English Smenglish

{Two rant posts back to back, yikes.}

There are things that I take pride in on a personal level and others that are purely external. Example: I take pride in my once sought after skills as a goalie. I also take pride when the Sox whip the Yankees even as a person who doesn't care much for baseball.

Accents. No matter where you are from you have one. Don't think so? Go somewhere else and see if those people talk funny. If they do then you my friend are afflicted with an accent.

I don't really think the Mass accent is all that difficult, certain letters are open for interpretation, some you just don't need and voila!, your done.

Then Hollywood comes along and certain people butcher it so we sound like a New Yorker with cotton balls in his mouth.

Case in point

It was bad enough some of the more dramatic lines in The Departed were funny just because of bad accents or no accents at all, letting DiCaprio do it a second time seems closer to a crime. BTW I'm not knocking the movie, (it might be really interesting) but come on! New career path, become a dialect coach. Hmmm, wait, that actually doesn't sound too bad at all! Time to go research.