At any rate,who knows what accents will sound like in the 24th century.
I have made the point before that my late father had a very strong Irish accent,my own is somewhat less strong or pronounced but myteenage daughters sound as if they are visiting from California(fuck you very much "Friends" et al).
And if there is a rare example of an Irish accent being done right ,it would be Cate Blanchette in "Veronica Guerin".
There are actually quite a lot of Dublin teens and twenty somethings who sound either like they're from California or Australia! The influence of US comedies and dramas and Aussie soaps has had some influence in middle-class parts of Dublin.
How was Julia Robert's Irish accent in Michael Collins?
It gets a bad rap but I didn't think it was all that bad. Funny you mention that movie, it's about the one time that Liam Neeson did a good accent, the Cork one. A Cork accent is very difficult to master and it's totally different from Neeson's own Ballymena accent (the two places are as far away from each other as it's possible to be on the island of Ireland). Despite the fact that most people in Ballymena sound a bit Scottish, Neeson did a crap Scottish accent in Rob Roy but he totally got the Cork accent down for Collins. Go figure.
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Christopher, I'm saddened that you fail to understand the concept of agreeing to disagree (and I agree with
Aspo Zabrudder that the discussion has gone on too long). You seem to be totally incapable of having an amicable discussion without accusing people of thinking bizarrely, irrationally, insanely or telling lies. It's somewhat odd that a talented writer can't find a more diplomatic way to express himself.
Then, when people turn round and respond to the way you post, you affect great hurt and surprise and wonder why they've personalised the discussion. I've noticed quite a few people respond to you in this way and I've always felt some understanding of where they're coming from but not particularly cared for the way they've expressed themselves. I've also had to metaphorically bite my own tongue on a few occasions. I don't care for the responses you've posted here, dealing with a totally trivial subject and a theory I've stated several times that I don't take too seriously.
You may want to examine the way you interactg with people on the board. It's not a case of everyone else being wrong and you right all the time. You can't just continually bombard people and insult them until they agree with you. People are entitled to have different views without you accusing them of being silly o irrational. You espouse diversity in Star Trek but seem to be incapable of accepting it on the BBS.
Can I point out finally, that I, unlike you, am coming from the perspective of someone who speaks a minority language that has nearly been wiped out by the dominance and preponderance of English. In Ireland, everyone speaks English but the consitutition of the country requires that laws are translated and published into Irish. Native Irish speakers in the North of Ireland, part of the UK, have brought cases in the courts to compel translation services, even though they all understand English. It's not a case of not understanding English, it's a case of trying to preserve a minority language and do one's own small part for one's own culture. So forgive me if I try to impose a little of that sort of cultural identity on one of my screen heroes, so I can empathise with him a little more.
