Media representations of rarely-heard accents

Odradek

lee4hmz

because Pepperidge FAAAAAHM remembaaahs!

Salix Babylonika

what accent is that supposed to be?

I have heard it before, but it's not quite uh

old world enough 

to be PA Deutsch.

edit: apparently it's Mainer

Odradek

Planet Jane said:

what accent is that supposed to be?

I have heard it before, but it's not quite uh

old world enough 

to be PA Deutsch.

edit: apparently it's Mainer

Yes it's a Maine accent.

Salix Babylonika

if he was a bit gruffer and was talkin' about schufly pie and dah kidlins he could maybe pass around here.

Odradek

Let us all try to understand what accent Nicholas Cage is doing in this movie.

It's like Nicholas Cage doing an impression of Homestar Runner doing an impression of Thurston Howell

Tachyon

well since we're on the subject of 'what is that accent supposed to be?' i think Dick van Dyke as Bert is canonical:

Aliroz

I tried to read Pet Sematary.

Was unable to get past the first half.  Seriously, that is a creepy book.

Hexartes

Odradek

Aliroz said:

I tried to read Pet Sematary.

Was unable to get past the first half.  Seriously, that is a creepy book.

I watched the movie, then read the book, and the movie has a character that scared the bejeezus out of me.

It's probably, thematically, Stephen King's darkest book.

Tachyon

was the character Zelda?

Odradek

Yes

Sredni Vashtar

Odradek said:

Aliroz said:

I tried to read Pet Sematary.

Was unable to get past the first half.  Seriously, that is a creepy book.

I watched the movie, then read the book, and the movie has a character that scared the bejeezus out of me.

It's probably, thematically, Stephen King's darkest book.

Michael Marshall Smith wrote an essay on Pet Sematary wherein he admits point-blank that he has read it twice and neither time actually finished it because there is a precise moment where he recognizes where the story is going and simply does not want to go down that road.

glennmagusharvey

It's funny that TF2's Spy is supposedly French but he actually has an accent that's more like an eastern European accent.

It's done by a US American voice actor IIRC.  And then The Spy tries imitating The Engineer's Texas accent, which just gets even more lulzy.

Also, The Scout has a New York accent despite being from Boston.

Yarrun XIX

Medic is supposedly supposed to speak German with a very British accent.

They never did confirm where the hell Spy's supposed to be from besides 'vaguely european'.

glennmagusharvey

Well, technically, that's in-character for Spy.

Calica

I thought spy was supposed to be French

glennmagusharvey

Calica said:

I thought spy was supposed to be French

He says he's French.

But he is The Spy.

Aliroz

Sredni Vashtar said:

Odradek said:

Aliroz said:

I tried to read Pet Sematary.

Was unable to get past the first half.  Seriously, that is a creepy book.

I watched the movie, then read the book, and the movie has a character that scared the bejeezus out of me.

It's probably, thematically, Stephen King's darkest book.

Michael Marshall Smith wrote an essay on Pet Sematary wherein he admits point-blank that he has read it twice and neither time actually finished it because there is a precise moment where he recognizes where the story is going and simply does not want to go down that road.

Do you have a link to the essay?

Odradek

Apparently it's in this book http://www.amazon.com/Horror-Another-100-Best-Books/dp/0786715774

Odradek

Odradek