Re: This week on Dancing with the Stars Re: The Business Memoir - the ``whom'' question


Aidan Kehoe wrote:
Ar an seachtú lá is fiche de mí Deireadh Fómhair, scríobh Peter T. Daniels:

Ruud wrote (though Aidan snipped the attribution):

> > This was about an actor speaking with the express purpose of having
> > his acting filmed and his speech recorded. How can that be illegal?
>
> An actor attempting to imitate an accent is absolutely, utterly
> worthless as linguistic data.

Peter, READ THE FUCKING MESSAGE YOU'RE REPLYING TO. The actor in question is
not imitating an accent, as far as can be reasonably determined. He's from
Northern Ireland, and he's playing a Northern Irish character.

ARE YOU UTTERLY UNFUCKINGFAMILIAR WITH THE CRAFT OF ACTING? Actors DO
NOT use their own "natural" voices when playing a character --
especially one where they don't also have to learn a nonnative dialect.
How do you think they can do it exactly the same way (or vary the
performance exactly as the director requests) in every take of a movie
scene? or the same every night of a several-years' run of a play? or
the same in every episode of a TV series that might run for 12
(M*A*S*H) or more (Gunsmoke) years?

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