In June.Does anyone know when the host city will be officially announced?
In June.Does anyone know when the host city will be officially announced?
Just 6 weeks? That's impressive!it took me about six weeks before I could somehow understand what the people were saying in Glasgow
Just 6 weeks? That's impressive!
A heavy Glaswegian accent is extremely difficult - unintelligible even - to most native British people from other areas, for their whole lives. Even without slang and swearwords.
People from Glasgow who appear on the news are likely to be subtitled...!
Not that a Glasgow accent is any worse than say, a heavy Geordie (Newcastle) accent, Yorkshire accent, etc etc...
I love the variety of British accents. I hope they never get smoothed out into BBC Standard. Now that Scotland (the Brave!) will be an independent nation, I feel more assured that its accents will remain gloriously unaffected by homogenization.
Glaswegians really do have their own language - I'd lived in Edinburgh for four years by that time and was pretty fluent in English, but it took me about six weeks before I could somehow understand what the people were saying in Glasgow
A heavy Glaswegian accent is extremely difficult - unintelligible even - to most native British people from other areas, for their whole lives. Even without slang and swearwords.
Not that everyone from Glasgow has such a strong accent... and nor is a Glasgow accent is any worse than say, a very heavy Geordie (Newcastle) accent, very heavy Yorkshire accent, etc etc...
People from Glasgow who appear on the news are likely to be subtitled...!
I love the variety of British accents. I hope they never get smoothed out into BBC Standard. Now that Scotland (the Brave!) will be an independent nation, I feel more assured that its accents will remain gloriously unaffected by homogenization.
I love all British accents, too, and also the accents from other parts of the Commonwealth. One of my favorite things about the Lord of the Rings DVDs was hearing the features and commentary by the various actors. In the film, they mostly spoke Theatrical Standard (not the proper term for it, but you know what I mean), but in the commentary, so many of them had other accents from various parts of Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland, and so forth. From other films, one of my favorite actors, James McAvoy, who played Tumnus in the first Narnia movie with a perfect British accent, is from Glasgow, and when he speaks in his "born accent," it's delightful on the ear. McAvoy and the LOTR actors also demonstrate how well-trained British actors can be. So many of them do splendid Queen's English when needed and often also do (as McAvoy has done in one or two movies) impeccable American accents. Michael Caine is another one with a great ear and many voices.
I hope they will choose Helsinki. It is easier to reach it than even Sochi for me and many Russians. Residents of Saint-Petersburg usually go there on holiday. I'm sure that rude Russian audience with vuvuzelas will be in considerable majority there.
Is it easier because of more availability of flights from Russia?
Is it easier because of more availability of flights from Russia?
I love all British accents, too, and also the accents from other parts of the Commonwealth. One of my favorite things about the Lord of the Rings DVDs was hearing the features and commentary by the various actors. In the film, they mostly spoke Theatrical Standard (not the proper term for it, but you know what I mean), but in the commentary, so many of them had other accents from various parts of Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland, and so forth. From other films, one of my favorite actors, James McAvoy, who played Tumnus in the first Narnia movie with a perfect British accent, is from Glasgow, and when he speaks in his "born accent," it's delightful on the ear. McAvoy and the LOTR actors also demonstrate how well-trained British actors can be. So many of them do splendid Queen's English when needed and often also do (as McAvoy has done in one or two movies) impeccable American accents. Michael Caine is another one with a great ear and many voices.
This is WAAAAYYYY off topic, but since you were talking about actors, I was wondering if you realised that British Eurosport's figure skating commentator Simon Reed is the younger brother of the late actor Oliver Reed.
I know we don't get to see Simon on screen, but if you saw him, you would know instantly that he was Oliver's brother:
Simon
Oliver
Just thought you would find this interesting.
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St Petersburg-Helsinki is only 3,5 hours by train with the new high-speed trains.