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[muji]

NOMINATIONS WILL STAY OPEN UNTIL TOMORROW MIDDAY EST.

Anyone else had reality screw with the fiction in their head lately?

Example:

My boyfriend is in love with the Dresden Files, and recently Netflix-ed (yes it's a verb) the tv series, and lent them to me as well. While watching 'Inside the Dresden Files' I realize that Paul Blackthorne (Harry Dresden) has got this adorable British accent, while Terrence Mann (Bob, here portrayed as human-form and v. v. British sounding) is from Kentucky.

My mom goes, "Oh yeah, there's a lot of Manns in Kentucky," which, when you're listening to that sentence and not reading it, makes you twitch amusingly.

And then I got chastised for not assuming a last name like Blackthorne was British. *chuckles*

Anyone else?

Also while I am thinking about it: I want to know who has the biggest plothole in their canon! And here I am talking sustained plotholes, not ones that get resolved in later canon *eyes Bootstrap Bill*.

Here's my nomination: If Ned brings dead things back to life, even the fruit he bakes into his pies, how does he eat?

All nominations will be organized into a later poll and posted in the back room to vote upon. :D!!! Please put NOMINATION in the subject line so I can find it. Maybe I'll even make a prize!

ETA: Since it is rapidly occuring to me that there are some canons with more holes than plots, pick your favorite, and/or the one most likely to go "A SMALL CHILD IN AN EYEPATCH WOULD HAVE SEEN THAT ONE AND TO FIX IT WOULD HAVE COST YOU NOTHING, YOU DORKS."

Does this help at all? *shrug* I dunno. Pick your favorite!

Comments

[silveraspen]

... I hate you.

*has just spent last fifteen minutes trying to classify own accent, which is harder than you might think*

[muji]

I gave up on mine long ago.

[silveraspen]

You are wise.

My difficulty is exacerbated by the fact that my accent differs from that of the rest of my family. My dad is from the West, so doesn't have a Southern accent; my sister was born in west TN and has a MUCH stronger/more pronounced rural/TN accent than I do; my mother's accent is more Nashvillian and probably closest to mine but is also more pronounced; mine is generally I think "softer" than that of most of the town where I grew up, but none of us can figure why, save for the possibility that I was born in a western state and lived there for the first 2 years of my life, which may have had a formative effect?

Add in that my accent shifts depending on who I'm around and for how long, and I give up.

[muji]

I'm with ya -- TN mom CT/MD dad, and the one point in my life where I specifically tried to not have a Bawlmer accent. >_O

[silveraspen]

Ahaha yes. *passes tea*

Vaguely amusing anecdote: I once worked for a company that had a lot of phone communication with a London office in the AM and a Sydney office in the PM. My accent would change depending on time of day and who I talked to.

Someone from Sydney office went to London office, and for reasons I don't know my name came up in conversation between them and the local office people. Sydney: how long has Aspen worked for your London office? London: WTF? She's from YOUR office? Local: Er, she's from here, and didn't grow up here.

They put the phone on speaker and local called me in, unsuspecting, to ask where I was originally from. Answer was given in "normal" Southern accent.

Explosion of disbelief from all sides.

[muji]

I need to get you and Alec in a room and watch Noam Chomsky's brains implode.

[silveraspen]

I'm in favor of this plan. :)

[muji]

Not even considering the languages he speaks (English, French, Italian, German and Spanish), he went to an international school run by Brits, so he learned British grammar and spelling for however many years, and then he comes to rural Maryland to go to college.

*whiplash*

[silveraspen]

...

*just cracks up laughing*

For the win.

[muji]

I really need to film his jugular vein cha-cha when he hears someone on the Eastern Shore call someone a 'chickneckr'.

[bcgphoenix]

*snorks*

I think my favorite accent classification anecdote is from elementary school. My fourth-grade student teacher told us how when he visited the south, he kept getting teased for being a Yank, and when he went north of the Mason-Dixon line a few weeks later, people were asking him, "Oh, what part of the south are you from?"

WE CAN'T WIN.

(And I've got a really faint Midwestern accent on top of it that goes "HAY GUYZ" and jumps to the forefront whenever I spend more than five minutes around my mom's family. When I took a second to pause and actually listen to myself last week, I kept going, "What.")

[muji]

Maryland never counts for anything. D:D:D: Fucking border state.

[agonistes]

*smug*

[silveraspen]

Fine. *eyes you* You've heard me talk, you classify it!

[agonistes]

South Midland, though in a slightly different way than mine (because mine's influenced both by proximity to the mountains and by my father, who's got a bad case of what that page calls Cracker). I put more emphasis on hard consonants than you do, as I recall, and you're more generous with vowels than I am. I think. Which tends to fly with what you described above, too.

[silveraspen]

Makes sense, and even seems to match regionality in terms of location and familial descent. *classifies self!* Hallelujah.

Now if I could only solve the rest of the things I have to do today so easily....

[agonistes]

All things can be solved by judicious application of slashed tires and boots to the face.

:D?

*flees for work*

[adiva_calandia]

Boot to the head!

[vivien]

Do I have an accent? Some of the Oklahoma creeps in sometimes. I'm really curious.

[agonistes]

You have a sometimes-accent! I can recall a few occasions on which your vowels got slightly longer than usual. :D