Comments on: can i drop this

By: Logan

Logan — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 22:30:28 +0000

it doesn’t make a difference, because Gibson did a Scottish accent, not British in Braveheart…

By: Spacemonkey43

Spacemonkey43 — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 05:38:32 +0000

Yep. Fellow Michigander here from the southeastern corner of the state (Metro Detroit area, to be vaguely exact). I went to school on the east coast for a few years with students from all over the country, and, while very few people had strong accents, you’d hear the regional differences. Apparently the very flat vowels (such as milk (which sounds like melk) or bag (which sounds like baeg)) are a Midwestern thing, and a friend from North Carolina (who, incidentally, couldn’t hear a pronunciation difference between pull, pool, and poll/pole, and said y’all and all’y'all far too much) used to point this out, especially in regards to another friend from Minnesota who had a particularly strong Midwestern accent. Getting into arguments over linguistics/pronunciation was never very fun because Mr. North Carolina refused to lose.

I do agree that within Michigan and the Midwest at large, accents vary quite a bit, though they are all identifiable as Midwestern.

As far as Michigan accents and unique phrasing goes, this site is particularly informative:

http://www.michigannative.com/ma_home.shtml

By: Chad O'Dell Roberts

Chad O'Dell Roberts — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 07:15:22 +0000

Hugh’s American accent is a hell of a lot more believeable than Christian Bale’s fake British accent. At least Hugh only does his on a made-up TV show and doesn’t try to pass it off as “real”.

By: Khator

Khator — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:05:35 +0000

Brown? Though admittedly we didn’t actually vote for him…

By: monkey

monkey — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 01:55:07 +0000

scottish accent=sexy

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:44:21 +0000

Fur ee boots a bank quine?

By: who cares

who cares — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:13:51 +0000

Er, just re-read it. Never mind. *slinks back to rock*

By: who cares

who cares — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:13:07 +0000

*geeks* Preposterous.

Not going to bother try and read through all of the comments to see if someone’s already fixed this or not.

By: hrise1841

hrise1841 — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:49:03 +0000

Michiganians don’t have an accent. Ours is the only true english.

By: who cares

who cares — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:50:05 +0000

Damn. Good one.

By: Aerliss

Aerliss — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:47:53 +0000

Except I think he was English. His family were from Shropshire and at the time of his birth, the area he was born in was under English rule.

Could very easily be thinking of someone else though…

By: heather

heather — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:51:24 +0000

*snort*
Especially if you from up North. Eee aye gum, lass. All that jazz

By: Rellik

Rellik — Mon, 18 May 2009 22:55:54 +0000

Well played

By: mackenzie

mackenzie — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 02:40:22 +0000

johnny depp is an incredible actor sortof like heath ledger…

By: kanninhamu

kanninhamu — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:38:28 +0000

Actually, there is a movie like that. Watch “The Borrowers”

By: Zoreta

Zoreta — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 16:58:28 +0000

Yeah, he can somehow take on an accent and have it sound somewhat authentic.

By: Spiederman

Spiederman — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 05:24:38 +0000

Hey. hey don’t be jealous. We had Bush. (/sarcasm)

By: KittyB

KittyB — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:59:16 +0000

I love, love, LOVE Hugh Laurie, but couldn’t get through the first episode of House because of the accent. It’s just wrong. Not bad, just RONG.

And yes, everyone should be MADE to watch ‘A Bit of Fry and Laurie’. Excellent stuff.

Soupytwist!

By: Elx

Elx — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:07:31 +0000

Which I don’t think he does, because who would enjoy having to conciously think about everything you say just to get an accent right

By: Mrs_Z

Mrs_Z — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:24:40 +0000

I’m pretty sure Mr. Laurie would say “may I,” not “can I.”

By: rareblogger

rareblogger — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 04:00:07 +0000

Second that…I don’t hear Hugh Laurie’s accent on House. Us silly Americans can’t understand it when he sounds so British when he’s accepting awards.

By: Audball

Audball — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:13:51 +0000

Oh yes. His eyes are amazing.

By: bootothat

bootothat — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:45:45 +0000

I think Hugh Laurie also has a lisp…

By: Cloud Appy

Cloud Appy — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:50:40 +0000

Hugh Laurie does an excellent American accent, but occasionally I can tell when he’s trying just a little too hard. The inflections are flat, and the consonants are too harsh.

