You're in a minority:I mean... I guess he has an honest face... but the accent sounds shady.External Quote:
Should We Believe Him?
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/computer-science/articles/10.3389/fcomp.2024.1411414/pdfExternal Quote:The current study investigated how voice accent and frequency-of-use affected
users' credibility assessments of search results delivered by voice-AI assistants.
Participants, who were native speakers of American English and self-classified
themselves according to how frequently they used voice-AI assistants, listened
to statements produced by neural text-to-speech in either an American English
or British English accent. They then rated the credibility of both the information
content and the voice itself, along several dimensions. Results showed that in
multiple conditions, participants perceived information delivered by British-
accented voices as more credible than that delivered by American English-
accented voices.
-- https://www.countryliving.com/uk/news/a34435560/most-trustworthy-accent-uk/External Quote:This is the most trustworthy accent in the UK, according to a new study
By Lisa JoynerPublished: 22 October 2020
Yorkshire has been crowned as the most trustworthy accent in the UK, with a new study finding it to be 'intelligent' and 'calming'.
The research, which was commissioned by OnBuy.com, asked 2,221 people to listen to 15 British accents and say which they would be more likely to trust in job interviews.
While Yorkshire accents were voted as one of the most pleasing to the ear, in second place with 57% is Received Pronunciation — a dialect most commonly found in Hertfordshire, London, and Kent.
Scottish and Welsh accents took the third and fourth spots, respectively. Participants said they would be more likely to hire someone with the Scottish accent, with many describing it as 'soothing' and 'friendly'.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_WestExternal Quote:West grew up in the small town of Bingley, West Yorkshire ...
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.)Of course, there's no such thing as a single "British" accent (I think we're *far* more varied than America in that regard),
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!am given to understand that Yankees have a similar thing going on, but who knows what all Yankees get up to?
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.)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?
FWIW, I have in fact seen television programming in America where the Southerners, and where the African Americans, are subtitled...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 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...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.)
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.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.)
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.
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.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.
https://www.imdb.com/news/ni65009411/External Quote:
In April 2024, it was announced that Steven Spielberg is making a new UFO movie based on an idea of his. David Koepp, who worked with Spielberg on movies like Jurassic Park, will write the script.
The movie will star Emily Blunt, Colin Firth, Eve Hewson, and Colman Domingo, and it will be released in theaters by Universal Pictures on May 15, 2026. Not much is known about the film yet, but Koepp recently teased what fans can expect.
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.
I have undertaken to assemble a Grand Unified Theory of the Calvine UFO Case.
Imagine if a Tasmanian Devil got hopped up on opium.
Keeper of "the cards".I see that Andrew Tate has finally returned to the US.
No one seems to know to what lofty position DJT will appoint Tate.
Some concern that--given the other appointments--Tate is overqualified...
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...
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...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.
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.
Rule 34 says that this egg disclosure is far from over yet.Now the list of things I have seen contains everything.
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?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...