The questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XII

[GenMarshall]

I've learned that humans can be bastards at times.

 

[azzaman333]

I've learned that humans can be bastards at times.

 

[Arakhor]

I love the cartoon!

 

[Mango Elephant]

This is mostly a question to people from the UK/Ireland, but really to anyone foreign (from a US perspective):

Do all of you find our accents as weird-sounding as we find yours? Like, do you imitate our accent and go 'Hehe, I'm an American!'?

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

Why are there two very different maps of the dwarf planet Pluto (This one and this one ), and then a modified version of the first map?

 

[Tee Kay]

This is mostly a question to people from the UK/Ireland, but really to anyone foreign (from a US perspective):

Do all of you find our accents as weird-sounding as we find yours? Like, do you imitate our accent and go 'Hehe, I'm an American!'?

Here we get so much American television that American accents really don't sound weird at all.

 

[Glassfan]

We have our own regional dialects, but Hollywood and Television promote American Midwestern, from where many LA and NYC talents originate, and the greatest number of speakers exist.

 

[Lord Baal]

Here we get so much American television that American accents really don't sound weird at all.

I actually find it a little strange when I hear an Australian accent on an American show now. Like Melissa George's recent appearances in Lie To Me, and Chase on House. I doubt I'm the only one.

 

[Yared]

I actually find it a little strange when I hear an Australian accent on an American show now. Like Melissa George's recent appearances in Lie To Me, and Chase on House. I doubt I'm the only one.

Cultural imperialism?

 

[Lord Baal]

Cultural imperialism?

It's kind of weird. I can hear Australian accents on Australian television shows without batting an eyelid. Kiwi accents as well. But throw an antipodean accent in a British or American show on Australian tv and I do a double-take. I'm not as bad with movies, but that's probably because I already know the cast and therefore somewhat expect the Australian accent in most cases.

 

[really]

As has been said we hear it so often it doesn't seem that odd.

I used to work with lots of people from North Carolina and hearing that accent was always a novelty.

I suppose anything other than the TV standard accent is a bit odd to us.

For the record: I have a thick bogger accent.

Edit: an accent that always cracked me up is the French Canadian one.

 

[Arakhor]

I easily parse the Californian/New York accent, from all the American TV I've seen. Certain Deep South accents still set my teeth on edge. Australian/Canadian/South African etc. accents are still noticeable on British TV though.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Why are there two very different maps of the dwarf planet Pluto (This one and this one ), and then a modified version of the first map?

The same reason there are two models for progression of vesicles through the Golgi apparatus.

 

[nonconformist]

I.e scientists are boring people with no lives whose whole meaning is to prove themselves marginally smarter than other people.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Yeah, what have they done anyway? Bunch of tossers. Welp, off to go watch Internet videos of PC games.

 

[Cull]

What's an infraction?

 

[Zelig]

What's an infraction?

Basically the same as an infarction.

 

[Mathilda]

On CFC infraction is a warning given by a moderator that carries a weight depending on severity of rule breaking.
Typical infractions are worth 0-3 points, and stay on your record anywhere from 10 days to indefinitely. If you accumulate 8 points, you are banned for a week.

Advertisers get an infraction worth 60 points and are permanently banned.

 

[spryllino]

Mango Elephant, yes, definitely. People put on American accents often enough for a rhetorical point of some kind or to make fun of Americans they don't like or find funny. Sometimes people put on American accents to suggest their conformation to some American stereotype, particularly a sort of "gangster" persona, or to draw an implicit comparison, even a favourable comparison, to someone in a film. Sometimes, even, people use a slightly American accent to emphasise that they aren't posh.

What sort of situations do people use British accents in in America?

Cull, an infraction is when you are warned by a moderator that you are one step closer to being banned.

 

[Mango Elephant]

Mango Elephant, yes, definitely. People put on American accents often enough for a rhetorical point of some kind or to make fun of Americans they don't like or find funny. Sometimes people put on American accents to suggest their conformation to some American stereotype, particularly a sort of "gangster" persona, or to draw an implicit comparison, even a favourable comparison, to someone in a film. Sometimes, even, people use a slightly American accent to emphasise that they aren't posh.

That's awesome! I love being imitated!

What sort of situations do people use British accents in in America?

Usually when we want to sound snotty. Sometimes we just do it because it sounds funny.