Comments | mooncove: Lie to me, Tim Roth

mooncove

Lie to me, Tim Roth

Nov 05, 2010 23:36

I've been meaning to post about this show since last season, but, as with Tim Roth, I've had mixed feelings about the Fox show, Lie to Me, which recently returned from a seemingly inexplicably abrupt hiatus. It's not quite The Mentalist (my favorite show now since the loss of Lost), but the concepts are similarly intriguing: A charismatic ( Read more... )

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rushysgirl November 14 2010, 05:56:57 UTC

He's kinda cute ;D

LOL you're so right about the 'oi!'

I love it when Aussies 'oi!' But you can't beat it said in a Cockney accent! It's purely awesome.

I think sometimes people don't even try to understand other accents. They're so in their own little bubble that the minute that someone speaks a little differently, they dismiss it totally. I think the worst though is people saying 'oh, i don't have an accent,' or 'i wish i had an accent'...everyone has an accent dumbo! That's just so ignorant and silly. I can't believe people think they don't have one! EVERYONE has one!

mooncove November 15 2010, 01:05:16 UTC

Oh, I know, I love the "Oi!" It's just that nobody says it in the U.S. (although Harry Potter fans are all familiar with it--BTW, would you believe the versions of the books sold in the U.S. are actually partially "translated" into American, apparently because we're too dumb or lazy to try to learn the British terminology??? although I have to admit, there are some words in there I couldn't even find in my American-British dictionary, which is now a bit out of date!), so it makes Cal (going back to Lie to Me) sound like he's "just off the boat," which he isn't. It seems to me that, as hard as you try, you can't avoid adjusting your speech to the region where you live, even if it's unconscious. Most people with an awareness of the world around them would really have to go out of their way to hang onto their original accent and vocabulary for that length of time! Maybe I'm not typical, but I really have a hard time not picking up other people's speech patterns if I spend any length of time with them. (In one place I used to work for ( ... )

mooncove November 15 2010, 01:07:45 UTC

LOL, just as I was typing that, a Geico commercial featuring the infamous Gecko came on. If you haven't seen/heard of him, he's one of the insurance company's many ad campaign characters (I don't know how they can afford to pay claims with all they spend on advertising; in other words, from what a friend told me, they don't!), and he talks for some inexplicable reason in a Cockney accent (according to Wikipedia because "it would be unexpected"). The funny thing about this is there's a recent commercial in which the question of where the Gecko is from comes up ... which is kind of making fun of the fact that most Americans can't tell the difference between a British (especially Cockney) versus an Australian (versus a New Zealand) accent. I went to the Geico website to try to find the video, and they have a slew of their various ads on there, but that one isn't. The best one I could find is this one on YouTube. Hopefully, you'll get a kick out of it since it's blatantly obvious--at least to me and you--that he's British.