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well someone up there clearly heard my screams of agony 
IāM BACK!
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Yay!! I feel like the order of the old forum is almost restored 
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Whoo! Just finished one of the major acting projects of my Second year. An intensive acting workshop of works from George Bernard Shaw. I played 3 characters from different excerpts of plays, we all had to use the RP dialect (British English) and a memorized script, which we streamed together through Zoom to friends, family and faculty.
We did it twice, with one run-through taking just about 6 hours. (I wasnāt on for the whole 6 hours, but we were all in the same Zoom room for that long!)
While I tripped up some of my lines on the second time today, I made it through! Ooh, I feel so amped up!!
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That would be very ironic if one of those plays was Pygmalion. Still, that sounds like a great project, and Iām glad that you made it through. Sounds very exciting, although I imagine requires so much work to be a good actor.
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I wasnāt one of the characters in it, but yes there were some scenes from Pygmalion.
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Thatās interesting. Just feel having all the actors be forced to use RP dialect for that play would be almost against the spirit of the play if you ask me. But saying that though I have no authority on that sortof thing.
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Yeah, it was more the decision of our teacher.
We also did a majority of St. Joan, which is set in France, in RP. We were originally going to use our normal voices, but ultimately decided that because we got the whole training on RP and all our other plays are using itā¦ why not?
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I guess I find that fascinating. I never considered youād have to be taught an accent, but ofcourse the more you think about it, the more it makes sense. I just think about how back on British TV back in the '70s and '80s you basically had to be able to speak using an RP accent to be able to act in anything before they started making mainstream programs which actually represented the accents of normal British people around the country.
You probably sound way better than me with my mongrol Bristol/Scottish accent, because I lived in Bristol until I was 5 and then moved back to Scotland, meaning Scots tell me I sound English, and non-Scots say I sound Scottish.
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So like Picard rules then?
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Yeah, Iāve received some compliments about how natural the British dialect comes to me, and Iām pretty sure I know the root of that.
Back in 7th-10th Grade, my English teacher was this guy who came from England. Naturally, he also came bundled with an RP accent and looved to flaunt it. So, through him sneaking in RP lessons to our English classes (and maybe a bit of mimicking/mocking him with friends ā he was not a very well-liked teacher since he was pretty strict) I picked up on it pretty well.
ā¦Thatās pretty interesting about British TV back then. Pretty discriminatory to a bunch of other areas in the UK. Yikes.
Oh, boy, are you in for a treat.
We get āSpeechā classes as part of our theatre curriculum, which is meant to teach us how to notice and write IPA phonetics, as well as prepare us to use localized English dialects for the bigger productions like this. Canadian (North American) and 1800s English ways of speaking are pretty differentā¦
This isā¦ a Star Trek reference(?) Thatās as far as my knowledge can take me on this, though. What do you mean by this? Patrick Stewart is quite the British legend.
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Thatās cool to hear. Iām glad that you seem to be learning so much and getting to enjoy it.
Bourbon is making a Trek reference. Patrick Stewart plays Jean Luc Picard, who is French, but uh, Stewart just uses his natural English accent the whole time. Itās like how Sean Connery speaks Russian with a Scottish accent in Red October. Also, you should watch Star Trek.
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Captain Jean Luc Picard of the USS Enterprise is supposedly from France but heās played by Patrick Stewart. No one questions this lol
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Ah, okay. Then I guess I do recognise that! 
I wasnāt sure, so I didnāt want to say.
Thatās a good point haha.
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& @Bourbon
He doesnāt have the accent but he does hang onto his French pride. One of my fav lines is when heās explaining colours in flags.
āWhat do bright colours have to do with it?ā
āColours represented countries back when they competed with each other. Red white and blue for the United States, or more correctly, blue white and red for France.ā
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Ok (no offense) but i highly doubt anybody in the northern mariana islands or norfolk island would have a gaming account
Ah yes, the unplaceable accent so you donāt fit in anywhere. Tis a curse I know well. Would you rather just have a well defined Scottish accent then?
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Just found out people found my videos by searching the word āshirtlessā into YouTube.
It was just me testing the Carpathian Mountains outfit on other levels (mod obviously)
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The Hitman fans sure know what they want ( Ķ”~ ĶŹ Ķ”Ā°)
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