bollocks, say I
May. 11th, 2005 04:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
doylenos, you'll like this: Christopher Ecclestone in this month's SFX.
The accent that Shakespeare spoke when he originally wrote these plays was not RP. It's just become that way because that culture was snatched and turned into an elite area. I personally am against that... You see it in American sci-fi films. For some reason, white middle-class English is what aliens sound like. Bollocks! Bollocks, say I! Why do they always have to sound like classically trained... lavenders? When I was a little boy I watched Doctor Who I thought "well, if I'm gonna be brave and I'm gonna be a scientist, I'll have to sound posh." Now it means we can have what's patronisingly called a 'regional accent'... without getting soapboxy, I think that's great!
The accent that Shakespeare spoke when he originally wrote these plays was not RP. It's just become that way because that culture was snatched and turned into an elite area. I personally am against that... You see it in American sci-fi films. For some reason, white middle-class English is what aliens sound like. Bollocks! Bollocks, say I! Why do they always have to sound like classically trained... lavenders? When I was a little boy I watched Doctor Who I thought "well, if I'm gonna be brave and I'm gonna be a scientist, I'll have to sound posh." Now it means we can have what's patronisingly called a 'regional accent'... without getting soapboxy, I think that's great!