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heh. and that red-headed boy in the group photo, with the black tshirt and khaki shorts...that's tadgh's brother (who's name i now can't remember)....ah the ACCENT. you know us dumb American girls...suckers for accents, irish or otherwise!!!
you're more advanced than a cockroach,
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
Oh, yes. . . the accents.Lucimay wrote:heh. and that red-headed boy in the group photo, with the black tshirt and khaki shorts...that's tadgh's brother (who's name i now can't remember)....ah the ACCENT. you know us dumb American girls...suckers for accents, irish or otherwise!!!
This is a picture of my tour guide from Pompeii. His name is Marco. He had a lovely accent. I gave some very serious thought to asking him to come home with me. 
I would imagine that you'd have a lovely accent as well, Xar, especially to our ears.Xar wrote:Darn, I need to exercise a more heavily accented English... why, why did I ever learn to speak English so well?! Ah, the angst! The pain!
Unless one learns language in a vacuum from a electronic robotic (uninflected) source, a person will always have some inflection reminiscent of the prevailing trend both at home and locally. Of course, there will always be exceptions to this rule. For instance, even though I grew up in the midwest United States, I have been told on many ocassions (by other Americans from both coasts) that I have very little accent, and when I do it is limited to a very few individual words. I chalk this up to having moved around some in my younger years, and to having parents who grew up in places with with almost no discernable accent (California and Indiana). Now, the Danish man I once dated told me I had a very slight accent--only natural, since English is not his native language.
I cannot speak for others, but one of the reasons I find accents enchanting is how they add a level of musicality to the spoken language that is usually lacking (or at least undetected by me). Hence the reason that I could have listened to Marco talk about absolutely anything all day long. . .
Meh. . . I hope that made some sense. It's late and I'm tired.
Makes perfect sense. I'm a southerner that was raised in California but lives in Maryland. I don't have the gawdawful annoying Baltimore accent, but my drawl and my surfer accents both slip out from time to time.
And given enough Guinness, my brogue comes out quite a lot.
And given enough Guinness, my brogue comes out quite a lot.
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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dang. 
we didn't get enough Guiness in ya on the DC jaunt!
we didn't get enough Guiness in ya on the DC jaunt! you're more advanced than a cockroach,
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
Remember, you didn't see my "A" game due to the medication I was on.
Just you wait 'till next time.
Just you wait 'till next time.
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
_____________
"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
_____________
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
_____________
_____________
"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
_____________
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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NEXT time you need to be comin on HOME for a meet up bub!!Cail wrote:Remember, you didn't see my "A" game due to the medication I was on.
Just you wait 'till next time.
this discourse, of course, lovely tho it is, has nothing whatsoever to do with FBH. but as Mehitabel so succinctly put it "whotthehell whotthehell"
Last edited by lucimay on Sat Oct 07, 2006 6:34 am, edited 2 times in total.
you're more advanced than a cockroach,
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
Believe you me, nothing would make me happier, as long as I don't have to drive in LA traffic again!
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
_____________
"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
_____________
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
_____________
_____________
"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
_____________
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
_____________
Studies indicate that if you move away from a place with a distinct accent before the age of 13 years, you will likely lose the accent. However, the reverse is true as well. . . if you live somewhere with an strong local accent for the first 13 years of life, it is likely that you will always have some of it.Cail wrote:Makes perfect sense. I'm a southerner that was raised in California but lives in Maryland. I don't have the gawdawful annoying Baltimore accent, but my drawl and my surfer accents both slip out from time to time.
And given enough Guinness, my brogue comes out quite a lot.
Case in point: I went to university with a young man whose parents were both Americans that became missionaries to England. He was born in England, and spent the first 17 years of his life there before moving back to the states. His mother and father had no accent whatsoever. . . but Kevin sounded unmistakably like an English gentleman. Boy was he popular with the ladies. . .
~Lyr
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Cameraman Jenn
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And a mighty fine job he did of it....especially from my perspective. Also, I think it's safe to let the cat out of the bag and officially announce that yes, SRD will be the guest expert in the final episode of FBH. Well, he already bought his plane tickets anyway.....
Now if I could just find a way to wear live bees as jewelry all the time.....
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Cameraman Jenn
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I also need to clear up some confusion. Tadhg, pronounced like tiger without the er on the end, has never been a member of KW. As far as I know, I am the only cast/crew member of FBH that has joined other than some past and future experts and I just did it yesterday.
CJ
PS. I am the girl in the purple shirt to the left of the group brunch photo.
CJ
PS. I am the girl in the purple shirt to the left of the group brunch photo.
Now if I could just find a way to wear live bees as jewelry all the time.....
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Cameraman Jenn!!!! 
nice to see you around here!!
say i say hey to all the FBH bunch!!!!
nice to see you around here!!say i say hey to all the FBH bunch!!!!
you're more advanced than a cockroach,
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
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Cameraman Jenn
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I've gotten emails from fans already, one of which pointed out that it's nice that FINALLY someone from FBH joined the watch...heheheheh. I know I should have joined sooner but what can I say, I am a busy busy girl. I promise to try to make time for KW though.
Hugs!
CJ
Hugs!
CJ
Now if I could just find a way to wear live bees as jewelry all the time.....
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Welcome, Jenn. We're glad you came here.Cameraman Jenn wrote:I've gotten emails from fans already, one of which pointed out that it's nice that FINALLY someone from FBH joined the watch...heheheheh. I know I should have joined sooner but what can I say, I am a busy busy girl. I promise to try to make time for KW though.
Hugs!
CJ
