Bleah dubbed versions

[poeticalpanther]

Saw that Gregory's Girl was on tonight on TCM, and remembering it to be a movie I enjoy, I thought I'd record it for later watching. Then I watched a bit of it

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[eustaciavye25]

and though they may actually be Scots, they're in effect faking their own accents into something more US-friendly, and becoming almost Dick-Van-Dyke level parodies in the process.

I love this on so many levels.

[poeticalpanther]

:D Yay!

We should consider that mooted bevvy, sometime soon.

[eustaciavye25]

Yes, we should. I should have some free time coming up this week. I can either call you or you can call me (or e-mail).

[fuzzpsych]

What a horrible thing to do to that movie!

Although, I do recall laughing when we stocked it at Sunrise, that the back of the DVD listed the languages as English and Scottish. Now I understand what they meant.

[poeticalpanther]

Heh - yeah, that's exactly what they meant. The "English" was probably this dubbed version. :/

[hobbitbabe]

That is appalling. I love that movie!

[poeticalpanther]

Me too! It's so sweet, and vaguely feminist, and really true to life in the feelings and dialogue and stuff.

[tekalynn]

Why the hell would anyone DO that? Gah.

[poeticalpanther]

Yeah, that's what I wondered. I presume they'd had a focus group or something, and people complained?

Of course, when people claim that English is all one language, and not at all dialectized, I suggest to them that they put someone from working-class Glasgow together with someone from the Louisiana bayou, and see how much they understand one another. :D

[ruthi]

...here via metaquotes.

People claim that? Real people with actual life-experience? That utterly puzzles me.

[poeticalpanther]

Most of the people I've heard say they don't believe that English has become dialectized are doing so because they wish to resist the idea that their own English may, in fact, be a dialect - which they view as somehow "inferior" to a "real" language. The popular view of linguistic matters rarely holds to a line of scientific rigour that we as linguists might prefer; see "don't split infinitives", et c.. :)

[cmcmck]

Welcome to linguistic imperialism! I mean, corblimey everwun nose that we orl tork like vis in ingland dunnay mate?

'Scuse me while I go an fine me ol' bamboo............

Sigh :o/

[poeticalpanther]

I know! It's such a shame, too, as Mary Poppins would have been brilliantly funny if they'd just dubbed van Dyke with someone who'd actually met an English person, for instance.