I love his “real” voice.

By: Audball

Audball — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:25:22 +0000

Yes, her hair now makes me cry. It also scares small children.

By: paul

paul — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:39:13 +0000

absolutely. british people do NOT talk like the queen, for a start. or like any enid blyton character for that matter. i say old chap, fancy a crumpet, wot wot? home james!

By: paul

paul — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:34:04 +0000

he was born in new york and anyway, he’s not scottish! americans always get to be the hero. bloody america, always takes the credit for everything. even took France’s credit for winning the war – twice!! honestly. but anyway, point is, now you know how annoying it is when anoither country tries to impersonate an accent. and america is usually said country. bloody america. gr.

By: boom

boom — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:20:43 +0000

eyes. they pierce me

By: boom

boom — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:19:10 +0000

try “a bit of fry and laurie”. the bruce springsteen impression alone should make you wet your pants.

By: Guess Again

Guess Again — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:29:13 +0000

“Sir, I have a cunning plan.”
“How cunning is it?”
“It’s so cunning, you could stick a tail on it and call it a weasel.”

Anyone? Anyone?

Also, for the clueless people, don’t you think he would be a LITTLE young to be in the original Python crew?

By: Heather

Heather — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:15:50 +0000

english, american, whatever… i love him & the show House… <3 <3 <3

By: AC

AC — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:24:22 +0000

Ditto here.
*Gets whiplash from cringing too much*

By: Ev

Ev — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:09:39 +0000

It’s the hot.

By: kyasarin

kyasarin — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 10:35:34 +0000

Actually, he was doing a purposely crappy English accent for that. Kinda the way James Marsters once “faked” a bad American accent on BtVS. That kind of thing? Never not funny!

By: Leporello

Leporello — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:42:15 +0000

I though Rene did a marvelous accent in ‘allo ‘allo…

By: Nehemah

Nehemah — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 07:52:43 +0000

Makes me think of the episode where he continuously phones another doctor at night and at one point uses his actual British voice. I had a friend tell me that he does a crappy english accent and I burst out laughing at him.

By: Augurey

Augurey — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 19:15:29 +0000

yeah, so preposterous that most of America didn’t realize he wasn’t American until they heard him speaking in his regular accent.

By: Gin

Gin — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:29:11 +0000

Are you sure?
Oh well, we can let them have him. Purely out of the kindness of our hearts, you understand.

By: forge

forge — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:01:24 +0000

I like that he doesn’t use it when he’s not “on.” Such a classy dude. Insanely funny also; you don’t get to be friends with Stephen Fry if you’re not.

By: forge

forge — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:59:45 +0000

I think Jennifer Morrison is still prettier, although she’s gotten really thin and looks like crap as a blonde.

By: Em

Em — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:38:35 +0000

Agreed, although being Scottish, Mr Gibson is more cringeworthy to me.

By: Jake

Jake — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:23:33 +0000

And sounding like a bloody american isn’t an accent?
Oh right… I forgot… Americans don’t talk english… They speak american…

By: PeachyKat

PeachyKat — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 12:14:00 +0000

Okay, so he pimped himself out to a tired sequel for a few lines…I forgot about that…

By: kyasarin

kyasarin — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 10:10:06 +0000

Hugh does a brilliant American accent. If I hadn’t already known he was a Brit (Jeeves & Wooster, watch it already) (Fry/Laurie OTP), I wouldn’t have known.

You want bad American accents? Watch Doctor Who. Every “American” on the show, save for John Barrowman, does an absolutely abysmal job of the accent. And Barrowman was raised in Illinois, though he was born in Scotland and now lives in Wales, so he doesn’t really have to fake it.

By: mcquackor

mcquackor — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 08:32:09 +0000

YES! Please…

By: Blackfeather

Blackfeather — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 05:24:30 +0000

Oh GODDESS YES!!! Hugh just is genius all the way around!!!

By: Blackfeather

Blackfeather — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 05:22:26 +0000

Do you think there is a cure for Wilson?

By: lucas

lucas — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 04:44:42 +0000

Well, he’s cured 2, only one to go! watch out lupis, here hugh comes!

By: 11111

11111 — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 04:33:48 +0000

It’s the TV.

By: 11111

11111 — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 04:32:27 +0000

Nothing. The only thing that could be preposterous about it would be if he didn’t particularly enjoy using it.