04-08-2002 21:10									#61
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quote: Originally posted by chegitz guevara That's Hollywood for you.

Sometimes they try to get it right in the movies but that isn't what movies are about anymore than the sky was swirling when Van Gogh painted Starry Night. The idea is to look right to the viewer without interfering with anything in the movie. However if you watch Tombstone you will see that Val Kilmer worked on a soft Southern accent for Doc. Holiday. It was partly a copy of historian Shelby Foote I think but it was also the work of a coach they hired to get the accent.

Then they pull crap like like when Robert Redford worked to develop a good German accent for that movie set in Africa that he was in. He showed up ready to go and not sound American for the first time in his carear and the director made him speak American.

Sean Connery doesn't adjust at all, ever, whether the movie is Hollywood or Brittish. Michael Caine brags (correctly I think) that he managed to overcome objections to speaking in his own cockney accent. He did however use a different accent in two parts when it was called for. Upper class Brit in his first major role in Zulu and a darn good German accent when he played a German mercenary during the 30 years war in The Last Valley.

	04-08-2002 21:18									#62
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I have to make one statement: Some of you people had the guts to bring up my name in this thread and you will regret that dearly.

	04-08-2002 21:46									#63
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quote: Originally posted by mindseye For instance, I've noticed that my eye contact with other gay guys is usually a split second longer than that with straight guys.

That's also the case between men and women who are interested in each other.

quote: Originally posted by mindseye Gaydar can get messed up when you cross cultural lines.

That reminds me of a joke about a city dweller "chasing" after a farmer because their zones have different sizes. People in the city have a smaller social zone, so the city person keeps moving forward. The farmer on the other hand has a much bigger personal zone that the city person keeps entering, so he keeps backing up.

quote: Originally posted by mindseye Also, straight guys have a lot more physical contact here, so if you see two guys holding hands in public, or hanging around each other's necks, it probably means they are just good friends. Actually, it's quite nice to see, it's too bad American guys have so little physical contact with their friends - seems unnatural.

Men here don't hold hands but apparently Chinese men in the bygone ages did.

	04-08-2002 23:42									#64
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quote: Originally posted by Fez I have to make one statement: Some of you people had the guts to bring up my name in this thread and you will regret that dearly.

I'm sure they're quaking in their boots. Really.

	04-08-2002 23:42									#65
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quote: Originally posted by Ethelred Sounds like you must enunciate more with the back of your tongue instead of the front like Brits do for movies and TV. Where and how you place your tongue and the shape of the back of the mouth and throat are main items in English accents, this even effects the rhythm of speech as it will slow down when the back of the tongue is doing more of the work possibly because of the greater mass and thickness involved.

You're quite right- it all comes from the back of the throat and with a tendency to drawl. It's actually a lot closer to many American accents than the stereotypically clipped and precise "BBC English".

It always confuses Americans. They tend to look puzzled and ask me if I'm Irish. In fact it's a lot less rounded and lilting than most Irish accents, and less nasal than many US ones (particularly North-Eastern US accents).

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quote: Originally posted by Urban Ranger Yuck, Wittlich, your avatar is getting more and more awful all the time

Touche' UR...is this one any better?

	05-08-2002 01:44									#67
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It is terrible Wittlich. I think I am going to have a seizure

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quote: Originally posted by Boris Godunov I'm sure they're quaking in their boots. Really.

Whatever.

Anyways, why bring up my name? Why?

	05-08-2002 03:17									#69
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Why not? Like the women you´re part of a very select group here at Poly...

	05-08-2002 03:21									#70
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quote: Originally posted by Kamrat X Why not? Like the women you´re part of a very select group here at Poly...

Oh you are right, I am center right-wing... so yes I am part of a select political group here... but what does that have anything to do with this thread?

	05-08-2002 03:22									#71
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Oh don't be so coy Giancarlo, you know what they are getting at

	05-08-2002 03:25									#72
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What Provost said...

	05-08-2002 03:29									#73
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No, I really don't know.

	05-08-2002 03:36									#74
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Well, Boris is gay. MrFun is gay. red_jon is gay. See where this is going?

	05-08-2002 03:38									#75
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Isn't coyness something that gay men like?

	05-08-2002 05:36									#76
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@ Imran

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quote: Originally posted by Kamrat X Well, Boris is gay. MrFun is gay. red_jon is gay. See where this is going?

No. Fez does not belong to part of that pattern. Sorry.

	05-08-2002 06:31									#78
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What fez? Are you not proud about your sexual Orientation? Afraid to admit it?

I probably wouldnt either.

	05-08-2002 06:34									#79
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Afraid to admit it? No, I just don't belong to that pattern. Just try and disprove that. Try me.

	05-08-2002 08:01									#80
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Bah, stop picking on Fez. He is bisexual like Asher.

	05-08-2002 08:13									#81
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No, I am not... just somebody who doesn't care because I will never get a relationship. Where is ming to enforce harassment rules when I need him?

	05-08-2002 08:19									#82
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Fez, you're just so much fun to harrass, you little commie homo spaniard fascist lunatic, you.

	05-08-2002 08:23									#83
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Dan... give me a break.... call me all the names you want... but you will get nothing out of me.

	05-08-2002 08:25									#84
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Whatever, Juan manzana

	05-08-2002 08:28									#85
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Get a life... you pompous Iraqi.

	05-08-2002 08:30									#86
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I have a life- It revolves around antagonizing you.

And I'm the only boy in Basrah with a computer, so HA!

	05-08-2002 08:32									#87
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I don't care if you come from Tripoli, I don't want to hear this garbage anymore! As Ming says: CASE CLOSED!

	05-08-2002 08:32									#88
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It's not a big deal, Fez, it's like arguing about having brown hair or something. It's trivial.

	05-08-2002 08:33									#89
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Brown hairy.

	05-08-2002 08:34									#90
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From the halls of montezuma...

You really are hypersensitive. Don't they have drugs for that?