Re: USAGE: English, Masculine, Feminine

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>

> Phillippe> What I meant is that when I listen so some English
> Phillippe> people (not all of them, clearly), I feel a sheer
> Phillippe> pleasure . . .
Mark uarlo krespr:
> Many Americans agree with you; an RP accent is generally considered
> sexy over here.  Sadly, the reverse does not seem to be true; Americans
> reportedly just "sound like people from the telly" in the UK.  Ah, well.
I suppose you could say the same for some American perception of the
English: they "sound like the villains in television science fiction shows."
:)

I'm pretty good with accents; took lots of acting in high school and
college; but if I were to adopt ("fake") a British accent, I'd like it to be
Swansea Welsh, or s l i g h t l y  lower class London.  None of this plummy
Oxbridge accent for me!  The various London accents have a real richness,
especially as they approach the Cockney.  But I heard it from the horse's
mouth-- a colleague of mine with a lower class London accent deliberately
sought academic jobs in America because he wasn't taken seriously in
England.  Over here, he's perceived as sexily British.

I wonder if the English are as tone deaf to differences in American accents
as we are to British accents?

Sally
scaves@frontiernet.net
ta tobre... "whatever"

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