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Wednesday, February 5, 2025

old movies

 Charles Gray



https://www.reddit.com/r/JamesBond/comments/1fb1xb9/it_was_me_james_all_along_i_was_your_brother_but/

Anyone British,  actually, if you severely limit the accent to a very, very small part of the UK, and to actors overacting.
Charles Gray gives a lecture (a 30 second one) on "Horror."
It's a movie from G0d-knows-where that my mind slapped into my mind's projector to wake me up today.

"Horror" rhymes with "HoTTer" in the UK movies I'm thinking of, 

but drilling down examples of how people pronounce "Horror" in places where 
"R" is almost never spoken (I'm thinking, "Japan") would be too massively huge of a project no one would care about.
A classic-movie theater no one goes to but bugs and winos, until it closes from years of neglect.

"Well, that was a good movie, how odd," was my reaction, 
And then I remembered it was all an advertisement to get off my ass to go to the lobby and pee.







Tik-Tok has lots of asian accent links...

https://www.tiktok.com/@loveenglish.uk/video/7296567208967294241
Reddit too:
https://www.reddit.com/r/horror/comments/58p708/how_do_you_pronounce_horror/

This overdone video (it didn't need music) proves people in the UK can say "R" and add free vowels whenever they feel like it. 

*This* video is an exercise in hypocrisy, sort of...a pedantic-type can say "R" to teach an accent but hidden in his patter are the ways he really talks
(shoat instead of "Short")

And god love you googling an accent by the spelling, it's damn near impossible.

Roit propah aksent spulled ba da wuhds, it's impossibo, mait



And people who love to hear themselves talking slowly is grating.
The best ones use real people, not trumped-up sounds they explain forever.


Other than the new term of the day "Non-Rhotic"
I'm severely not finding much, 

"Add Caption"
(nevermind)



it's deteriorating into an accent demonstration peppered by US-people preaching the correct pronunciations.
You could make zillions, I swear, with your own special accent (from Wales or wherever)

But it *can* get annoying, as I shall now demonstrate 





The huge gigantic gargantuan (did I mention "enormous"?) theater downtown has rant-worthy blogs if you felt that this blog-entry was beneath you.
After the obligatory Trump sharts, 

A well paid writer who people look up to, who google adores.
and I glossed over because it was there (why?)
(Link)

365 comments and counting.
ONE of those comments mentioned "Google Mesh" and the old Train-of-thought started cranking up...
How much is an upper-crust, RTG cat toilet that (prolly) uses Google mesh?
Cats already know how to shit, and well-trained pets hit the yard (not the street to become pizzas)

"OK google, flush the toilet."





bugs & winos...(nevermind)


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