The future, when I see season 7, will be perfect, and I can't do anything about it, so I'm passively waiting for Sky One to show it. Right.
Lorne: Take care of yourself and ah, make sure fluffy is getting enough love. Gunn: Did he have anything? Fred: No. And who's fluffy? Are you fluffy? Gunn: He called me fluffy? Fred: He said make sure…wait. You don't think he was referring to anything of mine that's fluffy, do you? Because that would just be inappropriate.
'Conviction (1)'
All Ogle, No Cash -- It's Not Just Annoying, It's Un-American
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Am-Chau Yarkona - Nov 15, 2002 11:04:43 am PST #386 of 9843
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
Betsy HP - Nov 15, 2002 11:10:25 am PST #387 of 9843
If I only had a brain...
A poster on another list just complained that she, as a Briton, finds Buffy unintelligible and wonders if she has a regional accent.
I said, nope, straight American, and most American TV actors do not use any regional accents.
Do you unAmericans think Buffy has a different accent than the rest of the cast (excluding English and faux-English characters)?
Sophia Brooks - Nov 15, 2002 12:37:54 pm PST #388 of 9843
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Not an Un-American, but I think Buffy is more unintelligible because of her way of speaking than her accent, which seems free of regionalism to me. Where is she from?
sumi - Nov 15, 2002 12:45:04 pm PST #389 of 9843
Art Crawl!!!
Isn't she from NY or NJ originally?
Theodosia - Nov 15, 2002 12:47:11 pm PST #390 of 9843
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
IIRC, canonically Joyce has relatives back in Illinois. But I can't recall any statement that Buffy lived anywhere else but Los Angeles growing up.
Hil R. - Nov 15, 2002 12:48:41 pm PST #391 of 9843
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
She's from NY, I think, and that's what she sounds like to me (she's got the northeastern "ar" pronunciation in "Tara"), but in the early seasons anyway, she used a lot of California/Valley Girl inflections.
Daisy Jane - Nov 15, 2002 12:49:27 pm PST #392 of 9843
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
She does sometimes do this thing where she seems to be talking from the nasal cavity. Like, in Something Blue her "No" after spike asks if he gets a cookie.
sumi - Nov 15, 2002 12:50:23 pm PST #393 of 9843
Art Crawl!!!
We're talking SMG not Buffy.
Buffy is from California - - of course.
Sophia Brooks - Nov 15, 2002 12:50:59 pm PST #394 of 9843
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I think SMG sounds normal to me because that nasal cavity sound is really prevelent in NYS, where I live.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Nov 15, 2002 12:55:57 pm PST #395 of 9843
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
Do you unAmericans think Buffy has a different accent than the rest of the cast (excluding English and faux-English characters)?
I'm intrested in the answers to this becuase accents is a personal intrest, but I don't notice that Buffy is harder to understand than the rest of the cast. She does use the nasal-cavity 'n' that sounds almost French at times, but my (ignorant-of-America-in-real-life) feeling is that she's as much Californian as the rest of them (Willow, Tara, Cordelia, etc). I find all the American accents grating at times, and I try to only really listen hard to Giles, but that's a personal thing.