imago said:

sextonseven said:

Yes. Imagine if the continental United States (contiguous U.S. if you really want to get technical) had its own name that excluded Alaska and Hawaii--something more confusing than "continental United States" haha--then you'll see why many people get it mixed up.

OK, this is what I've been told.

It's starting to make my head hurt, really. I'll need to take a break and watch my copy of Let Me In

...which begs the question...would a 2,000 year old vampire in England have a British, English or Romanian accent...?

PurpleJedi said:

imago said:

OK, this is what I've been told.

It's starting to make my head hurt, really. I'll need to take a break and watch my copy of Let Me In

...which begs the question...would a 2,000 year old vampire in England have a British, English or Romanian accent...?

I would think they have plenty of time to adopt any accent they want.

Although, they are dead so a British one would be fitting.

imago said:

PurpleJedi said:

...which begs the question...would a 2,000 year old vampire in England have a British, English or Romanian accent...?

I would think they have plenty of time to adopt any accent they want.

Although, they are dead so a British one would be fitting.

I keed. I keed.

PurpleJedi said:

imago said:

OK, this is what I've been told.

It's starting to make my head hurt, really. I'll need to take a break and watch my copy of Let Me In

...which begs the question...would a 2,000 year old vampire in England have a British, English or Romanian accent...?

Im guessing french cos tha's what Connor Macloed from Highlander got.

SometimesIwonder said:

Genesia- is the Scottish accent really difficult to copy?! I wouldn't have realised that at all!

Yes, it is. Though I have to say, the biggest part of the challenge (from an acting standpoint, which is how I come at it) is making it authentic while still being understood.

Actually, that's a challenge with a lot of the thicker accents in the British Isles - Scots, Cockney, Yorkshire, Northern Irish. If you make it truly authentic, American audiences have a very hard time understanding and following the dialogue. Throw in colloquialisms and it can be a nightmare.

PurpleJedi said:

...which begs the question...would a 2,000 year old vampire in England have a British, English or Romanian accent...?

In light of the thread so far, that's not the best example

Bram Stoker was born and educated in Dublin, so Dracula might sound like Colin Farrell.

This thread has made me realize that, currently, I have no British friends.

Visionnaire said:

This thread has made me realize that, currently, I have no British friends.

lucky bastard

My best friends here in Asia are Welsh and Scottish.

I love them!

Genesia said:

Your co-worker needs to bone up on the historically testy relationship between England and Scotland.

As near as I can reckon, it's like in Clueless, when Cher talks about her housekeeper "talking Mexican" when she's from El Salvador. No she didn't!! OMFG.

imago said:

My best friends here in Asia are Welsh and Scottish.

I love them!

you must be desperate

I saw the thread title and thought 'Ooh, I can contribute to this'

Then I started reading the posts and my brain hurt.

Lisa10 said:

I saw the thread title and thought 'Ooh, I can contribute to this'

Then I started reading the posts and my brain hurt.

Lisa10 said:

I saw the thread title and thought 'Ooh, I can contribute to this'

Then I started reading the posts and my brain hurt.

Lisa10 said:

I saw the thread title and thought 'Ooh, I can contribute to this'

Then I started reading the posts and my brain hurt.

Go ahead and be a part of this magnificent thread ANYWAY...you know you WANT to.

Genesia said:

SometimesIwonder said:

Genesia said:

Yes, it is. Though I have to say, the biggest part of the challenge (from an acting standpoint, which is how I come at it) is making it authentic while still being understood.

Actually, that's a challenge with a lot of the thicker accents in the British Isles - Scots, Cockney, Yorkshire, Northern Irish. If you make it truly authentic, American audiences have a very hard time understanding and following the dialogue. Throw in colloquialisms and it can be a nightmare.

Right, I understand that you wouldn't want to make it too thick, so the audience can still pick up what you're saying. My friend in NC told me that many Scottish things that are shown in the states have subtitles! Ha ha It's funny how Scots can understand the broadest of regional English accents & American too, but people have difficulty with ours. Where I live, we lapse into old Scots quite a bit when speaking to relations & others from here. Now that IS a different language! Think more along the lines of Robert Burns. But it's sad as so many words are being lost. Some words my mum says I'm like "whit?" Spicket is a tap/faucet, Wheesht means shh, coo is cow, dug is dog, een are eyes... The list goes on & on. When I meet new people who aren't Scottish, I love to recite Scots poems I learned as a child. It totally baffles them!

It's wonderful sounding language, that's for sure.

SometimesIwonder said:

Right, I understand that you wouldn't want to make it too thick, so the audience can still pick up what you're saying. My friend in NC told me that many Scottish things that are shown in the states have subtitles! Ha ha It's funny how Scots can understand the broadest of regional English accents & American too, but people have difficulty with ours. Where I live, we lapse into old Scots quite a bit when speaking to relations & others from here. Now that IS a different language! Think more along the lines of Robert Burns. But it's sad as so many words are being lost. Some words my mum says I'm like "whit?" Spicket is a tap/faucet, Wheesht means shh, coo is cow, dug is dog, een are eyes... The list goes on & on. When I meet new people who aren't Scottish, I love to recite Scots poems I learned as a child. It totally baffles them!

When I saw the Scottish film Red Road at the cinema, it was subtitled. And I happened to see it with a friend who was British so when the movie started and the subtitles came on, she turned to me totally bewildered and asked, "Why are there subtitles???"

SometimesIwonder said:

Genesia said:

Yes, it is. Though I have to say, the biggest part of the challenge (from an acting standpoint, which is how I come at it) is making it authentic while still being understood.

