Yep, up here in eastern Canada I've heard people mistaking the English for Australians for years. You can probably tell the difference between Steve Irin's Croc Hunter and Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock, but for something eerie, try listening to Cumberbatch as Julian Assange in The 5th Estate -- it's an atypical Australian accent, but critics say he nailed it.Snowy wrote:You think that's bad? How about when people try and imitate us Brits? They either make us all out to be ridiculously posh... or chavvy. Also omg I was looking up some Brave memes and stuff and the amount of people who think that Brave is either IRISH OR WELSH... Irish, Welsh, Scottish and British are all completely different things, guys. x____x Interwebs...
Oh and the amount of times no one can tell the difference between Aussie and British baffles me. They sound nothing the same. o.O
To confuse things further, there's different Irish accents and Scots accents and Welsh accents and English accents, plus diaelects like Glaswegian and Cockney.
Examples -- Irish: Daniel Day-Lewis famously aced the Belfast accent for In the Name of the Father; Colin Farrell is a real Dubliner.
I've got a soft spot for the Scots, having been educated by them in my formative years, and it hurts to hear the horrible stereotyped accents in commercials and such -- but if you're into them, there's a great little documentary about their accents and dialects on the Brave video.
Welsh accent varieties you can hear from Richard Burton, Anthony Hopkins, Gwen Cooper (Eve Myles in Torchwood) and interviews with Rhys Ifans (Mycroft in Elementary, Dr. Connors in the Amazing Spider-Man).
In England, the Beatles made Liverpool Scouse famously imitable; poor Yorkshire used to get such a bad rap ("that unfortunate accent") until Sean Bean did Sharpe, and after that they even had him narrate war documentaries without dressing his English up. Robbie Coltrane, a Scot, does a passable West Country (Forest of Dean) accent as Hagrid.
Needless to say, when my young nephew asked why everyone in Harry Potter was Scottish, we soon set him straight.
The dark layout looks cool; I'm glad it wasn't colour blindness that was making my text hard to read.
The only reason I have this layout though is because I hate bright white backgrounds when I'm browsing forums, they hurt my eyes, so this was the only option. But yes, sorry, what I meant was that the font colour was different, not the actually font itself. ^^; The font is fine but since it's dark red on a grey background, well, that's hard to read. But it's not up to me! Post however you like. (:
very excited!
