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Oops, beg pardon :-)
I know one thing, the number of people in the world who speak better and more articulate English than vast swathes of the English populace themselves is, frankly, plain embarrassing.
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03-24-2022 08:58 AM
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Originally Posted by ragman1
Being from the South--the secret to my success when living outside Appalachia was to pronounce every consonant. Otherwise people thought I was a hillbilly. (Which I might be, just don't let on that I am.) People where I come from talk like Jeff Foxworthy. You might be a redneck if...you talk like Jeff Foxworthy.
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I assume nothing with language...my grandmother's maiden name was Kowalawicz.
Pronounced "Ko-Va-Lev-Each."
This year I have a student named "Ma-Youngnai"
Pronuonced My-onna.
I've pretty much figured out words just are pictures of a sound, and people draw them differently
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Originally Posted by Doctor Jeff
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Originally Posted by Doctor Jeff
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"Creek" NWPA "Crick"
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Originally Posted by A. Kingstone
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I think it's high time Canada became its own place.
hope that's not controversial
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Originally Posted by citizenk74
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Originally Posted by ragman1
So do we!
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Originally Posted by ragman1
Another word on the list: squirrel. My dog Harley would start barking as soon as you said squirrel, or square, for that matter. My young nephews thought this was hilarious and would try to set him off, but they were too young to have mastered the pronunciation, so they kept saying "tor-el", which didn't register with Harley.
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Originally Posted by ragman1
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Originally Posted by RJVB
I grew up with Soviet/Russian movies - great artistic tradition.
But when I began watching English and American movies in original I noticed how much more casual and natural their speech was.
I think it is about theatrical tradition in Russian acting partly...
American actors are really good in movies and in casual scenes.
But on the other hand actors in America do not care about accent at all. I think it is partly because of the mixed origin of the nation.
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Originally Posted by A. Kingstone
I'm going to get myself into trouble soon!
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Originally Posted by Jonah
Everything okay with you, Jonah? As far as it goes anyway. At least you can still post here.
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Originally Posted by ragman1
I can handle both (In Soviet times they dubbed everything), my elder daughter always prefer an original with subs if she canot the language.
In Sweden and Finland they always use subs only.
In Italy even original Italian movies were dubbed by substitute voice actors.
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Originally Posted by Jonah
I hate it. If you have no other choice I can live with it if the movie is thrilling enough (I'll refuse to watch dubbed art cinema), but it gets really unbearable when you have to listen to it. Of course it's also quite disturbing when the same dubbing voice is used for 2 very different characters.
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Originally Posted by ragman1
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Originally Posted by Christian Miller
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Re: VIDEO
The skinny kid on guitar watching the enormous adult on guitar!
Roan - Oak sounds right.
Great video.
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Originally Posted by sgosnell
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Originally Posted by PMB
Anyone can google these...
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Originally Posted by ragman1
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Originally Posted by A. Kingstone
But he did do it well, it was quite fast. They didn't sound fully in sync at the beginning because the young kid, bless him, was trying to play along and not getting it. Luckily he stopped and thereafter it was okay.
Roanoke, Va, was/is the setting of a well-known bluegrass festival. As we're here, here's a short version of a relaxed Tony Rice doing his thing. Even his solo is unusually casual... but so good they all start grinning. At least, I think that's why!
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Originally Posted by PMB
16" 1920s/30s L5
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