Lost

“Who's confused now?”

“you are”

“LNS, if you really wanna know about the accent thing i could tell you, but it might be a long winded boring explaination”

“Well now you've got me curious. So go for it. You can email it to me if you don't want to post it. Address is in my profile”

“here goes:

there is a time frame in your development that is critical for language skills. it's roughly 6-12 years old i believe.
kids who are exposed to sounds during that time period have a much better chance of reproducing them later on in life.

in other words, if a child is exposed to german during those years they will have a very good chance of "picking up" on german later on in life if they try to learn it, and speak it much better than someone who did not hear german during those few childhood years.

so an american actor who may have a genius IQ and study hard for years will still have a hard time speaking with an accent if they never heard it during those critical childhood years.

europeons and asians have much more exposure to english at a young age then vice versa.

make sense?
last edited: 12/03/04 12:36:11 PM”

“Yeah makes a lot of sense actually. Very interesting. Here in Texas everyone is exposed to Spanish all their life. While I speak or understand very little. I find it easier to grasp than other languages. In fact while I was in France in the service I found that I could make out what some signs and even some newspaper stories said because of the similarities between the two languages (both being Latin in origin). That being said I still don't understand how you can just completely drop your accent. Being a Texan I naturally have the famous Texas draw. Although it's not as exaggerated as you see in movies or on TV. I imagine that when I speak Spanish or the little bit of French that I can remember that there is a still a little hint of Texan behind the accent. For instance because of the time I spent in England I can fake a damn good English accent and even a decent Aussie and Scottish, but a true Englishman would be able to tell that I was not British because they would recognize that I didn't have the regional emphasis. What I mean is someone from New Castle, England's accent is a lot different then say someone from London or Birmingham, England. So where my "English Accent" may fool the average Joe American it would never fool an Englishman nor would my Spanish accent fool someone from Mexico. Anyway to make my point I've noticed some actors can just drop their accent entirely with out any hint. Daniel Day Lewis for example is a master of this. I know a lot of it is just talent, but it just seems easier for Europeans than Americans. See what I'm getting at?
last edited: 12/03/04 1:14:54 PM”

“it's on. I am sure you all know...but best part...sawyer is on right now... yeah babyeeeeee”

“Well I'm certainly not convinced at all that Locke is bad in any way. Obviously we know Ethan's bad, but why does he want the girl? What does it have to do with her being pregnant?

And most importantly

Why isn't there a new episode on next week?”

“I think they want breeding stock.”

“remember in the last part the psychic was really worried about the child. It needed to be raised by her. If not that would mean great danger for what? the human race? Something evil.

I thought the whole story would end up somehow with the child...but I still don't have it figured out yet how...

I just don't buy the whole illness, disease theory.”

“It was the season finale.


I'm not venturing a guess. I'm terrible at figuring these things out.”

“huh? season finale? already??
no way?? Oh, now way!! That was too quick.Only show I am watching lately. I miss every other show.”

“Tonight's episode sucked. Only because they never once showed Claire. (sigh)”

“i thought this weeks episode was pretty "eh" for the first half, but got better for the second half.

pretty funny how locke keeps splitting up the group.”

“WHAT?! Season finale? Those Bassturds!”

“I don't think so, cause it would have been billed as such...I'm thinking its a holiday break, plus its good marketing to go back to the beginning for anybody getting tuned in late. Nah...I don't see that as the finale...”

“You guys scared me!

I was in Mexico last week but set my vcr. Yeah, boring episode for the last bit. Boy! I thought Charlie was a goner. I'm glad he didn't die. I was starting to like the little Hobbit.”

“So what's the story? Do we get a Lost tomorrow?”

“You can get lost right now lady!”

“had to do it.”

“You can get lost right now, young lady!

LOL.”

“Hey! What happened last night? I missed it!”

“Reruns.

Reruns next week too.
last edited: 12/23/04 12:32:30 PM”

“repeats!”

“there not reruns if you haven't seen them”

“Actually Ewker your having seen them or not has nothing to do with their being reruns. If you haven't seen them then they would not be "rewatched" but you do not run the episode the network does so since they had been run previously they are reruns.

That's your english lesson for the week.
last edited: 12/23/04 12:37:12 PM”

“Oh thank goodness. I would hate to miss an episode. I forgot to set my vcr before I went to my friend's Wheel of Fortune party. He's on tonights show. We watched the tape of it last night.”

“Argh.”

“Bison

semantics”

“Semantics - a term used by people who don't know what they're talking about to make themselves feel better about their lack of mastery of the english language.”

“Bison=typical northern a$$hole =)”

“Ewker = easy to goad southerner :)”

“You think this is bad... Where's the 2nd season of Deadwood? It's been months...”

“It sounds like a civil war in here.”

“They ain't nuthin' civil about it!”

“I'm a dam Yankee. Yous a bunch of rednecks! LOL! (jk)”

“pixie, your in fairyland”

“no goading at all, just confirming what I have known all along about Yankees =)”

“pixie - you may be a Yankee but you are not a damn Yankee unless you move to the South”

“HOI - If I live in the North but date a Southerner can I still be a damn yankee?”

“It only means you're dating up.”

“I wasn't sure if "damn" would come out ok, but I guess I didn't have to leave the "n" off. LOL!
What if I live in Southern California? Does that count?”

“West of the Mississippi is neither.”

“Gen. Hood might take issue with that, currahee!”

“I'm a dam yankee. being from the philly/ny area and now living in SE Missouri. I'll NEVER move back east...on to Estes Park Co for my 50th birthday.”

“When is Estes Park?

My very first AARP card came in today's mail.”

“Tell General Hood to come and see me!!”

“Don't forget that it's back on tonight with a two hour Alias right after.”