Gwyn's accent.....
I mean seriously, it's god-awful. My ears are having a serious problem tuning into what she's saying, it's some really poor voice acting and I'm surprised whoever this actress is managed to get that role.
It's like American-Australian and some bad Yorkshire impression all at once.
Is there a shortage of English actors over there?
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HOW DARE YOU TALK ABOUT LAURA BAILEY LIKE THAT, SHAME ON YOU
Fiona is surprised.
I'm guessing the both of you are American?
I am, I dunno about Poogs though. I don't see what that has anything to do with this though, lol.
Yeah, but that really doesn't have anything to do with it
Erm, it kinda does in that you can't seem to tell how bad it is. You both being American, that makes sense.
I don't see what's annoying about her voice whatsoever. I've never seen anybody think it's bad. It sounds completely fine.
Her "English" accent is anything but English would be the main problem there.
That actually makes no sense at all.
Being American = Not being able to tell if an accent is bad
It's an accent. Who cares? Contrary to popular belief, Westerosi does not equal English.
Thank you! I was about to say that!
Then I'm amazed at how something so simple Is lost on you. You're telling me a person who lives thousands of miles away could tell the difference in dialects in the region of a country......for example would you be able to tell the difference between a Liverpool and Manchester accent?
It's a really bad impersonation.
Who cares? I'm sure you'd care if everyone started speaking in a Texan accent lol.
Ha, and I love how you went and got so defensive about it. My point was that you can't seem to tell what an authentic accent sounds like. My guess was that you weren't from anywhere near the country, and surprise, I was right.
God knows I've had to listen to enough bad mid-Atlantic accents that were supposed to be "American."
Yeah. I love Laura Bailey, but...her impression of the accent is not very refined, that's for sure.
I don't see a problem really for two reasons.
It sounds like she's confusing Northern English with Australian :P
@kh4l33si
^ What he said
You don't have to be from a specific part of the world to identify accents, though?
For example, theater students on the regular are studying varying accents from the same part of the world. When my school put on a performance of Oliver Twist they'd had to actually study the difference between Yorkshire accents and Cockney accents (I think, anyways? I wasn't part of the specific production? But I know Cockney was one of them.) Or even! Many American's travel or live in different countries on the regular, giving them an idea of the accents in that particular area.
Some accents are incredibly specific to small towns of countries, but with modern theater/television/ect it's not really this huge thing that's worth petty attacks?
Unless there's a major in it (which there is) you shouldn't belittle people regardless if they're right or wrong.
Literally 0 idea why you tagged me in this comment.
aaaand you're getting off point. No you don't have to be from a place to identify accents.
What would be the reason for not being able to identify one though? First guess "Not being from there".
Also, what petty attacks? What belittling?
I didn't notice anything off, but then again I am terrible with accents.
To myself it sounded a little uppity for you to claim that American's can't distinguish between accents.
Of course I understood your point because being from the area makes it easier, but sometimes it doesn't help your case in trying to argue you know better by bringing up where someone's from/live makes their opinion/knowledge unusable to try and prove your opinion better.
I seriously can't get over how everyone assumes that people in Westeros automatically are supposed to have top notch authentic english accents. It's not England. It's Westeros.
No, but you never said anything about regional accents.
You said something about American-Australian, and even I hear the difference between English, Scottish, Irish, American and Australian.
And I live 6.000 km away from America, 15.000 km from Australia and about 1200 km from Great Britain. English isn't my first language and I could still tell the difference between those accents.
"Uppity" but true in this case.
No it doesn't sometimes, but this is exactly the time it does.
Next time I'll say "non-English" for the PC Police
You think an Australian accent fits in with her family?
It´s Laura Bailey, I´d forgive her even if she went mute and got a VA role anyway.
They're not. But it's a medieval type show which traditionally consists of English accents. GoT has Scottish, Irish and others too. In this case the actress was going for an English accent and did a poor job.
Why not? Sansa's accent sounds distinctly different from Robb's or Jon's.
Why not what?
Sansa was raised to speak like a lady, ie. "posh".
Good example being in the show when Tywin tells Arya the difference between "My lord" and "m'lawd"
And Robb and Jon were raised to speak like gutter trash?
Robb was raised to speak like a lord. Sansa was raised to speak like a lady. They were raised in the same location by the same parents. They should have the same accent, but they don't. Yet no one seems bothered by it.
They're Northeners, which seems to be the Northern England accent like Sean Beans. Again, Sansa was raised to speak like a lady, ie. "posh" so for some reason they wanted her to speak different. Fits with her character too because she seems like she doesn't belong there.
Sounds great to me. I've met plenty of people that talk with an accent like that.
Or Sansa simply has a different accent from Robb. You're reaching.
Oh now I see why you said "Why not?"
Er, nooo I'm not reaching you just want to be right no matter what here.
Yes, they do have different accents, but they're from the same country :P
Why not have an Australian accent you ask? It's a different country, that's why.
But you pinpointed America. Anybody in the world could not be able to tell the difference if it's like you say.
Yep. This is an American website, so my first guess was these guys were American.