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Actually, there's a Boston dialect -- if my memory serves, found among those whose families came over centuries ago and were (and still are) very wealthy -- which is *very* English. (The joys of taking History of the English Language my last semester).
quote:Originally posted by Guardian 2000: I agree. This is Big-Nose KITT.
Part of the charm was that he looked kinda badass, but not like he was going to physically consume other vehicles. This thing looks like it has a maw that could swallow a dozen starships.
I also don't get how the new car has two strobe lights, as this somehow demonstrates it is better than the original KITT.
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quote:Originally posted by Ritten: Now all we need is for BJ and the Bear to be redid.
No. No we don't.
Not when we still have gems like Manimal or Matt Houston begging a dystopian update. Remington Steele: the next generation?
BRING BACK GIL GERARD! yes, I have seen him lately, and it is horrific
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quote:Originally posted by Malnurtured Snay: Actually, there's a Boston dialect -- if my memory serves, found among those whose families came over centuries ago and were (and still are) very wealthy -- which is *very* English. (The joys of taking History of the English Language my last semester).
I suppose it's a matter of perspective. To a yank I suppose he would sound English, but to a Englishman like myself he was just a posh yank. Perhaps a third party is needed, any Aussies, Canadians or mainland Europeans care to weigh in their opinions?
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Well if you had a leather trouser wearing 'Hoff sitting inside you all day, trying to be funny, you'd probably come off a bit snippy too. Or not. Whatever makes you happy.
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That wasn't mid-atlantic. Mid-atlantic is absolutely horrible upon the ear. It's nauseating. Mid-atlantic is a nesh English southerner who says barth instead of bath and car-sel instead of castle and does so while sounding as though they've only partially swallowed a large soft fruit, talking with a California valley girl twang and making too much use of phrases that begin with "oh" and end in an "!" all the time.
I feel physically ill listening to the worst offenders, who are usually middle-class Londoners who emigrated and tried to assimilate by copying the natives.
So no, the original voice was definately not mid-atlantic. He was far, far better than that!
I'd like to round off this rant against my southern dwelling British fellows by turning my ire upon the American car industry. This car they're using... would this be the same car that utilises leaf springs and calls it suspension? The same car with a plastic body shell that flexs when you lean against it and the same car with seats less comfortable than being dragged behind a horse along a cobbled street, and a quality of interior plastics that haven't been used in the rest of the Western world since the 1970s?
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