18-01-18, 13:04 | #81 | |
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I would've preferred she use the English words, too, but I'm alright with the little things they managed to slip in, like calling Roth a "northern bastard". |
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18-01-18, 13:28 | #82 | |
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18-01-18, 13:35 | #83 |
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Oh, well, forget what I said then.
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18-01-18, 13:38 | #84 |
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Well, I don't think you're wrong about CD using American terms on purpose.
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I am not here to judge (especially in my position as long-time lurker, some-of-the-time poster) but I wonder how many of the people criticising Camilla are actually British?
WAIT! Don't take offence! I'm asking because a lot of my international friends have a very fixed idea of how we Brits speak (a sort of Del Boy inspired 'Cor blimey guvner, up the apples and pears', or 'One is very pleased to have shot you to pieces Mr Mathias. Do please call again soon', a la Queen Elizabeth during her Christmas Day speech). In truth, we have a lot of different accents. London alone has at least four billion (I may be exaggerating for comic effect) and a lot of words are pronounced differently depending on where you're from. As an aside, never get a Northerner and a Southerner into a conversation about how to say the word 'bath' because you'll never leave. On a lighter note, my friend has a party trick where he can tell pretty precisely where someone grew up in London. Anyhoo, Camilla speaks a lot like me and a lot of my friends. Largely because we grew up on a diet of The Simpsons and Futurama. I certainly never noticed anything out of the ordinary while playing the game. |
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Anyway, the percentage of British people who didn't like her voice was larger than non-British people. |
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19-01-18, 01:56 | #87 |
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Well there's liking her voice and distinguishing it as being a British accent.
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19-01-18, 04:15 | #88 | |
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I guess what prompted me to post was the fact people keep bringing up her accent, and yet I have many British friends who have never lived anywhere else, who sound a lot more American than Camilla simply because we have all been brought up on Britney Spears and The Simpsons. Most of my friends don't even realise when they use Americanisms, because they've been saying them so long they've forgotten where they're from. Also, this topic intrigues me because I teach evening classes to non-native speakers who are genuinely fascinated by the difference between British English and American English and ask me all sorts of difficult questions on it. |
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19-01-18, 05:21 | #90 |
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http://www.tombraiderforums.com/showthread.php?t=215457
It's pretty unreliable, as the non-English are about tied if they think she's convincing or not, but more English think she doesn't, than English who do. That said, hey accent sounded the same in Blood Ties, but I just started Baba Yaga and Lara has a few sentences then and they sound distinctly and profoundly different and more British, like she flipped a switch! Certain words sounds so enunciated in a certain way. It's weird. But I wonder if Scottish, Welsh, N./Irish chief as "non-English"? I would think they'd still be a decent source as to if she sounds English (or anything British) or not. |
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