Buffy ,'Help'
[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.
What do people think of American accents over there?
They're mostly associated with film and TV, as we have masses of that from the US (as you'd expect). There are some stereotypes associated with them, but mainly by people who don't know any actual Americans. People like The Girl and me, with 'murrican connections, would mostly just find them interesting, like Stephanie said re British accents in America.
Grammar edit. Dissertation frying brain. Time for food.
I've noticed we sound super-nasal on your telly and tend to talk louder. But some of us really do, so it's hard to get offended, even if it is a caricature.
Because Mark Sheppard is awesome!
I think he's got almost every space on his Genre TV Bingo Card filled in at this point.
I absorb accents like a sponge, which means I am constantly checking myself at work to make sure I'm not accidentally speaking British.
As do I. Hee. One of the more innocent things I do, under the influence of Ambien, is that I suddenly find myself spurred to read whatever it is I'm reading before bed in a British or French accent.
Strangely, I haven't done this since I've acquired a boyfriend. (I also like to read the French, Italian and Spanish instructions on beauty products and cooking items aloud, to practice. I'm a freak.)
I think he's got almost every space on his Genre TV Bingo Card filled in at this point.
He's beyond Genre. If it's filmed in Canada, he's been on it. And beyond. He'll go anywhere, be skeevy in anything. Him and Garret Dillahunt.
(I also like to read the French, Italian and Spanish instructions on beauty products and cooking items aloud, to practice. I'm a freak.)
I learned most of my early French from reading the backs of Canadian cereal boxes as a kid.
I learned most of my early French from reading the backs of Canadian cereal boxes as a kid.
Me too! And the backs of shampoo bottles and medicine bottles...
I also like to read the French, Italian and Spanish instructions on beauty products and cooking items aloud, to practice.
'Shampooing' has a very cool pronunciation.
I've noticed we sound super-nasal on your telly and tend to talk louder. But some of us really do, so it's hard to get offended, even if it is a caricature.
Heh. I know what you mean. It's like how we always sound as posh as the Queen on your shows. And I go "We don't sound like that," and then I hear Stephen Fry and apparently we do.
The one that confused me for years was "raisin" flavored soda and juice boxes. I was well into my teens before I realized that "raisin" was French for "grape."
I think he's got almost every space on his Genre TV Bingo Card filled in at this point.
When I met him at Comic-Con, I was all, "I loved you on Firefly and Battlestar Galactica and The X-Files, " and he was all, "Was I in all those?" He's also got, what, The Middleman and Dollhouse and Leverage and Supernatural and...I think that's all the ones I've seen him in. Perhaps.