Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Spike and Drusilla

I have started watching the second season of Buffy, and I came across those 
two characters named in the object, who are supposed to be British vampires. 
Their accent is a bit strange, but not improbable, taking into account that 
they're not human beings!  So I thought the actors were just playing their 
roles, but the other day I wanted to check whether they were really from 
England. Well, they are not! Both James Marsters 
(
http://imdb.com/name/nm0551346/
) and Juliet Landau 
(
http://imdb.com/name/nm0484460/
) are American, even though the latter spent 
some time in London as a youngster.
I know some of you have watched this tv series, so I was wondering... do 
Spike and Drusilla really sound British or are they accents just bad 
attempts of imitation?
Tschüss,
Enrico il Pentolaio.
--
"Come e' morto Capitan Uncino? Facendosi il bidet con la mano sbagliata."
My still-in-construction website: 
www.pentolaio.tk
 

 attempts of imitation?
I am Italian, so my opinion on this is irrelevant, but British posters in 
alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer mostly agree that Landau's accent is very bad, 
Boreanaz's Irish accent is very very bad and Marster's was acceptable in 
season 2 but then improved a lot in later seasons (Anthony Head, who is 
British, taught him a lot).
Rincewind.
-- 
Lines you'll never hear on Buffy:
DRUSILLA: I'm not really crazy, I've just been faking it to get away with 
this accent. 

 this accent.
ROTFL!
Thanks for your reply.
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 but I always thought he had some sort of American accent.
Right, you're only at the beginning of the season so you haven't heard his 
Irish accent yet.
In the second half of the season there are going to be a few flashbacks to 
when he was younger and you will have the opportunity to enjoy it...
Rincewind.
-- 
Lines you'll never hear on Buffy:
DRUSILLA: The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain. The rain in Spain...

 Spain...
I didn't get this one. What does "on the plain" mean?
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 I didn't get this one. What does "on the plain" mean?
La rana in Spagna gracida in campagna :)
Kiuhnm

 La rana in Spagna gracida in campagna :)
E che?!?
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 E che?!?
Da quel che ho capito è un gioco di vocali per alcuni accenti regionali.
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=35459
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http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=35459
Non hai mai visto My Fair Lady?!
Kiuhnm

 I didn't get this one. What does "on the plain" mean?
"In Spagna la pioggia cade soprattutto in pianura" che non significa 
assolutamente niente ma e' semplicemente un esercizio di pronuncia teso ad 
eliminare la scorretta pronuncia del dittongo "ai" tipica di alcuni accenti 
poco colti.
La frase e' stata resa famosa dal musical My Fair Lady in cui Audrey Hepburn 
interpretava appunto una ragazza di umili origini che veniva trasformata in 
una raffinata lady da Rex Harrison. L'accento di Drusilla e' una versione 
particolarmente esagerata di quell'accento, e da cio' discende l'umorismo 
della cosa.
Rincewind.
-- 
Lines you'll never hear on Buffy:
GILES: I'm fed up of repeatedly cleaning my glasses. I'm getting contacts.

 Non hai mai visto My Fair Lady?!
No, mi dispiace.
:-/
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 GILES: I'm fed up of repeatedly cleaning my glasses. I'm getting contacts.
LOL!
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