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Media representations of rarely-heard accents

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  • lee4hmzlee4hmz
    ⚠ THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS
    because Pepperidge FAAAAAHM remembaaahs!
  • Salix BabylonikaSalix Babylonika
    edited 2015-06-24 19:24:44
    https://i.imgur.com/IoGc2jA.jpg
    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
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
    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 BabylonikaSalix Babylonika
    https://i.imgur.com/IoGc2jA.jpg
    if he was a bit gruffer and was talkin' about schufly pie and dah kidlins he could maybe pass around here.
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
    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


  • TachyonTachyon
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    well since we're on the subject of 'what is that accent supposed to be?' i think Dick van Dyke as Bert is canonical:


  • AlirozAliroz
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    I tried to read Pet Sematary.

    Was unable to get past the first half.  Seriously, that is a creepy book.
  • HexartesHexartes
    edited 2015-06-24 21:50:50
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
    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.
  • TachyonTachyon
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    was the character Zelda?
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
    Yes
  • Sredni VashtarSredni Vashtar
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    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.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    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 XIXYarrun XIX
    Whores! we want "poems that kill."
    Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
    guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
    and take their weapons leaving them dead
    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'.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Well, technically, that's in-character for Spy.
  • CalicaCalica
    Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.
    I thought spy was supposed to be French
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    edited 2015-08-21 20:32:03
    Calica said:

    I thought spy was supposed to be French

    He says he's French.

    But he is The Spy.
  • AlirozAliroz
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    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?
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
    Apparently it's in this book http://www.amazon.com/Horror-Another-100-Best-Books/dp/0786715774
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
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