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Jun. 26th, 2006 02:53 amJohn's drawl. It gets mentioned in a lot of SGA fic. Tends to be described as Southern. Joe Flanigan is from Arizona Nevada (thanks for the correction in the comments, my memory, she is *tricksy*). He does have a drawl. It's just not a Southern drawl. The principle is the same. The vowels get kind of stretched out. The way the get stretched out, though, is different.
The way I hear it, a Southern drawl would turn Rodney into more of a Rawdnay. With Joe it's more of a Raaadney, the O sounding closer to the short A in bad or sad. If Southern drawls tend to round out vowels, Joe's drawl tends to flatten them.
What I really find fascinating is the whole Canadian accent. Whenever you hear people making fun of Canadian accents it always goes back to the whole saying about like aboot thing, but really, I've only heard like two Canadian actors do that to the point that I actually noticed it happening, and they were both nameless extras in some random Due South episode.
What I did notice was the way they pronounce their L's. They kind of curl their tongues more when saying that letter than Americans do. I first noticed it in Due South and assumed it was just a Paul Gross thing until I noticed that David Hewlett kind of did it too, Torri Higginson did it really obviously, and it showed up in varying degrees throughout the entire cast of Traders.
Both of my parents are from Trinidad, and though I can pretty much differentiate between Trinidadian and Jamaican I have a hard time drawing distinctions between the rest of the Carribean islands. But then, I didn't grow up there. I grew up in California. My parents never dropped their Trinidad accents. I remember getting made fun of in first grade when I still talked like them. Now if I try to imitate them it just comes out bad and completely off.
I'm completely lost when it comes to English accents, but then I think with tv I've heard more fake accents than real ones.
The way I hear it, a Southern drawl would turn Rodney into more of a Rawdnay. With Joe it's more of a Raaadney, the O sounding closer to the short A in bad or sad. If Southern drawls tend to round out vowels, Joe's drawl tends to flatten them.
What I really find fascinating is the whole Canadian accent. Whenever you hear people making fun of Canadian accents it always goes back to the whole saying about like aboot thing, but really, I've only heard like two Canadian actors do that to the point that I actually noticed it happening, and they were both nameless extras in some random Due South episode.
What I did notice was the way they pronounce their L's. They kind of curl their tongues more when saying that letter than Americans do. I first noticed it in Due South and assumed it was just a Paul Gross thing until I noticed that David Hewlett kind of did it too, Torri Higginson did it really obviously, and it showed up in varying degrees throughout the entire cast of Traders.
Both of my parents are from Trinidad, and though I can pretty much differentiate between Trinidadian and Jamaican I have a hard time drawing distinctions between the rest of the Carribean islands. But then, I didn't grow up there. I grew up in California. My parents never dropped their Trinidad accents. I remember getting made fun of in first grade when I still talked like them. Now if I try to imitate them it just comes out bad and completely off.
I'm completely lost when it comes to English accents, but then I think with tv I've heard more fake accents than real ones.
