HIGHLA-L Digest - 20 Apr 2005 to 21 Apr 2005 (#2005-39)
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1. HIGHLA-L Digest - 19 Apr 2005 to 20 Apr 2005 (#2005-38)
2. Accents On Highlander
3. Accents in HL (4)
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Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 20:35:23 -0700
From: FKMel <sgt_buck_frobisher@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: HIGHLA-L Digest - 19 Apr 2005 to 20 Apr 2005 (#2005-38)
I think that was "Fredless"
Wes: The purpose of an inventory...
Gunn: Yes, give us the "purpose of an inventory speech
*again*.
AD probably was able to replicate the accent after
living there for a while (I read an interview where he
said he started to pick the accent up himself after a
while)
Spike, yeah, not sure about his. I think Anthony
Stewart Head's was pretty close to his natural voice
(though it was funny how it changed slightly when he
got candy-drunk in Band Candy lol)
And to get this back on topic: How does a 5000 year
old guy pick up a British accent anyway? lol
Mel (I guess when you compare, Adrian Paul's Duncan
accent is even better than David Boreanaz's Irish
accent lol)
> >LOL...I went to school with Alex Denisof and it's
> always odd to me to
> >hear him *with* an English accent.
>
> Heh... and I wouldn't have guessed he wasn't English
> (he does such
> a good job) except for the fact that he
> mispronounced (for a person
> from Britain) the word 'inventory' in one episode of
> Angel. British
> people say 'inventry'. :)
>
> OTOH, I always knew James Marsters (Spike) wasn't
> English. Something
> about his accent is just a little 'off'.
>
> - Marina.
>
> \\ "I'm like every other kid in America. We all
> ||>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> //
> // wanna be astronauts... 'to boldly go where || R
> I C H I E >> \\
> \\ no man has gone before'." - Matt Sikes to
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> // Cathy Frankel; Green Eyes (Alien Nation) ||
> \\
> \\==============tmar@sifl.iid.co.za=============||
> //
> //=============Chief Flag Waver and Defender of
> Richie=============\\
>
> "Nothing in the world is the way it ought to be.
> It's harsh and
> it's cruel, but that's why there's us ... We live as
> though the
> world were how it should be, to show it what it can
> be." - Angel
>
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Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 22:50:35 -0500
From: Ginny <RED57@aol.com>
Subject: Accents On Highlander
FKMel wrote on 4/20/2005, 10:35 PM:
> Mel (I guess when you compare, Adrian Paul's Duncan
> accent is even better than David Boreanaz's Irish
> accent lol)
Not only that, but Sean Connery's Scottish accent was really very good
for a 3000-year-old Egyptian guy. ;)
While looking for some idea of Ramirez' age, I ran across this
interesting site: http://www.answers.com/topic/highlander-2
It notes that "highlander" has become programmer jargon for a solution
that involves exclusive to a resource - as in "there can be only one."
--
Ginny
RED57@aol.com
Fresh out of .sig lines
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Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 06:53:29 +0200
From: T'Mar <tmar@sifl.iid.co.za>
Subject: Accents in HL
>I think that was "Fredless"
Yeah, okay, shoot me for forgetting which episode. :) You know,
it's all Wendy's fault that I started watching Buffy (and my
extension Angel) anyway. :)
>AD probably was able to replicate the accent after
>living there for a while (I read an interview where he
>said he started to pick the accent up himself after a
>while)
I don't know if you know what a S.African accent sounds like
(think Baal in SG-1) but a friend of mine went to live in
England and when he came back here a few years ago I couldn't
understand a word he said!
>Spike, yeah, not sure about his.
There's just something about how he pronounces 'a' words (like
'ask') that doesn't sound English to me (since William was
English before he was turned).
>I think Anthony
>Stewart Head's was pretty close to his natural voice
>(though it was funny how it changed slightly when he
>got candy-drunk in Band Candy lol)
I read somewhere that his accent in Band Candy was more like his
accent in real life. I also think he sounds pretty much the
same, going by other things I've seen him in.
>And to get this back on topic: How does a 5000 year
>old guy pick up a British accent anyway? lol
Or a person from ancient Egypt knowing English... but no, we
won't go there. :)
>(I guess when you compare, Adrian Paul's Duncan
>accent is even better than David Boreanaz's Irish
>accent lol)
Which, let's face it, isn't hard to accomplish. (Although
DB did a pretty good job of pronouncing 'arse' correctly in
The Girl in Question, heh.)
