Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
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Plenty of Yanks playing Brits and doing pretty well. And you know most of those Watcher's Council folks, including Harris Yulin, were American.
Harris Yulin doesn't sound even remotely British to my ears. I had explained him to myself as a Yank addition to the COW.
A lot of Brits trying to do American accents or vice versa seem to get stuck somewhere in the middle of the pond, neither one thing nor the other. And while we're talking about Spike's bad American, that sounds like mock-Somerset to me, with the very extended R and odd vowels.
A lot of Brits trying to do American accents or vice versa seem to get stuck somewhere in the middle of the pond, neither one thing nor the other.
Heh, I wonder how I may sound (on the rare occasions I get to speak English, that is). I know it's not 'Israeli', and mostly people can't 'place' me. However, they're usually not American/Brits/Australian, but people whose second language is English, so they don't have the trained ears of most of you guys.
I wonder how I may sound
wonders how expensive it would be to speak to Nilly on the phone and find out
Harris Yulin doesn't sound even remotely British to my ears. I had explained him to myself as a Yank addition to the COW.
Is he the guy who played Quentin Travers? Because me too.
Oh, and I've never heard an American do a remotely credible Australian accent.
Actually, one of the reasons I've seen put forward for England currently being terrible at cricket is that English kids no longer do this, because their parents are too paranoid to let them out of the house.
The only baseball American kids seem to play any more is organized Little League, for the same reasons. Parents want to know where there kids are at all times. In fact if they don't know, the media labels them bad parents.
I love living in a neighbourhood where kids play on the streets. It's so cute! They're like little urchins or something!
And while we're talking about Spike's bad American, that sounds like mock-Somerset to me, with the very extended R and odd vowels.
Except Spike's bad American? Pretty much how he seems to talk. It is very strange.
I also get mistaken for Canadian all the time, but I don't know why. I think it is just stupid people who think I must be foreign when I speak in a precise manner.
I love living in a neighbourhood where kids play on the streets. It's so cute! They're like little urchins or something!
Whereabouts in Melbourne are you, Angus? We had that at our old place (MIll Park), it was a newer suburb with a brand new primary school and had a lot of families with young kids.
North Melbourne, billytea. (Which does always make me wince somewhat and pray none of the kids steps on a syringe...but, you know, all part of the vibrant inner-city colour.)