Americans only

[cactus]

How many Americans like me absolutly cannot stand watching movies where EVERY single character speaks with a heavy accent? I find it so annoying and I start to get anxious for the movie to end! Nothing against Brits, but I simply couldn't wait for Lifetime's movie of Princess Diana to end not because I wasn't interested (I Love Princess Diana) but because the accents were driving me crazy! I was like: can't...one...person...talk...normal......

 

[AllyandJack]

I have to be honest.....I felt the same way about Brokeback Mountain. Didn't understand much of what they were saying.

Normal is a relative term. I'm sure in other countries people are writing these exact posts about movies with all Americans.

 

[shrubber]

Characters with heavy accents in movies doesn't bother me....

There has to be a bad guy right?

 

[Rella Bella]

I'm sorry to laugh -- although I did really enjoy it -- but they ARE talking normal! Especially if it's a movie about the royal family of Britian! If you don't like the accent stay away from Masterpiece Theater and movies made by or about Brits.

As for accents... we all have one, someone with dialect training can tell you what part of the world you are from down to a few miles!

 

[Bob Slydell]

Yeah, because Americans don't have any dialects, do they?

 

[Galahad]

Yeah, because Americans don't have any dialects, do they?

Well you do.....I don't....

 

[SC Minnie]

It irritates me to watch a movie where the actors have 'fake' accents and over do it. Especially a southern accent.

 

[cardaway]

You're complaining that the people had English accents in a movie about Princess Diana? Did you ever hear her speak?

You don't have to leave the US to find accents that are hard to understand. I use the subtitles all the time when a show includes people from the NE and SE. I've had to have many people at WDW repeat themselves and they had me repeat things as well.

 

[minnieandmickeymouse]

I love hearing different accents don't know why, but I do. Even american accents! What I really find funny are people on American shows like House where someone sounds like they are American, only to hear them in an interview and they have a brit accent! I find that neat also!

 

[diznygirl]

I had a friend from Boston who swore up and down that she did NOT have an accent! LOL! Just say "dollar" or "car" one more time for me please!!

Yup - AMERICANS all have accents. Better get used to it.

 

[JennyMominRI]

Isn't it us with the accent.. I mean it was British accented long before we Americans butchered it <G>

 

[cactus]

I always thought everyone had an accent except for Northern Ohioans.

but I may be wrong...
now I realize I'm wrong...

 

[SC Minnie]

I always thought everyone had an accent except for Northern Ohioans.

but I may be wrong...
now I realize I'm wrong...

DH is from Cleveland and he does have an accent. I don't of course.

 

[luvmydogs]

Well, I guess I'll second Bob's use of this smilie.

You do realize that there are different dialects/accents/coloquialisms all across *America*? Heck, I moved from NE PA to GA, and when I went to have the insurance switched on my car, I could barely understand the man with whom I was speaking--and we were both Americans. And why on earth would there be a movie about Princess Diana *without* an English Accent--she was English. You can't possibly be that egocentric to feel that they should've spoken in any other manner, can you? "God save the Queen--Y'ALL!"

Well, at least Colonel Klink spoke English.

 

[mickeyfan2]

How many Americans like me absolutly cannot stand watching movies where EVERY single character speaks with a heavy accent? I find it so annoying and I start to get anxious for the movie to end! Nothing against Brits, but I simply couldn't wait for Lifetime's movie of Princess Diana to end not because I wasn't interested (I Love Princess Diana) but because the accents were driving me crazy! I was like: can't...one...person...talk...normal......

Please inform me of what is normal. We stole English from the Brits, so the way the talk seems normal to me.

 

[Bob Slydell]

Well you do.....I don't....

None of us midwesterners (well, except for those annoying Chicagoans ) do.

 

[va32h]

This is a joke, right? Complaining because a movie that is entirely about British people features...British people? Speaking with British accents?

 

[Crankyshank]

I don't mind accents at all (I'm a big fan of the A&E movie series so tons of British accents there). What I do mind are fake accents. Especially people trying to speak with any sort of New England accent. Any Stephen King movie is sure to make me cringe.

 

[RealMickeysGirl]

Accents don't bother me at all. I love watching BBC.

I am thinking about learning spanish and if I do, I will probably watch the spanish language channels on tv just to help me learn.

 

[sha_lyn]

You do realize that there are different dialects/accents/coloquialisms all across *America*? Heck, I moved from NE PA to GA, and when I went to have the insurance switched on my car, I could barely understand the man with whom I was speaking--and we were both Americans

LOL this thread, and especially the above post reminds me of a conversation I just had with a friend. She was born/raised in southern California. Moved to GA when her DD was in Kindergarten. She was complaining that everyone who teaches should be tested to make certain that they didn't speak with an accent because her DD had a hard time understanding the teacher. I told her that everyone speaks with an accent and she argued with me. She then said that if a computer were speaking it would talk like she did, and not like I or the teacher did. I kept listening to her and finally said OK, if you do not speak with an accent, then please say kindergarten. She had to really think about the word to say it correctly (she says "kin-de-gar-den" ).
Then she argued with me that what she said was in "slang" and was not said with an accent.