I'm from Jamaica. Everyone thinks they're either really good at it, or they just don't give a fuck about being #957 in a cascade of crap and condescension.

I swear, to my half-assed ear, Quebecois French is much easier to understand. Parisian French (or French French, as I like to call it where Marc can hear) has more vowels I just can't pin down or replicate.

It pretty much boiled down to me starting to speak like my best friend. Was it a process of trying to assimilate (and pretty much always failing)? I don't know. I may just be lazy. But I'd love to have a distinct Received Pronounciation or Jamaican accent right now, and I can't. It would be...well, not quite…

>It's amazing how quickly and completely we can spot someone doesn't speak the same way we do

Simon Baker slips up more than anyone I can think of on network TV. And he does the station spots in his normal accent, which I think is interesting. His co-worker Owain Yeoman is more consistent.

In Quebec, they thought my French was cutely Parisian. After five or so years in Montreal, my Swiss-educated relatives thought I sounded like a goatherd.

A-Ha blew my mind. For a number of reasons, but their songs are flawlessly "neutral" but at least in the 80s none of their speaking accents were very good. I'm assuming that singing becomes less like language and more like noise?

I wish. I pick up the accent of anywhere I live, with it taking longer the older I get. As a teenager I could switch on command (my mother really hated my Cockney phase), but now I don't seem to have any conscious control. I've been in the US for a long time, so that's what it is, unless I get emotional at which point…

Is that anything like the district?

Problem is, anyone mentions centaurs and love, and it makes my google fingers start to get itchy about the cross-species logistics.

I'm in ur scienz, pinkin up ur experimunts.

I force (encourage) my family to buy me knives when they travel, because I don't get out much. They're all pretty good about it—I got Thailand and China and Russia and shit represented.

I guess I need to work out which tumblrs to follow in order to see the horse throwing thing ASAP, and also quality pics of Anthony Mackie, although my sister has told me to keep my grubby hands off his exceedingly fine self.

Yeah, I do mention the buying thing. I'd like to think enough slaves escaped to feed an apex predator species, but they didn't, and also that's incredibly depressing. Canada or bust!

I disagree, because I like fanfiction, and the premise is kind of close.

There might be an unnecessary restriction in hewing to one standard, but regardless, you're going to have people debating exactly which standard is the one.

I don't know if anyone expects a perfectly serious movie where horses are thrown at presidents who can catch them, but that's what we get.

What etfp said about Justified. Maybe that erased all his previous characters in my memory? No..I've always found his stare unsettling. Plus I'm not turning my back on his suspicious lack of pigmentation.

FUCK YOU SCIENCE FUCK YOU

>at a certain point critic's become cynics who can no longer enjoy the simple, popcorn fare that these films represent