I think it's like anything else: you can't learn it if you don't practice. I see no need to soften accents, dialects, idioms, or cultural phrases. That's how you learn about other cultures. Man, I certainly hope this shrinking globe due to tech doesn't mean the whole Earth will become a bland, American-sounding whitewashed landscape.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Baxter" <truthseeker...@hotmail.com> To: "SciFiNoir2" <scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 3:20:52 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] "Demons" on BBC America - What did you think? Mr Worf, the thought of that depresses me no end. I don't have problems with UK accents, because I ahve so many friends from there. I understand the inherent problems that others might have, though. "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:17:33 -0800 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] "Demons" on BBC America - What did you think? I think that it was so it would appeal more to Americans. They do a lot of stuff like that in marketing. That's why most of the BBC America shows have softer accents so the Americans can understand them. On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Martin Baxter < truthseeker...@hotmail.com > wrote: Same here, Keith. I'm watching it, but with only one eye. Still trying to puzzle out why they had to make Philip Glenister's character American. "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:46:08 +0000 Subject: [scifinoir2] "Demons" on BBC America - What did you think? Did anyone catch the premier of this show a couple of weeks ago, after the Dr. Who finale? I wasn't really overwhelmed with it. It had some good moments, but the plot seemed a bit rushed. I also couldn't quite get the tone right; or, I couldn't tell if it was going to be serious, scary adult drama, or toned down a bit to apply to a younger crowd. Of course, the British can handle tonal shifts in a single show better than anyone, so maybe I'll give it a chance. But so far, no one really drew me in. http://www.bbcamerica.com/content/391/index.jsp On the surface Luke Rutherford (Christian Cooke) is every bit the average teenager, but with the arrival of his dead father’s best friend Rupert Galvin ( Philip Glenister ), Luke’s life is about to change. Galvin has come to inform Luke that his father’s death fifteen years ago wasn’t an accident, and that he holds a secret destiny as the great-great grandson of Abraham Van Helsing, the vampire hunter in Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Now Luke must carry the torch and do battle against the inhumans and the freaks that walk among us, but he must keep it all hidden and maintain his normal life as a son and a student. To train Luke in his quest, Galvin calls on the beautiful but icy Mina Harker ( Zoe Tapper ), a blind concert pianist with a history. She also happens to be the foremost authority on the undesirable entities preying on humanity. The sinister and moldering Father Simeon ( Richard Wilson ) is Luke’s other counselor on the lore and myths behind the creatures he faces. Luke’s first opponent is the villainous Gladiolus Thrip ( Mackenzie Crook ), a “type 12” vampire with a burning hatred for the Van Helsing line. The list of terrifying adversaries grows with the cockroach-munching “type 5” called Redlip ( Martin Hancock ); a “type 9” child-snatching demon-in-angel’s clothing called Gilgamel ( Rick English ); and the half-man half-rat Mr. Tibbs ( Kevin McNally ), who bears a deep and personal grudge against a member of the team. Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. Get it now. -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. Get it now.
