Re: happy new year!

Going the other direction, Hugh Laurie on "House" does a nearly
flawless job of sounding American to my native Leftpondian ears.

Henrik:
Texan is definitely a distinctive variety, but why is it "scary"?
Maybe it's just that there have been a lot of scary well-known
Texans...

On 1/2/07, daniel prohaska <danielprohaska@...> wrote:
> It's been ages since I've seen Magnum, but as far as I can remember he's not
> bad, though there's a little giveaway in almost every sentence. Americans
> usually have a tough time keeping RP /A:/, /O:/ and /Q/ apart. The melody
> tends to be off as well. One of the more recent disasters in US to UK accent
> emulation were Joaquin Phoenix in "Gladiator" and even worse Keanu Reeves in
> "Dracula" (that was the pits!). ;-)
>
> Dan
>
>
>
>
> From: Henrik Theiling
>
> "Which reminds me:
>
> How British does John Hillerman as 'Higgins' from 'Magnum p.i.' sound to
> native British ears?  He is Texan, and since Texan is (to me) one of the
> most scary variants of English, I was wondering.
>
> **Henrik"
>

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>

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