accents

[Jennifer Lee Davies <jen@nt.net>]

Phil wrote:
>I realise this is totally naive, and I'm obviously generalising, big 
>style, but I'd like to know what accent RD was using.....

        The point of the accent coach in Roger's case would be to get rid of
his thick cockney!  Your average American, at whom "Sliders" is aimed, would
have a difficult time understanding what Roger was saying on an ordinary day.
        He still sounded kind of English through the snarl, because his tone
was very clean.  (That's the only way I can describe it, as I call most
American and Canadian accents "muddied".  After all, the English were the
first to use English!)


Brian C wrote:
>Which reminds me.  If Roger grew up in Shepherd's Bush just as Pete and
>John did, why does he have a strong accent and they don't?

        Maybe the other two tried purposely to get rid of their accents.  It
*can* be done.  (My Welsh, working-class grandfather pulled it off... but it
slips when he's drunk.  ;) )  Pete DID go to art school....  Maybe they
tried to root it out of him there?  And maybe John's music teacher, who he
might have tried to emulate, spoke with a higher-class accent?
        Wait a minute.  Now that I think about it, Keith Moon was from
Wembley!  (That's a different area of London.)  And Pete and John weren't
from Shepherd's Bush.  That's in....  Oh, goodness, I don't know which, but
it's in a book.  They're from different parts of London.

JenniferD
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