Southern accents in the movies are typically horrible. Not only are they done poorly, they are usually misplaced, as in they make everyone an aristocratic northern Virginian.
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This is a fascinating read about that very point:
“Before the Civil War, white Southeasterners did not seem to have spoken in what would be a recognizably Southern accent by modern standards. (There is some debate over this, but a 1997 study of uncovered interviews with Civil War veterans has become a major data point in Southern English history analysis, and indicates that this is true.) There were differences in the way people talked, but it wasn’t split as evenly along North/South lines as one would think. Southerners then, for example, seem to have had what’s called the “coil-curl merger,” which makes the “oy” and “er” sounds very similar. Think of calling a toilet a “terlet.” But that merger is also associated with an extremely non-Southern place: New York City and its old “Thoity-Thoid Street” accent.“
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And if I understand things correctly, it’s the British accent that diverged from the American.
Oi!
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Yes. The British accent of 400 years ago sounded mostly like a U.S. Midwest (non) accent. And no one spoke that ridiculous waffling tone of the present day aristocracy. Unless they were hearing impaired or something.
Same thing with the French. Aside from French being spoken in only 1/4 of current day France 300 years ago, the vast majority spoke a dialect that sounds like present day Quebecois. What is spoken in France today was really only spoken in Paris proper.
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I was just watching a murder porn…errr…true crime show on Oxygen called Sins of the South. I don’t know who the narrator is, but her accent is so cringy that the show is hard to watch. The funny thing is, everybody on the show–the DAs, cops, family members etc–is a southerner (obviously) and none of them talk anything like the narrator. Her accent is so over the top I can’t believe she can get through the script without laughing.
ETA, holy crap she’s fucking British!
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I just saw a commercial where Tony Hawk was shilling for a joint and muscle pain relief supplement. I think it means that I’m clinically dead.
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Wait until he tells you to invest in silver.
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Fortune favors the bold.
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I didn’t believe you so I looked it up. It’s appropriately named BioXcelerator
Fuck I am getting old.
The Aristocrats?
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Finally got around to watching Chernobyl.
Eye opening and extremely well done, but that’s the grimmest thing I’ve watched since Schindler’s List.
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I was just talking about it. When the woman was refusing to evacuate her farm and was talking with the soldiers about all the things the twentith century brought to their farm and they survived…and realizing that the fallout was worse on a whole another order of magnitude…haunting. funny, radioactivity is “haunting.”
Are you familiar with timothy morton’s “hyperobjects” concept? I think you’ll find it useful if not comforting .
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What is this scene from?
Grim is an apt description.
Chernobyl was so well done and the thing is, it didn’t have to be. Nobody anywhere was clamoring for a series on that disaster. Yet they made it and knocked it out of the park.
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I honestly have no idea.
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Chernobyl was stupidly good. For something so grim, which it was, I couldn’t stop watching.
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Jared harris was unsuprisingly outstanding. If you havent seen him in “the terror” i strongly recommend it. Its an adaptation of a Dan Simmons novel, both the book and the miniseries are well done.
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The book had me delving into the history of the actual expedition. Bizarre stuff, before Simmons put his spin on it.
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