I always used to enjoy it in Farscape when Crichton had to
pretend to be a Peacekeeper, because his Peacekeeper accent
was so terrible! :)
- Marina (who is still working her way through the Farscapes
she hasn't seen.) (Just tell me it's Crichton's child.)
\\ "I'm naming all the stars." ||>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> //
// "You can't see the stars, love. That's the || R I C H I E >> \\
\\ ceiling. Also, it's day." - Drusilla & Spike ||>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> //
//=====Marina Bailey====tmar@sifl.iid.co.za=====|| \\
\\==============Chief Flag Waver and Defender of Richie============//
"Nothing in the world is the way it ought to be. It's harsh and
it's cruel, but that's why there's us ... We live as though the
world were how it should be, to show it what it can be." - Angel
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Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 01:36:42 EDT
From: Freddy V <Tecnogypsy3@aol.com>
Subject: Re: Accents in HL
Greetings all,
n a message dated 4/20/2005 10:29:14 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
tmar@sifl.iid.co.za writes:
>I think that was "Fredless"
Huh? And I still trying to get used to BC (British C. and VC Vancoverite)
~~~Fred~~~ now living somewhere between Seattle and Seacover
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Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 09:05:32 -0400
From: Wendy <Immortals_Incorporated@cox.net>
Subject: Re: Accents in HL
Marina says:
> Yeah, okay, shoot me for forgetting which episode. :) You know,
> it's all Wendy's fault that I started watching Buffy (and my
> extension Angel) anyway. :)
I thought we had established that *everything* was my fault?
> I always used to enjoy it in Farscape when Crichton had to
> pretend to be a Peacekeeper, because his Peacekeeper accent
> was so terrible! :)
Some episodes the accent is better than others. After a while, he just
stopped trying- but by that point many of the real Peacekeepers no
longer had accents (or at least they didn't all share the same accent)
> - Marina (who is still working her way through the Farscapes
> she hasn't seen.) (Just tell me it's Crichton's child.)
Yes. It's Crichton's. Not *this* Crichton's (probably) but still
Crichton's. By the time it is resolved, no one - especially John and
Aeryn- care that there were once two Crichtons.
Wendy(Oh dear, did that need spoiler spaces?)(Too late.)(Guessing you
haven't seen "Peacekeeper War")(Death, destruction, birth, betrayal,
Einstein, Harvey, wormholes, more death and destruction, your side, my
side, your side, my side, "I tried to tell you")
Immortals Inc.
immortals_incorporated@cox.net
"Weasels for Eternity"
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Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 17:10:58 +0200
From: T'Mar <tmar@sifl.iid.co.za>
Subject: Re: Accents in HL
>I thought we had established that *everything* was my fault?
It probably is. :)
>Some episodes the accent is better than others. After a while, he just
>stopped trying- but by that point many of the real Peacekeepers no
>longer had accents (or at least they didn't all share the same accent)
I did like it in the early episodes. "Please AAAAH-sk (ask)..."
"You CAAAAAH-n't (can't)..." Heh. Well, at least he tried. :)
>Yes. It's Crichton's. Not *this* Crichton's (probably) but still
>Crichton's. By the time it is resolved, no one - especially John and
>Aeryn- care that there were once two Crichtons.
Yeah, the double. Saw those. Twice. The first time round, I fell
asleep. Then had to watch again because I had no idea what was
going on.
>(Oh dear, did that need spoiler spaces?)
We don't need no stinking spoiler spaces! I survived for years on
this list being *months* behind everyone and managed to get through
it. So phooey to spoiler spaces, I say.
Was Fred asking what "Fredless" was? Episode of Angel. Third season,
if memory serves. (My fave is Waiting in the Wings, not that anyone
cares.)
- Marina.
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//=======tmar@sifl.iid.co.za========|| \\
\\=======Chief Flag Waver and Defender of Richie=======//
"You know, Kent, it's always been my policy to back my reporters one
thousand percent. I mean, if you went up there and opened those
windows and told me that you could fly, I'd back you up. I'd miss
you, but I'd back you up." - Perry White; Lois & Clark.
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