![]() ![]() Prior to the event, all of the Hope girls were found stringing pink streamers, placing pink flowers in vases, and, of course, primping themselves for this sophisticated event.Īs the guests walked in, soft music could be heard playing, as well as a few clinking glasses as tea was poured. Cheese scones, chocolate chip cookies, pink cupcakes, and cucumber and cream cheese finger sandwiches were included in her list of delights. The classy Mack S, Hope ’14 was in charge of organizing the many different delectable features served. The instructions were simply to “keep it classy” and BYOM (bring your own mug). come on, help me out.This past weekend, Hope House hosted their annual tea party, inviting all of the young women on campus for treats and tea. that’s the flipside equivalent of “The Man in the Iron Mask”Īnd. “No no, it’s not really funny but Zan is speaking Chinese with a Swedish accent and Jayna sounds like she’s from Mexico. So you ask your waitress to translate the funny part for you and she responds. The waitresses at the restaurant are all laughing hysterically and it’s killing you because you are obviously missing the best bits of the episode. The Wondertwins are standing in the Hall of Justice arguing over who is going to the go rescue the girl scouts from the abandoned coal mine but you can’t understand a word because Zan and Jayna are speaking Chinese. You’re watching the Super Friends at a Chinese restaurant (stick with me). roughly 99.7% of the global population thinks you talk funny (higher if you’re from Texas). ĭoesn’t matter who you or how standard and proper you think your speech is. If you’re from the States what personality is attached to a. Accent stereotypes are not just international Misplaced accents (accents that don’t line up with our stereotype) are confusing and funny.Ĥ. German – Colonel Klink, Schultz and Hitler.Australian – Crocodile Dundee and the Crocodile Hunter.Hispanic – Speedy Gonzalez, Cheech and JLo.For a Midwest American, wanna-be farm boy who grew up in the middle of a corn field and only knew two people in my first 18 years that might have been bi-lingual, these were my points of reference when my stereotypes were developed. Our understanding of what an accent means comes from our broadest, personal pool of reference points. A Russian accent means evil and generally carrying plutoniumĢ.An Australian accent mean tough and adventurous.A Hispanic accent means passionate and impulsive.A French accent means free spirited and romantic.A British accent means proper, brave and heroic.Accents (at least in the movies and in bad jokes) represent personality more so than nationality in FRANCE (and honestly that doesn’t bother me as much as it does that the accents they were using when they spoke THE WRONG LANGUAGE were not accurate). ![]() I’m all worked up because their accents were off (which makes the whole movie less believable for me) but THEY WERE ALL SPEAKING ENGLISH. This is the tip of the misplaced accent ice berg. Neither my wife, nor myself, nor anyone that I have talked to since (and they are numerous) has ever noticed this before. Poor Gerard was the only French guy in a story THAT IS SET IN FRANCE! when their being nice) and Porthos (Depardieu) was the lone Frenchy. Athos, King Louis and the man in the Iron Mask (Malkovich and DiCaprio x2) were obviously Yanks (that means Americans for those of you who are and don’t know that’s what the rest of the world calls us. ĭ’artagnan and Aramis (Irons and Byrne) spoke perfectly proper, Queen approved English. It’s a melodramatic love story with violence, betrayal, sword fights and bad acting made in the 90’s. The pure hearted twin of the King, victimized but too sweet to be bitter: Leo again as Phillipe in the iron mask.The selfish, bratface, overrated King bent on self above others: Leonardo DiCaprio as King Louis XIV.The nobility driven aid to the King bent on duty above personal desire: Gabriel Byrne as D’artagnan.The loose cannon loverboy bent on wine, women and a good fight: Gerard Depardieu as Porthos.The tainted holy man bent on redemption: Jeremy Irons as Aramis. ![]()
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