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[Lorraine A Adcox]

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Lorraine A. Adcox, MS, CCC-SLP
Speech-Language Pathologist
Clinical Instructor
ladcox at sc.edu
ladcox at the-greenspan.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU]On Behalf
> Of Aaron Drews
> Sent: Friday, November 19, 1999 11:14 AM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Re: An ADS evaluation of dialects in movies?
>
>
> On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, James Smith wrote:
>
> }--- Aaron Drews <aaron at LING.ED.AC.UK> wrote:
> }
> }> And Kevin Costner.... nil
> }>
> }> --Aaron
> }
> }Aaron,
> }
> }Just what kind of an accent would the "real" Robin
> }Hood have had?  Certainly not that of Errol Flynn or
> }Cary "I have an English accent" Elwes!  I suspect
> }Kevin sounded as close to authentic as any other
> }actor!
> }
> }JIM
>
> I would expect the real Earl of Sherwood would have had some sort of
> Mercian dialect of early Middle English.  So, yes, Costner would have
> sounded as authentic as anybody else nowadays.  I have to admit, I'd love
> to see a production of Robin Hood in any dialect of Middle English.  And,
> of course, the _real_ story of Robin Hood, too.
>
> But, don't blame me for Hollywood's thinking that anything that takes
> place in England (Robin Hood, King Arthur, Shakespeare) must be spoken in
> a mainstream (ie, RP, Estuary, Cockney, etc) accent rather than early
> Middle English, ancient Welsh or early Modern English.  It's by that
> definition I was judging Costner (et al).
>
> --Aaron
>
>
>
> ========================================================================
> Aaron E. Drews                               The University of Edinburgh
> aaron at ling.ed.ac.uk                  Departments of English Language and
> http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~aaron       Theoretical & Applied  Linguistics
>
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>         --Death
>