So who’s watching The Fall with Gillian Anderson?
I’m so loving the Irish accent in the show. The Irish intonation makes everybody sound slightly befuddled no matter what they say. I’d so love to speak with this accent. I’d actually love to speak with any accent that is not my Russian one. That’s the ugliest accent in English.
I knew you’d like the show. I love the accents, too.
Another recommendation after you’re done with this: Borgen. It’s not streaming anywhere so you’ll have to find alternate sources, but I promise you it’ll be worth it. The lead actress is unbelievably good.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borgen_%28TV_series%29
Borgen is a Danish one-hour political drama television series. It tells the story of charismatic politician Birgitte Nyborg who unexpectedly becomes the first female Prime Minister of Denmark. “Borgen” (“the Castle”) is the nickname of Christiansborg Palace, which houses all three of Denmark’s branches of government: the Parliament, the Prime Minister’s Office and the Supreme Court.
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Second (and third and fourth) the Borgen recommendation.
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Oh, I miss agent Scully!
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Oh,I miss agent Scully!
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I think you’re selling your accent short, Clarissa.
I personally find a female Eastern European accent rather sexy, but that’s me.
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This is very kind. But I still don’t like my accent. 🙂
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Heh. Perhaps it will relieve you to know that I am currently participating in a united effort of the nations of the world to create a worse English accent.
Before I came to England, my English was excellent if not exquisite. Nau I spik wairhouz inglish.
I will notify you when the preparations are complete and our group is ready to unleash this grave menace on the world. No one will notice your deep l’s and v’s in place of w’s then!
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Thank you, man! You are doing a huge service to the world in general and me in particular. 🙂
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I think Birmingham and Manchester already have you beat… they certain set the bar very, very high.
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I’ll see your Brummie and raise you Cornish … 🙂
[oh, you thought the “pirate accent” was a total put-on, did you …] 🙂
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Back when I visited Birmingham, I met a person from Wales there. Didn’t understand a single word he said. It was very embarrassing.
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Ar ôl gwrando ar Cymraeg am gyfnod you simply think you’re hallucinating those words anyway …
🙂
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NUHBUDDY EXPECTZ THUH AMURRIKIN ENGLIZH INQUIZITION 🙂
I find it somewhat strange though that things that need to be “poshed up” a bit sometimes have an American appellation attached to them, in addition to some other things that tend to be “levelled down”.
But of course we here can’t be bovvered with this impending disaster because the kids are already speaking some of it anyway …
“NO MUM, IT’S SODA!”
“IT’S FIZZY DRINK!”
🙂
I rode past a “bike CENTER” a few days ago in Somerset and was momentarily stunned by the presence of American English in the shop’s name …
[has much fun here putting emphasis on all of those Zeds, BTW] 🙂
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“I find it somewhat strange though that things that need to be “poshed up” a bit sometimes have an American appellation attached to them”
And I think fizzy drink sounds so much better than soda because soda means sodium bicarbonate in my language and is decidedly unappetizing.
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Does this happen to you too? One day you hear yourself speaking English and you think your accent is not that bad, and the next day you can only hear your native language when spaking English?
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All the time! I never know what will come out every time I open my mouth. It’s always a surprise to hear myself speak because sometimes it would be this beautiful, “clean” English but then sometimes it would be a horrible heavy Russian accent that many people don’t even understand.
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Exactly. I wonder whether on some days my pronunciation is better or I am only more self-aware. Ohhh… I hope it is the pronunciation. Otherwise I shall keep my mouth shut.
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As far as I can tell that’s just an occupational hazard of living in a foreign language environment, some days the brain and/or brain to mouth systems that support pronunciation or syntax just work better than others.
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