Indeed! The rise in power, influence and wealth of entertainers over the past 150 years or so amuses me to no end. The entertainers are becoming the new power structure. Have grown up in the theatre, this gives me a good chuckle.
If you can win over the world with your culture, all else will follow.
Funny about that, I would not have expected it. Certainly it used to be that way in France and Spain, but not so much in Scandinavia. Of course Soviet TV would just run whatever they had, in whatever language. Sometimes overdubbed, sometimes not. Bizarre. I worked on subtitles a bit in France, but dubbing was where the money could be made.
Music really does hold the key, there. It doesn't get dubbed or subtitled.
i was watching polish TV with my radiator as antennal and a fine b/w tv in the seventies
and german ddr/brd.
football all over the place
and german ddr/brd.
football all over the place
Hi i think they have a potential audience of some 100 million of German understanding spectators.
Of course English understanding spectators are much more.
It is difficult to say exactly but i guess 1 billion ? that would be ten times.
In the last year i have been watching a lot of tv series (i loved "Breaking Bad") in original language.
In Italy everything is dubbed in italian.
I watched one episode of Breaking Bad dubbed in italian. What a difference ... for the bad. Completely unnatural. Not real.
However i think that some actors should make an effort to be clearer when they talk.
They are quite difficult to understand and this causes stress in general.
And this could contribute to make the language more annoying. But it is not a language fault of course.
Not only. Actors with a really great diction IMHO would be a very powerful way to spread the language even more around the world.
Like Ambassadors of the language. This is a very important responsibility.
I can tell you one think.
The Anglosaxon people that i met who had a very good english were also the more brilliant and successful people.
It is very true that a really great diction makes one person success.
Even if it says silly things ... but in a clear way.
We live in a age when how we say things is more important of what we say.
We have a project manager here. With a very potent and fascinating voice.
He is responsible of what could be the biggest disaster project in the history of our company. Tremendous.
And still he is firm at the top of the organization. And respected instead of shot.
I guess it is for his authoritative voice that expresses confidence even in the disasters ...
To end i truly think that the world needs a global language.
Life would be so much easier and fascinating. So much more efficient.
But i would be also for uniforms in the office ... a little german i mean.
I like good standards.
Have a nice day.
gino
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The world or should I say the mankind doesn't need anything like that.
People need love and care and you can give only what you have already
received. Everything depends on the good ones for they are the only
that can change things for the better.
Hi i agree and i love english exactly for that.
Because it can increase my chance to get love and care from foreing persons 😱
even only sex would do ... in wait of love.
Regards, gino
evil Sy!
You're not the first person to say that. 😀 When I saw Star trek on German TV, I couldn't stop watching. I also have to confess that the first time I saw Wayne's World, it was a German dub. "Schwing!" readily translates.
The british people you've met with what you call very good english probably spoke in an accent called Received Pronunciation.
This is an artificial construct of the upper classes and is taught in what we in the UK call Public Schools. These are the cream of the fee-paying schools and cost up to £30 000 per term.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_school_(United_Kingdom)
(note the chapter on psychological harm these boarding schools do)
The reason these people are successful is not so much their ability to speak regional-accent free english but because their parents were rich and while at school and Uni made the right connections with other rich kids and their families. Their success is pretty much guaranteed from birth and largely independent from actual ability or talent. It is the 'old boy's network' at work and the reason why the UK will never be meritocratic.
A grave social injustice and a drag on the british society and economy.
Actors usually portrait a realistic situation as such their diction/accent has to reflect how people speak. Only 3% of the UK population speak in Received Pronunciation so it would be detrimental to the final product (TV or Movie) if everybody in every situation would speak like that.
Interestingly, my closest British friend speaks in Received Pronunciation (I always called it "the BBC accent"), but has a decidedly lower middle class background and lives a very middle class life these days. No trace of the Southampton accent that I can hear. So I think your brush is a bit too wide.
I will admit that Pinkmouse's English (heavily Yorkshire) is extremely difficult for me to understand when spoken- poor guy had to keep repeating himself the last time we were out for dinner and drinks. By contrast, my generalized East Coast American accent didn't bother him a bit.
I will admit that Pinkmouse's English (heavily Yorkshire) is extremely difficult for me to understand when spoken- poor guy had to keep repeating himself the last time we were out for dinner and drinks. By contrast, my generalized East Coast American accent didn't bother him a bit.
Not at all.
Many people train themselves or take elocution lessons to further their careers.
Some think a bit more long term and choose to live in poverty in order to send their kids to the right school.
Doesn't make them any better at their chosen subject but it opens doors which otherwise would be slammed in their faces.
Its not like we have abandoned the native language. Earlier subjects like geometry, history, sciences, algebra etc. were taught in regional language. Now more and more students are learning them in english besides 2 or 3 regional languages. So you can say English is slowly taking over.
Regards.
Not in his case, no. For that matter, not in my case, either- I never really picked up the strong regional accent from the area where I was born and raised, probably because of television. Perhap that was also the cause of his speech patterns, I never asked about that.
I do understand your point- I had a bright young fellow from Southampton working for me; we were dealing with a supplier who was also from there. I asked my engineer why his accent sounded so different than our supplier's. "You use a glottal stop instead of a consonant in the middle of words like 'didn't' and he doesn't. How come?" The engineer looked somewhat embarrassed, stared at the floor, and said, "Clahss."
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