Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Accents. Date: 28 Oct 2025 18:47:44 GMT Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <7dlhrlxmm6.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10c908i$3600i$2@dont-email.me> <68ea7364$0$12948$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <68eb8c02$0$24822$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <10d0f0e$1u8bd$1@dont-email.me> <68f40083$0$28050$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <20251020092029.000020b3@gmail.com> <68fcc773$0$417$426a34cc@news.free.fr> <10djhg8$3kg9d$5@dont-email.me> <10donsh$17dho$6@dont-email.me> <10dp2m1$1ctkt$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 5m1qbZMLQ2za5KTvDDNVKgd08FjgFeqMbDBizEiW1QYqTTXYep Cancel-Lock: sha1:EJVXZeSJZbzNo6MISR5boY+T18M= sha256:Az7it/4hSxoEc2wFyqShn2PwwDwkYlO6anQZEOpExfY= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:76781 On Tue, 28 Oct 2025 13:46:14 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote: > I watched this weekend, maybe for the third time, the movie "Three > Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri". It is surprising the different > accents you can hear in the same area. The police chief: educated, > cultivated, polite, soft spoken. Then his aide, xenophobic, violent. The Kiwi has strange ideas about American pronunciations. The regional accents are slowly dying as the kid's learn to talk like the guy on the 5 o'clock news but they're still there. There are some odd effects. Older white speakers in northern Georgia have an accent I can barely understand. The black speakers in the same area tend to have a more uniform black accent that I'm used to. q.v. Kamela Harris' amusing accent shifts. I can't hear it but I have an accent that people around here sometimes say is 'back east' from some indeterminate region. Even as a kid people would say my accent was different from where I grew up. My downfall is British shows. Some are okay, some are very difficult for me to understand. After a while I sometimes can adapt. I do better with Australian shows for some reason. There was a rumor that the first 'Road Warrior' movie had to be dubbed for the US audience but I can't confirm it.