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| subject: | Re: OT Anybody been watching Doctor Who? |
On Jun 25, 2:10=A0pm, Josh Hill wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:57:36 GMT, Amy Guskin > wrote: > > >How is that? =A0Is anybody watching it? =A0Has Billie Piper dropped the = Estuary > >English for the role? > > >I don't get Showtime, but I'm on some of their mailing lists, and just b= efore > >this show started airing they sent me an offer to preview the first two > >episodes. =A0But the link didn't work (and yes, Mac user here, but I did= check > >it on my Windows PC as well). =A0So I haven't managed to see any of it. > > Speaking of English, is anyone else bothered by the BBC's > democratization of accents? It's very cute and all, but it doesn't > seem convincing in the case of the Doctor, who is, after all, a lord > of sorts and an educated man. More to the point, half the time, my > poor American ears can't make out what the characters are saying! An Englishman's way of speaking Absolutely classifies him The moment he talks He makes some other Englishmen despise him One common language I'm afraid we'll never get Oh why can't the English learn to Set a good example To people whose English is painful to your ears The Scots and the Irish leave you close to tears There even are places where English completely disappears In America they haven't used it for years --- SBBSecho 2.12-Win32* Origin: Time Warp of the Future BBS - Home of League 10 (1:14/400) SEEN-BY: 10/1 3 34/999 106/1 120/228 123/500 140/1 222/2 226/0 249/303 250/306 SEEN-BY: 261/20 38 100 1404 1406 1410 1418 266/1413 280/1027 320/119 393/11 SEEN-BY: 396/45 633/104 260 267 690/682 734 712/848 800/432 801/161 189 SEEN-BY: 2222/700 2320/100 105 109 200 2905/0 @PATH: 14/400 5 140/1 261/38 633/260 267 |
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