I'm going to take a stand and say that "midwest" is not the "standard" American accent. Or at least, the Great Lakes type accent sure isn't!
Yeah, I've heard accents in Iowa, Michigan and Kansas City.
So that's my dream. That and some stuff about cigars and a tunnel.
Faith ,'Get It Done'
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bon bon - Jan 24, 2007 10:27:06 am PST #7175 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Nutty - Jan 24, 2007 10:45:17 am PST #7176 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I think originally the broadcasterese accent came from Ohio. No, I am wrong: [link] -- the answer is, a big blob that crosses the middle of the flat states. Also, there is a chart full of phonetic letters, and a fun discussion of the cot/caught thingie of which much agita in Buffistas past.
Laga - Jan 24, 2007 10:45:53 am PST #7177 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I gotta say kudos to Netflix. I moved This Film is Not Yet Rated to the top of the queue yesterday, the day it was released, and it arrived today.
§ ita § - Jan 24, 2007 11:24:17 am PST #7178 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Here's what I don't get:
It may therefore be the case that the accents spoken in this region are deemed the most "neutral" by Americans.
That and the accentless thing--does someone from Kentucky think someone who talks differently from them has no accent? Do they both have no accent, or does the Kentucky chick think she's the one with the accent?
erikaj - Jan 24, 2007 11:33:18 am PST #7179 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
I don't know... Interesting question though. But maybe it's because nobody could ever hear me talk and think "Phoenix?"
Kathy A - Jan 24, 2007 11:36:55 am PST #7180 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Stephen Colbert decided at an early age (in his pre-teens, IIRC) to replace his South Carolina accent with a General Standard one just because he was aware of the stereotype of Southern = Stupid.
erikaj - Jan 24, 2007 12:03:48 pm PST #7181 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Wow...he did amazingly at it. Except for hearing him say "I'm from SC"I never would have thought so. I hope I don't sound like he had facial surgery for a cleft palate or something.
DavidS - Jan 24, 2007 1:40:01 pm PST #7182 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Huh. (Word of the day) I was just reading an interview with Henry Selick (from 2005) and they were considering doing the Coraline movie as CG instead of stop-motion. I hate that!
But apparently even a crapass CG movie will make much more money than a very good (Were Rabbit, Corpse Bride) stop-motion.
Gris - Jan 24, 2007 1:47:02 pm PST #7183 of 10001
Hey. New board.
Based on my raising in the South, we knew we had Southern accents. At least, we knew that the standard TV accent was Not Ours, and that we were considered the "different" ones.
My personal accent was always quite "neutral" in comparison to my peers, so I was a bit surprised to discover that I actually did drawl quite a bit, something I really only figured out when I went to Boston for a summer and my friends called me Bill Clinton. Now, however, I am very rarely pegged as a Southerner - four years in California and two in NYC smoked it out completely.
Jessica - Jan 24, 2007 1:55:36 pm PST #7184 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Going to college in the midwest made my mother's Cincy accent come out of lurkdom and take over my entire vocabulary, and I could definitely hear the difference. Moving back East has mostly gotten rid of it.
But apparently even a crapass CG movie will make much more money than a very good (Were Rabbit, Corpse Bride) stop-motion.
Crapass CG movies tend to be "hipper" than stop-motion animated ones, and so will attract a larger audience of kids and teens. Stop-motion animation looks like art and rarely features the kind of lame pop culture references masquerading as jokes (yes, Shrek, I'm looking sternly at you) that today's young people seem to like. Stoopid young people.