https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 31 May 2026 01:59:19 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/southern-accents-in-moviestv#post-885587 Wed, 26 Jun 2013 10:26:38 +0000 Happygal 885587@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Plantains: I read a linguistics expert dissect why Anna's accent is so wrong. Discussion of dipthongs and monothongs and glides....basically, it's all wrong! If you click on that link I posted earlier, you can see people doing some awful accents (not just southern ones). It seems lazy to me.</p> <p>@PrettyLizzy: I feel like Canadians accents including lots of "ehs." Are the subtitles really needed, or are they trying to be funny? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/southern-accents-in-moviestv#post-885570 Wed, 26 Jun 2013 10:21:08 +0000 plantains 885570@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MsLipGloss: good to know. The whole time I am yelling at teh TV because she sounds like such an idiot.</p> <p>By the same token bad Britsh accents on TV reeeeaaaaaly annoy me. Either hire someone British or don't bother. Lots of fake 'Cheerio Guv'nors' do my head in. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/southern-accents-in-moviestv#post-885560 Wed, 26 Jun 2013 10:17:27 +0000 MsLipGloss 885560@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@plantains: It sounds wrong because it is wrong! ;)</p> <p>I also really hate when Southerners on t.v. amp up their accents and exaggerate them . . . I'm lookin' at you Reba McEntire! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/southern-accents-in-moviestv#post-885555 Wed, 26 Jun 2013 10:16:31 +0000 prettylizy 885555@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This makes me LOL! I feel the same way about Canadian 'accents'. We don't all talk like we're from backwoods Newfoundland!</p> <p>I also love on reality TV (*cough*teen mom*cough*) when they have to subtitle the really thick accents (I'm looking at you Corey!) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/southern-accents-in-moviestv#post-885548 Wed, 26 Jun 2013 10:11:44 +0000 plantains 885548@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Anna Paquin on True Blood really bugs me. I'm not entirely familiar with authentic southern accents but hers just sounds wrong. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/southern-accents-in-moviestv#post-885542 Wed, 26 Jun 2013 10:09:00 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 885542@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Happygal: yes, it was Con Air! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/southern-accents-in-moviestv#post-885535 Wed, 26 Jun 2013 10:07:19 +0000 Happygal 885535@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've wondered if people who haven't spent time in the south recognize how bad some of the southern accents can be.</p> <p>@Leialou: oh, Nicholas Cage. I think there's probably a long list of things we can say he has done poorly. Maybe it was Con Air? Here's a pretty funny compilation with movie clips of some bad accents: <a href="http://www.womansday.com/life/12-worst-movie-accents-of-all-time-108239" rel="nofollow">http://www.womansday.com/life/12-worst-movie-accents-of-all-time-108239</a><br /> Both Jessica S. and Renee Z. are from Texas, right? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/southern-accents-in-moviestv#post-885515 Wed, 26 Jun 2013 09:58:32 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 885515@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes! It bugs me so much. Nicholas Cage did a really bad one. I forgot the name of the movie though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/southern-accents-in-moviestv#post-885484 Wed, 26 Jun 2013 09:50:07 +0000 MsMamaBear 885484@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes! I hate it. I guess I have an accent, but it doesn't sound that hard.LOL </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/southern-accents-in-moviestv#post-885478 Wed, 26 Jun 2013 09:48:51 +0000 Koolbreeze 885478@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Haha whenever I hear someone on tv that's suppose to be from the south (or on realty tv...especially from around NC) I'm like "OMG do we really sound like that?!?!?!" I normally get a good laugh from it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/southern-accents-in-moviestv#post-885477 Wed, 26 Jun 2013 09:47:33 +0000 MrsTiz 885477@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I haaateee this! DH doesn't get it but it irks me so bad. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/southern-accents-in-moviestv#post-885459 Wed, 26 Jun 2013 09:42:20 +0000 Happygal 885459@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Does it bother you when there are bad southern accents? (And I've found that they're almost ALWAYS bad!) It seems actors either want to do an exaggerated Alabama-drawl or over-the-top Appalachian twang. </p> <p>I roll my eyes and want to throw stuff at the screen. It kills me. The worst is when an actor from the south still butchers the accent! </p>