!I have to agree with you about the US/Canada accents - I don't know the difference yet eitherAussie_Dreamer wrote: killjoy, I suppose it is hard to pick up the difference betwen a Brit accent and an Aussie one. If you don't really hear either. It's like Canada and the US. We can't tell the difference...well, I can't.
.Yeah, Giles and Spike do use some good British phrases, although I'd be careful how you use them (especially the British swear words) - I've seen some rather interesting fanfic quotes from them before, like 'bloke' being used as a derogatory term or using the phrase 'shagging hell' (no such phrase exists as far as I know)Aussie Dreamer wrote:If you want some great Brit phrases - listen to Spike or Giles talk. Especially Spike.
.Also, it's best to keep in mind that although Spike's accent is passable as English, there is not a single person in our country that talks like that (it's a mixture of a northern and a Cockney accent and something totally different)!
To be honest, although the general English stereotype is quiet, reserved and tea drinking, we're actually more like your stereotype - we drink a lot (too much, probably - we have the highest teenage binge-drinking rates in Europe), swearing a lot and going crazy over football!Aussie Dreamer wrote:And I don't know about them, but we're fairly ...vocal sometimes. As a stereotype, we get drunk a lot, we swear a lot, we're sports mad...
For me, one out of three ain't bad...I'll leave you guys to guess which one.
Actually, in the end, they did like it. Only a couple of days after I heard the advert had been banned, I read an article saying they'd changed their minds, and the commercial has been showing here for a couple of months now.Aussie Dreamer wrote:Our latest tourist campaign - which was banned in England for this, btw - ends with 'So where the bloody hell are you?'
I like it, but they didn't.
I was noticing the other day they were showing an OC special again, and interviewing everyone after season 1.
When I watch an American show, I think nothing of the accent.
Same with an Australian show.
Ah, good old 'Jim Robinson' as Caleb in The OC!! Speaking of The OC - Benjamin McKensie (Ryan) is at this moment less than half a mile from my house - filming a movie (haven't seen him though, they're filming in the local castle and you can't see anything from the road)!Aussie Dreamer wrote:But when you put an Aussie in an interview with Americans and you hear them talk, it's like, 'do we really sound like that?'
Same with Lost. Emilie and Kimberley (only one of which we really know at all) sound so different...exaggerated, sometimes...next to the others.
) ...supremely jealous.
) and then i have four days of work experience... my hours are 10-3 ... and i get paid... heyy five bux a day aint much, but its still $$$$
that works out to a buck an hour....)