FatPhil
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You're in a minority:
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/computer-science/articles/10.3389/fcomp.2024.1411414/pdfExternal Quote:
Frontiers in Computer Science: /The influence of accent and device usage on perceived credibility during interactions with voice-AI assistants/
Anne Pycha and Georgia Zellou
https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomp.2024.1411414
Of course, there's no such thing as a single "British" accent (I think we're *far* more varied than America in that regard), so let's drill down deeper:
-- https://www.countryliving.com/uk/news/a34435560/most-trustworthy-accent-uk/External Quote:
And the relevance, in case no-one's put tan and tan together to make mether:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_WestExternal Quote:
RTM
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JMartJr
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While agreeing that there is a wide array of accents in Britain, I suspect you are underestimating the array of accents in The Big M ('Murica.)
I, for example, am from the South, known for (among other things) grits, okra, wrasslin', NASCAR and "the" Southern accent. But the array of accents in the region is vast -- as there is not one British accent, there is not one Southern accent. It does not take a very discerning ear to recognize whether a person is from Charleston, SC, or New Orleans down in however Looeeziana is spelled (Louisiana, I guess, according to spell check). Well doggies and slap my butt with a possum, there are regional accents across this here state of North Carolina, from the folks in the hollers up in the Smokey Mountains (noted for "you'ns" as a plural of "you) to the folks in the swampier counties to the North East of the state (called the "Hoi Toiders" for their pronunciation of High Tide.
Even in the much smaller than London city of Charlotte,where I live, we have at least one surviving neighborhood accent, the "Mahs Pahk" drawl of the Myer's Park neighborhood, similar to the WIlliam F. Buckley or a more relaxed Katherine Hepburn with a veneer of honeysuckle and magnolia.
I am given to understand that Yankees have a similar thing going on, but who knows what all Yankees get up to?
Ann K
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A Cleveland accent is different from a Pittsburgh accent is different from a Cincinnati accent. Hungarians settled in Cleveland, Germans and Kentuckians in Cincinnati, and I have no idea about Pittsburgh, except that it must be where a lot of Canadians ended up. And then there's Massachusetts... ayup!
FatPhil
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I'm not thinking of just having a large variety of subtle differences, heck there's probably a dozen yorkshire accents, and nearly as many estuary ones; distinguishing St. Helens from Liverpool is easy, but everyone would admit they're extremely similar. I'm thinking of *wildly* different accents, so distant you could argue that they were in fact dialects. Do you ever subtitle American TV programs broadcast in America for American viewers? Brits have needed to subtitle British television in British English for British audiences because our accents can be so at least unidirectionally, sometimes mutually, unintelligible. I've experienced this first hand, I've failed to have a conversation in English once because neither party could understand the other. At all. (And given that I speak RP, that came as a surprise to my non-British travelling companions who consider my accent to be one of the clearest they've heard.)
JMartJr
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FWIW, I have in fact seen television programming in America where the Southerners, and where the African Americans, are subtitled...
I've had the same experience with the Hoi Toiders and with folks in rural Louisiana! Though nobody has ever called my accent on of the clearest they've heard -- while I at one time had a decent "Standard American" accent I could use for acting work, I've mostly lost it and sound, I am told, soemthing like Bill Clinton. I don't hear it, but I've been told by overseas friends in particular, more than once...
Something I have seen in my life is the blurring and fading of accents as more folks are exposed to TV /movies earleir and more constantly, and as people migrate around. Most of the Charlotte local accents are pretty much gone, the Mahs Pahk drawl hangs in among old-time neighborhood residents and those who move in and pic it up more-od-less by intent to sound more like proper rich folks... ^_^
Ann K
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A co-worker of mine was from Yorkshire, and he told me the tale of a man from India, a recent college graduate whose English was impeccable. His company sent him to Yorkshire, and he was crushed to find out that all his studies had not prepared him to communicate with the local people.
JMartJr
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I can't decide into which of the Calvine threads this important announcement should go, so will post it here, on neutral ground.
After reviewing the leading theories of the case (is it a thing on a string, is it a reflected object half-submerged in water, is it done using a sheet of glass?), and applying a great deal of intelligence and brain stuff like that, I have undertaken to assemble a Grand Unified Theory of the Calvine UFO Case. The answer to all of those questions is "yes," as I think this absolutely undebunkable photograph, possibly the most important photograph ever taken and destined to become a classic, amply demonstrates...
Clearly this is how it was done, and we can all relax now.
(Though it has been argued that the Truth is more Out There than I thought, and that the Calvine UFO picture exists in a quantum super-state of possible techniques, and only collapses down to one specific technique when Observed by a Debunker... but that, of course, can be rejected by the serious student of the UFOlogy on the grounds that it is just silly.)
I'm now off to take a quick victory lap, and then to try to get that sliding window unit back on its tracks before the house fills up with birds, bugs, butterflies and other wannabe UFOs...