Actually, that's a challenge with a lot of the thicker accents in the British Isles - Scots, Cockney, Yorkshire, Northern Irish. If you make it truly authentic, American audiences have a very hard time understanding and following the dialogue. Throw in colloquialisms and it can be a nightmare.

Right, I understand that you wouldn't want to make it too thick, so the audience can still pick up what you're saying. My friend in NC told me that many Scottish things that are shown in the states have subtitles! Ha ha It's funny how Scots can understand the broadest of regional English accents & American too, but people have difficulty with ours. Where I live, we lapse into old Scots quite a bit when speaking to relations & others from here. Now that IS a different language! Think more along the lines of Robert Burns. But it's sad as so many words are being lost. Some words my mum says I'm like "whit?" Spicket is a tap/faucet, Wheesht means shh, coo is cow, dug is dog, een are eyes... The list goes on & on. When I meet new people who aren't Scottish, I love to recite Scots poems I learned as a child. It totally baffles them!

Ya wee sleekit cow'rin tim'rous beastie.

My parents were old Scots to the max. Anyone not from that area of Scotland would think it was a foreign language, which it often was...hehe.

On another note, there are unsurprisingly a ton of Scottish words for alcohol..

Bevy = alcohol.

Cargo = quantity of alcohol, e.g a carry out from an off licence.

Carry oot = quantity of alcohol from an off licence.

Foo = drunk.

Paraletic = drunk.

Swally = alcohol.

Blootered = drunk.

Bevy = alcohol.

Guttered = drunk

Aff yer heid = Off your head/drunk.

Steamboats = drunk.

Cattled = drunk.

Steamin' = drunk.

Jakey or Jakey bam = alcoholic.

PurpleJedi said:

Lisa10 said:

I saw the thread title and thought 'Ooh, I can contribute to this'

Then I started reading the posts and my brain hurt.

Go ahead and be a part of this magnificent thread ANYWAY...you know you WANT to.

OK.

What was the question again?

Well I would say that it could be either British OR Scottish.

Like i'm from Suffolk (in England) and I suppose I could be referred to as English, British or East Anglian. It's all under the same umbrella, innit?!

this picture basically sums up scotland

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TheDigitalGardener said:

SometimesIwonder said:

Genesia said: Right, I understand that you wouldn't want to make it too thick, so the audience can still pick up what you're saying. My friend in NC told me that many Scottish things that are shown in the states have subtitles! Ha ha It's funny how Scots can understand the broadest of regional English accents & American too, but people have difficulty with ours. Where I live, we lapse into old Scots quite a bit when speaking to relations & others from here. Now that IS a different language! Think more along the lines of Robert Burns. But it's sad as so many words are being lost. Some words my mum says I'm like "whit?" Spicket is a tap/faucet, Wheesht means shh, coo is cow, dug is dog, een are eyes... The list goes on & on. When I meet new people who aren't Scottish, I love to recite Scots poems I learned as a child. It totally baffles them!

Ya wee sleekit cow'rin tim'rous beastie.

My parents were old Scots to the max. Anyone not from that area of Scotland would think it was a foreign language, which it often was...hehe.

On another note, there are unsurprisingly a ton of Scottish words for alcohol..

Bevy = alcohol.

Cargo = quantity of alcohol, e.g a carry out from an off licence.

Carry oot = quantity of alcohol from an off licence.

Foo = drunk.

Paraletic = drunk.

Swally = alcohol.

Blootered = drunk.

Bevy = alcohol.

Guttered = drunk

Aff yer heid = Off your head/drunk.

Steamboats = drunk.

Cattled = drunk.

Steamin' = drunk.

Jakey or Jakey bam = alcoholic.

Copy and save.

I can't wait to call johnart a jakey bam sometime and watch him go

unique said:

this picture basically sums up scotland

[img:$uid]http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HwOYCLiC_OA/Tt07biJPCBI/AAAAAAAAFZg/QcAinspKxd0/s1600/Trainspotting.jpg[/img:$uid]

Come now unique, a bunch of well educated upper middle class wankers pretending to be common?

This picture sums up Scotland.

[img:$uid]http://i757.photobucket.com/albums/xx218/MMikeyBee/6a00d8341bf87b53ef00e54f2a7c358834-800wi.gif[/img:$uid]

^^ Nice.

TheDigitalGardener said:

unique said:

this picture basically sums up scotland

[img:$uid]http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HwOYCLiC_OA/Tt07biJPCBI/AAAAAAAAFZg/QcAinspKxd0/s1600/Trainspotting.jpg[/img:$uid]

Come now unique, a bunch of well educated upper middle class wankers pretending to be common?

This picture sums up Scotland.

[img:$uid]http://i757.photobucket.com/albums/xx218/MMikeyBee/6a00d8341bf87b53ef00e54f2a7c358834-800wi.gif[/img:$uid]

don't you mean

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Genesia said:

SometimesIwonder said:

Genesia said: Right, I understand that you wouldn't want to make it too thick, so the audience can still pick up what you're saying. My friend in NC told me that many Scottish things that are shown in the states have subtitles! Ha ha It's funny how Scots can understand the broadest of regional English accents & American too, but people have difficulty with ours. Where I live, we lapse into old Scots quite a bit when speaking to relations & others from here. Now that IS a different language! Think more along the lines of Robert Burns. But it's sad as so many words are being lost. Some words my mum says I'm like "whit?" Spicket is a tap/faucet, Wheesht means shh, coo is cow, dug is dog, een are eyes... The list goes on & on. When I meet new people who aren't Scottish, I love to recite Scots poems I learned as a child. It totally baffles them!

It's wonderful sounding language, that's for sure.

Is it?

I'm from the UK, even been with a couple of scots, and half of the time I still don't have a clue what there saying especially this one