Where in the world...

[shortguy]

I'm not a big fan of the Appalachian accent personally.

Most people don't. It's an acquired taste.

Then again, linguists say that it seems to be the closest thing to the old Queen's English left in the states.

I thought that was an urban legend.

 

[Israelite9191]

From what I remember reading it isn't just an urban legend, although some New England accents are supposed to be close seconds. In the remote Kentucky Appalachians there is also supposed to still be an obvious Gaelic influence in the accent, although I have no experience of this.

 

[Dachs]

Having spent most of my summers since I moved to NoVA in the Appalachians, I really haven't noticed...then again, I haven't really been listening.

If anything, I personally have a Midwestern accent.

 

[Jono]

I have a mildly British accent.

 

[silver 2039]

I don't have an accent.

 

[Kozmos]

I can imitate many accents.

 

[Oruc]

Very true. American telivision, with the exception of few excellent shows such as Seinfeld, Becker, and Frasier, is pure drivel. The Brits, on the other hand, seem very capable of producing consistently good shows over and over. And then, the Americans come in, steal the concept, and make it crap.

American shows are better and the thing about accents if you can actually speak you will have an accent.

 

[Disenfrancised]

And I'll just put in everyone I know now.

. London, south of the river currently . So there are no other southern panises about? (I don't really count either having spent most of growing up in places other than the south of england).

As to British TV shows I think the apparent increased average quality might be due due to much shorter seasons of 6-8 episodes normaly (outside of vomitous soaps); the money and writing that would be spread across 20-22 episodes in the US is concentrated.

 

[Adrogans]

ON Location - so no one else from the craptastic city of Las Vegas? ah well I wont be here too much longer. In a year or so we will be moving to Colorado ao my wife can pursue her masters and I can figure out what mine is going to be.

ON TV - I think the reason TV quality has dropped (though there are several gems if you look House on Fox, Rome on HBO was great, but the BBC killed it...stupid issues, Mythbusters on Discovery to name a few imo) is simply that there are so many channels that if you make a pos show and it gets .5% of America its a success now. As for British being better...eh I Think there are good shows everywhere, but by far most of television is pure unadulterated crap.

 

[North King]

I have a distinctly Midwestern accent--though that's for all intents and purposes the American accent. And I manage to maintain it despite living in an area where half the people have a very obvious "Yooper" accent, which would be best described as a mixture of redneck and Canadian (it's hideous, BTW ). I can also imitate a variety of accents, badly.

 

[Oruc]

All us English types should have some sort of meet-up (not you kal'thzar your scottish)

 

[Azale]

Yea, but it should be somewhere neutral...like Bermuda or Iceland.

I get BBCAmerica, and the best things on that show are Whose Line is it Anyway...and Robin Hood. I dunno if I'm buying into the best tv shows ever theory

 

[Disenfrancised]

Yea, but it should be somewhere neutral...like Bermuda or Iceland.

I get BBCAmerica, and the best things on that show are Whose Line is it Anyway...and Robin Hood. I dunno if I'm buying into the best tv shows ever theory

Perhaps you didn't read the 'average higher quality' we're speculating about then, not 'best ever' . And neither of those are what I'd consider particularly good .

 

[Azale]

I know, I think BBC is ripping off it's American viewers

 

[Thlayli]

I came into this thread strongly hoping that it would be about Carmen Sandiego.

 

[Kal'thzar]

All us English types should have some sort of meet-up (not you kal'thzar your scottish)

Some would be hard placed to know the difference; I come from a middle class area of Aberdeen...which means my accent is borderline English/American/Scottish. Having been mistaken for an Irish, american and a Englishman, but not a Scot yet....

either that or my swiss mum and english dad.

anyway, the point is; IF YOU DON'T INVITE ME I'LL FEED ON YOUR STOMACH!

 

[jeps]

Not his kidney/intestine cooked IN his stomach?

 

[Kal'thzar]

Well, no.

I Could go the whole hog and dice up his innards, mix it with oats and serve warm. But I think he should still be alive to witness me eating it, so I might just fill it with sheep innards.