After reviewing the leading theories of the case (is it a thing on a string, is it a reflected object half-submerged in water, is it done using a sheet of glass?), and applying a great deal of intelligence and brain stuff like that, I have undertaken to assemble a Grand Unified Theory of the Calvine UFO Case. The answer to all of those questions is "yes," as I think this absolutely undebunkable photograph, possibly the most important photograph ever taken and destined to become a classic, amply demonstrates...
Clearly this is how it was done, and we can all relax now.
(Though it has been argued that the Truth is more Out There than I thought, and that the Calvine UFO picture exists in a quantum super-state of possible techniques, and only collapses down to one specific technique when Observed by a Debunker... but that, of course, can be rejected by the serious student of the UFOlogy on the grounds that it is just silly.)
I'm now off to take a quick victory lap, and then to try to get that sliding window unit back on its tracks before the house fills up with birds, bugs, butterflies and other wannabe UFOs...
FatPhil
Senior Member.
This could be your route back into the movie industry - pretty faces don't last for ever, but practical craftsmanship is always useful. Expect a call from Steven Spielberg some time soon! Practice getting the perspective right so that the bike is way smaller than the moon, that's always one of the tests.
JMartJr
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I actually met Spielberg on the set of "The Color Purple," while I was working as an extra. It was the scene where Oprah is teaching the mayor's wife how to drive, and the extras were scattering in panic. It was a two0day shoot because the first day we lost time to a rain storm -- Oprah, Quincy Jones (who did the soundtrack and was visiting the set for some reason), a few other extras and Your Scribner wound up sheltering in an abandoned storefront on the small town street where we were shooting, and conversed about not much and it was all rather pleasant.
Later, I had a chance to visit the Amblin' offices in LA with a delegation of film industry recruiters from NC, and contrived to drop my resume in Mr. Spielberg's office, in the one-in-a-million chance he'd pick it up, think "I like this kid's moxie!" and give me a call. Though one in a million chances are said to pay off nine times out of ten, this was apparently the tenth time and I never heard from him.
Hopefully he's forgotten all about it so when he sees my amazing miniature set construction he won't have a bad taste in his mouth about "that rube who littered in my office." I hear he is contemplating another UFO movie...
https://www.imdb.com/news/ni65009411/External Quote:
Edited to include link and quote...
Mendel
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Article: Poppy producer Tasmanian Alkaloids said livestock which ate the poppies were known to "act weird" -- including deer and sheep in the state's highlands.
"There have been many stories about sheep that have eaten some of the poppies after harvesting and they all walk around in circles," said field operations manager Rick Rockliff.
John J.
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We must follow the evidence where
The UK Ministry of Defence denies it has applied techniques developed by Jake Barber to some aircraft.
eleggua
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deirdre
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I used to be able to identify any episode from the opening FX of whatever planet the Enterprise was orbiting, but then CBS Digital went and replaced the 1960s VFX with CGI versions...
They don't make Eminiar VII like they used to.
JMartJr
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I will admit to liking the "remastered" version. They did a decent job of making the effects cleaner with mostly keeping the original aesthetic. And they added some ships that were never on-screen originally due to lacking the budget to make new models and shoot new FX footage. Like the Medusan Ambassador's ship...
MonkeeSage
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DEWs not even once
John J.
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There's a thread Mars Rover captured something interesting, which has some photos taken by the Curiosity rover of some unusual looking rocks. They are interesting, but what some Reddit users thought more interesting was that they could see a Tic-Tac.
Not an exciting, rapidly-manoeuvring Tic-Tac evading David Fravor's F-18, but a very small bit of rock that looked like it had a Tic-Tac shape from some angles.
Along with other users, @deidre posted some useful photos from NASA which clarified that the "Tic-Tac" was, well, a small blob of sticky-out rock, one of many similar structures in that immediate area:
But have we debunked this too soon?
Not an exciting, rapidly-manoeuvring Tic-Tac evading David Fravor's F-18, but a very small bit of rock that looked like it had a Tic-Tac shape from some angles.
Along with other users, @deidre posted some useful photos from NASA which clarified that the "Tic-Tac" was, well, a small blob of sticky-out rock, one of many similar structures in that immediate area:
But have we debunked this too soon?
Calter
Senior Member.
I came across this while looking at Jake Barber's tweets and now I feel everyone else here has to see it too.
Source: https://x.com/TUPACABRA2/status/1888308092146000235
I'm sorry or you are welcome, depending on how you feel about it.
Source: https://x.com/TUPACABRA2/status/1888308092146000235
I'm sorry or you are welcome, depending on how you feel about it.
NoParty
Senior Member.
After their brief 2024 reunion, it looked like NSYNC was over. Glad to see they're still at it!
Apropos of nothing, I was at some talk years back where sci-fi author/physicist David Brin said he was part of a government advisory panel dreaming up threats and he said they came up with some meme that could lead to civil unrest/societal collapse if it were to be made public, so he wouldn't say what it was...
FatPhil
Senior Member.
Rule 34 says that this egg disclosure is far from over yet.
FatPhil
Senior Member.
Had he been watching Monty Python recently, specifically the first episode, and imagined that because he had liked the sketch, he was part of it?
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