[+] The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power - SPOILERS ALLOWED

[FitzTheRuke]

Being a kiwi I don't usually have trouble with Aussie/Canadian/English or Yank accent and can sometimes get a regional one. We also speak a bit faster I think than USA.

Are you saying that you can tell the difference between a Canadian accent and an American one? I'm not sure I believe it. (I mean, I can see you being able to tell the difference between a Toronto accent and a Brooklyn accent, say, because frankly everyone can (though they might not know that that is what they are) but a general US/CAN average accent?

I'm from Vancouver, and while visiting Japan, I met some Americans who said, "You're Canadian? But you have no accent!", to which I responded "You're just saying that because I sound like people on TV. That's because most people you see on TV are from Vancouver."

It's an exaggeration with some small truth to it.

 

[Ryujin]

Are you saying that you can tell the difference between a Canadian accent and an American one? I'm not sure I believe it. (I mean, I can see you being able to tell the difference between a Toronto accent and a Brooklyn accent, say, because frankly everyone can (though they might not know that that is what they are) but a general US/CAN average accent?

I'm from Vancouver, and while visiting Japan, I met some Americans who said, "You're Canadian? But you have no accent!", to which I responded "You're just saying that because I sound like people on TV. That's because most people you see on TV are from Vancouver."

It's an exaggeration with some small truth to it.

There is a reason why so many American newscasters, over the years, have been Canadian.

 

[Mallus]

There is a reason why so many American newscasters, over the years, have been Canadian.

They've even infiltrated our games shows and rock music!

 

[Ryujin]

Sure but an accent is based on the community you surround yourself with. One family of plummy speakers surrounded by a community of country bumpkins isn’t necessarily going to develop a strong accent in their children if those children are mixing with the farmers and the children.

That said accents can develop according to social circumstances as well. I attended a lecture by the author of the book Peaky Blinders is inspired by and he explained that the Brummie accent became much stronger and defined as a result of immigration into the manufacturing city of Birmingham in the mid 1900’s.

The comedian John Bishop, who has a beautiful Scouse accent explained that his accent became stronger when as a kid his family had their inner city tenements in Liverpool knocked down and they were relocated to the suburbs. His whole community developed a stronger scouse accent because of self consciousness about not being seen as Liverpudlian any more. In his words they became more scouse than scousers.

A nice little video… that also shows off the Bob Bryson’s welsh accent.

On the other hand I would spend a couple of weeks at a rental cottage, in an area frequented by Western New Yorkers, and come home sounding like I was from Rochester.

 

[Ryujin]

They've even infiltrated our games shows and rock music!

You would be quite surprised, if you knew the whole truth. Don't tell anyone...

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Are you saying that you can tell the difference between a Canadian accent and an American one?

You can usually tell by the volume!

 

[Ryujin]

You can usually tell by the volume!

Not necessarily, though. I'm fairly loud (hard of hearing in one ear... is my excuse) and talk with the speed of an auctioneer.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Which is not the case. JK hates the fantasy genre, and has never read any of those.

Parallel evolution is a thing. The author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels apparently never heard of Vampire: the Masquerade before she published, but the show based on her novels, True Blood, basically comes off like World of Darkness: The Very Horny TV Show. Sometimes, certain ideas just make sense to multiple authors independently. (And I don't believe for a minute that those involved in the show didn't have a complete set of oWoD books on hand.)

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Dont watch stuff like that. You'll get more pop ups of similar stuff.

Definitely erase it from your YouTube history ASAP.

 

[Ryujin]

Parallel evolution is a thing. The author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels apparently never heard of Vampire: the Masquerade before she published, but the show based on her novels, True Blood, basically comes off like World of Darkness: The Very Horny TV Show. Sometimes, certain ideas just make sense to multiple authors independently. (And I don't believe for a minute that those involved in the show didn't have a complete set of oWoD books on hand.)

And some things are just so culturally ubiquitous that even if you don't have direct interaction, they can bleed through from other sources.

And as an unintentional "Vampire: The Masquerade" tribute, it was far better than the on purpose "Kindred: The Embraced." Curse Aaron Spelling and his ilk.