At least one of the Brits around here has complained on multiple occasions that the accent of the character of Daphne Moon on Frasier is, in one way or another, wrong. I seem to recall something about her having a London accent when it should be Manchester, or something like that? Well, anyway, I noticed, during the season finale of the show, that Daphne's relatives all seemed to have, at least as far as my ears could tell, approximately the same accent as each other, but it was decidedly not the same as Daphne's accent. Can anyone explain just what accent they did have? I've asked a few Americans what they thought, w/o much coming to light. Has the ep already aired in Britain? Do you guys have anything to say about it?
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Posted by Hobbes (Member # 138) on :
To the average American any english accent would sound the same and we wouldn't notice the difference. The show's producers are the same, as long as it sounds British is all that's important.
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Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :
Wow, talk about nihilism...
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Posted by Saiyanman Benjita (Member # 122) on :
nihilism???
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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
To generalize, the belief that nothing really matters, and who cares about anything, and why don't you just quit bugging me, ok?
Anyway, I'm an American, and I can tell the difference between various English accents. I couldn't tell you which one's which, but I can tell that they're different. At least, some of them. There may be some that are sufficiently close to each other, that I don't even realize that there's a difference I'm not noticing...
Well, I noticed it in this case, anyway! *L*
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Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :
Yes, years of watching "Monty Python" and other british television (me mum's a bit of an anglophile, the poor dear) taught me that there is more than one British accent, just as there is more than one "USA" accent.
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Posted by Hobbes (Member # 138) on :
I agree, there's northern accents, southern accents, and western accents. I was saying that while an American would recognize the difference, he would not so easily recognize the difference in European accents.
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Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :
Those of us who, as stated above, have watched Britt TV over the years, know the difference, but not nessasarily where each accent is from.
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