you're so not sneaky, scott pelley
my parents were watching '60 minutes' the other day. it was about the oil spill (cuz what isn't), but i was there so i watched 10 minutesish of it, and heard scott pelley interviewing a survivor from the rig.
me: 'interviewer guy's trying to cover up a southern accent.'
my mom: 'what?'
me: 'he is. he's southern. but he's trying to be all polished and news castery, but he's a hick.'
my mom: 'how do you know?'
me: 'listen to him. he's not sneaky. i can hear it when he's doing the voiceovers, but it's most obvious when he's with the guy. hearing the guy's accent is throwing him off and making it harder for him to hide it.'
my mom: 'o...k.'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N58oCgl9j2c&feature=related
me: 'i'm gonna go look up where he's from.'
my mom: 'ok.'
a couple minutes later.
me: 'ha! he's from san antonio. don't try to pull one over on henry higgins.'
me: 'interviewer guy's trying to cover up a southern accent.'
my mom: 'what?'
me: 'he is. he's southern. but he's trying to be all polished and news castery, but he's a hick.'
my mom: 'how do you know?'
me: 'listen to him. he's not sneaky. i can hear it when he's doing the voiceovers, but it's most obvious when he's with the guy. hearing the guy's accent is throwing him off and making it harder for him to hide it.'
my mom: 'o...k.'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N58oCgl9j2c&feature=related
me: 'i'm gonna go look up where he's from.'
my mom: 'ok.'
a couple minutes later.
me: 'ha! he's from san antonio. don't try to pull one over on henry higgins.'
posted by melilotnfosco | 6:50 PM
6 Comments:
Very astute. Now that you mention it, I can hear it too, but I would never have caught it if you hadn't pointed it out.
I heard once that tv journalists are sent to Iowa to learn how to speak without an accent...not sure how true that is, but it is something I remembered :-D.
you're not the only henry higgins around here. frank viola was in the fsn booth the other day and i said, "he sounds like he's from staten island". turns out it's long island. pretty close if i do say so myself.
They send people to Iowa because we know the proper way to say "bag," Honormommy. :)
:P
oh, frank viola's accent is a cross between fingernails on a chalkboard and making one laugh like a hyenna
i also once placed roma downey in northern ireland. and i noticed that my host parents in sweden have different accents (in swedish). i pointed it out to the wife of the former director of my school who had known them for 25 years and she said she had never caught that. but my host mother was from the coast, about an hour away, and has a more refined sound. my host father (and their children) had grown up inland, kind of in the country and sound slightly more nasal.
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