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Post by moira on Apr 20, 2004 23:14:21 GMT -5
Nah, I think you're right Tasia. I think America especially has a habit of stereotyping everyone. I mean, you see that in a lot of movies that we produce. i.e. Sweet Home Alabama (people from the south are automatically hicks who aren't smart), What a Girl Wants (Amanda Bynes goes to England, where her british father and girlfriend are all posh like).... It IS a sad thing to see stereotyping like that.
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Post by Emma on Apr 21, 2004 11:21:02 GMT -5
Yeah, it is sad isn't it
Brekky, is breckfast.....I thought everyone new that, oh well
Us english ein't stuck up, only a select few from a small area of the country, like parts of London, and some other countryside towns.....
It's weird online where you can't actually hear peoples accents, which makes it hard to tell...Like when I meet Jameson I was really certain he was american, just like evryone else, and He thought I was american..
Only because most of the board is from america
The harry potter books, well they arn't entially acurate, like it's only a few english charecters, but it's not as bad as some perseptions we are given, as it's writen by an english writer
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Post by Rue on Apr 21, 2004 20:32:05 GMT -5
Yeah, I agree that it's weird to read posts instead of hearing peoples' voices and accents. Emma, once I read that you're English the voice inside my head read your post in (a really bad : British accent. But after a few sentences, it wore off and the voice in my head was in American again, since that's the accent I'm always used to hearing.
I remember the first time I talked to KoNeko on the phone. I'd known she was Australian, but it didn't really sink in until I heard her accent. And she had a really hard time with my American accent, since my sister and I were talking to her on the phone at the same time, and she couldn't tell our voices apart very easily. But I know that if a person with an Australian accent who sounded anything like KoNeko were on the phone too, I'd be just as confused as she was.
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Post by Emma on Apr 22, 2004 13:10:18 GMT -5
I do the same, I imagine everyone how i would hear them, in this country, and it works that way, cause otherwise I'd end up going crazy..lol
It's weird finding out someones from a different country from what they thought they were...
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Post by KoNeko on Apr 23, 2004 1:31:39 GMT -5
Hahaha Rue, yeah I remember there was that one time that you rang my house and then my sister picked up the phone... we sound really alike, sort of how you and Gen sound really similar (but you don't think you do). So yeah.
Yeah, we say brekky too, but we don't spell it "breaky" because that is like, "Break-ee" whereas the "break" in "breakfast" (which begins to look weird if you look at the word a lot) is pronounced "brek" so Brekky is brekky.
Um, Emma, you guys get Neighbours?! How embarassing for us. Where are they up to in the season? I could tell you what happens over the following year...
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Post by Emma on Apr 23, 2004 10:45:02 GMT -5
Sound so funny,
Breaky, brekky same difference really.....
Well we are so far behind, um a few months ago neighbours was in christmas, like two months late, its weird....at the moment The scullys are in a realitly tv show, and whats her face fancies toady, and susan has just had a makeover
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Post by KoNeko on Apr 24, 2004 0:25:47 GMT -5
*grins and sips her tea* Aha! That's just when the ball gets rolling into CrazyLand... Emma, you know who Rocco is right? There's going to be a love triangle between Toadie, Rocco and Cindi and, given that Rocco is in the mafia there's like, all this dodgy stuff that goes on, and Lou goes to Hospital and Harold is all crazy and stuff...
BTW, for those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, don't worry. Neighbours is seriously this really tragic soapie that's made in Australia, and for some reason it's really popular in England. Ironically, a lot of people from Neighbours go onto successful singing careers after leaving the show by going over to England...
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Post by moira on Apr 24, 2004 0:55:31 GMT -5
*attempts to ask the question in as friendly a way as possible* The Neighbors, eh? Is the soap, uh...better than what a usual American soap would be like? If you've ever seen one, that is... *tries to hide her blondness because she doesn't really know what kind of channels an Aussie station would show*
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Post by KoNeko on Apr 24, 2004 8:32:58 GMT -5
Heh, Neighbours is pretty bad, but not as crap as like... the bold and the beautiful or something. We don't get that many American soaps over here, but I'm not really a soapie watcher in general so yeah...
*gets up* Does anyone want more tea? Or cookies?
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Post by Emma on Apr 24, 2004 9:49:45 GMT -5
Aha, well todie's nephew has just turned up and streaked across the game, and stuart has become a policeman
Has anyone heard of Eastenders, cause I've been told thats shown in other countries....
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Post by moira on Apr 24, 2004 18:03:40 GMT -5
Eastenders? Hmm...can't say I've heard of it. Although I'm not a soap watcher, either. For those who are though, tell me now, because I don't want to, um....make sarcastic comments if there's a chance I'm going to offend someone. As I've already let loose, I don't like soaps very much, other than to make fun of them...hehe.
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Post by KoNeko on Apr 25, 2004 1:39:10 GMT -5
Eastenders... I've heard of that... doesn't that launch a million singing careers as well?
Anyway... maybe we should talk about something more... intelligent and involving than merely Soapies. I don't know. My television viewing is pretty limited these days.
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Post by Rikku on Apr 25, 2004 10:30:15 GMT -5
I've heard of Eastenders....never seen it though....
I'd like some tea and cookies please.....
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Post by Emma on Apr 25, 2004 11:00:23 GMT -5
actually it does, most of the actors bring out a single for comic relif....Right laugh
Its not to bad, but I've kinda given up watching it as the moment, its has crazy story lines
Could I have a tea please, too?
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Post by Rue on Apr 25, 2004 16:38:36 GMT -5
*Rue's stomach growls really loudly...* Erhm, it's been a long time since lunch. A whole 5 hours. But could I have some tea? If I start eating anything else I know I'll just start scarfing it down...
Hey, so something weird happened to me today, and it's sort of related to us talking about accents before. I was in church, and I started talking to a couple who were next to me. They found out that I go to the college here in town, and we just talked for about a minute. Then the woman said, "So you're from England?" And I was just like... "Um, no. I'm from Pennsylvania." It was really weird. She said that it just sounded like I had an English accent, and I thanked her, and she looked sort of embarassed. My friend and I figured out that she probably thought I had an accent because I enunciate my words a lot. But still, I'm learning what sounds need to change for British Dialect in my Speech and Phonetics class right now, and all of my sounds are still completley American.
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