in a Yddisher rhythm slowed down to a Californian drawl. Lots of Irish people speak slow, but yer man had terrible trouble with the rhythm.
It was one of those hypnotic things. Like the chorus says in Oedipus:
"I am fascinated, yet repelled!"
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It seems like Britishers, Irish and Scots do better American accents than the other way around.
For example, Bob Hoskins in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
One of the best accents I've heard in a movie were those from Fargo.
Martin Sheen did a pretty good Virginia blueblood accent in Gettysburg.
Like many here I also start using local dialect pretty soon after being in company with locals. I get embarrased when I realize it.
For example, Bob Hoskins in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
One of the best accents I've heard in a movie were those from Fargo.
Martin Sheen did a pretty good Virginia blueblood accent in Gettysburg.
Like many here I also start using local dialect pretty soon after being in company with locals. I get embarrased when I realize it.
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Yes, though I did enjoy Alan Rickman's over-the-top performance as the Sherrif of Nottingham.djm wrote:This was so bad that Mel Brooks had enough material to be able to base an entire movie, Robinhood: Men in Tights, to spoof just this one film.jsluder wrote:Kevin Costner in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Blech.
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Facinating, though perhaps not bad - but I don't know for sure how accurate it is.
Brad Pitt's Pikey (English Gypsy) accent in Snatch.
http://www.tofutaco.com/quick/01BradPit ... aiurgh.mp3
Great film - great soundtrack.
Brad Pitt's Pikey (English Gypsy) accent in Snatch.
http://www.tofutaco.com/quick/01BradPit ... aiurgh.mp3
Great film - great soundtrack.
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yet another tangent:
picking up an accent via immersion is, I believe, analagous to picking up ornamentation, phrasing, etc. from listening to musicians. ITM is an aural tradition.
We learn to speak a language (and dialects) by hearing and working to reproduce similar sounds. The handing down of tunes works the same way.
I suspect I'm merely stating the obvious, but couldn't help but be put in mind of learning the tunes by ear as basically the same process of learning language.
picking up an accent via immersion is, I believe, analagous to picking up ornamentation, phrasing, etc. from listening to musicians. ITM is an aural tradition.
We learn to speak a language (and dialects) by hearing and working to reproduce similar sounds. The handing down of tunes works the same way.
I suspect I'm merely stating the obvious, but couldn't help but be put in mind of learning the tunes by ear as basically the same process of learning language.