I did that once reading Nick Hornby and trying to write my Entourage script. And, because NH and Entourage are both sort of about blokes and their blokeliness, it snuck up on me too. Then the next day, I read back and it was like "Johnny Drama has a cell, not a mobile." I guess I find that contagious.
Book: I believe I just... I think I'm on the wrong ship. Inara: Maybe. Or maybe you're exactly where you ought to be.
'Serenity'
Spike's Bitches 45: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
erikaj - Nov 24, 2009 5:42:45 am PST #1482 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Nov 24, 2009 5:51:51 am PST #1483 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
I guess I find that contagious.
The Girl uses a lot of American phrases and terms, having partly grown up in Houston. I 'catch' them so easily. Fortunately she doesn't have an American accent. I picked up bits of that after about a week of my year in the US.
WindSparrow - Nov 24, 2009 5:53:01 am PST #1484 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Heh. I wouldn't know - but it's funny imagining you guys watching QI and talking like Stephen Fry.
I just hope I'm not as horrifying as the American accents in Jeeves and Wooster.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Nov 24, 2009 5:55:30 am PST #1485 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
I just hope I'm not as horrifying as the American accents in Jeeves and Wooster.
Just as long as you're better than James Marsters.
Gudanov - Nov 24, 2009 5:56:58 am PST #1486 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
I 'catch' them so easily. Fortunately she doesn't have an American accent. I picked up bits of that after about a week of my year in the US.
What do people think of American accents over there? Over here, British accents are generally well regarded.
Vortex - Nov 24, 2009 5:59:02 am PST #1487 of 30000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
The issue isn't accents, it's Americans. I once said "why are Americans always such idiots in British TV" He looked at me and said "why does the bad guy always have a british accent?" I said "fair enough"
Tom Scola - Nov 24, 2009 6:02:05 am PST #1488 of 30000
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
"why does the bad guy always have a british accent?"
Because Mark Sheppard is awesome!
§ ita § - Nov 24, 2009 6:03:08 am PST #1489 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Spooks is doing its level best to reverse that trend. The CIA (well, okay, most foreigners and pretty much all British government types that aren't MI6) are evil to the core.
Stephanie - Nov 24, 2009 6:05:12 am PST #1490 of 30000
Trust my rage
Puerto Rico, Guam et all also have non-voting Reps and no Senators; but they also pay no federal taxes. District residents get the double whammy.
I was going to share my thoughts on the messed up position Puerto Rico was in, but then I decided that probably no one else cares as much as I do. And I don't have to care anymore because I don't live there anymore.
Personally, I always think British accents make people sound more interesting.
Jessica - Nov 24, 2009 6:08:34 am PST #1491 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I absorb accents like a sponge, which means I am constantly checking myself at work to make sure I'm not accidentally speaking British.