Bad TV dialects

Hollie B hollieb98 at YAHOO.COM
Wed Oct 2 16:27:44 UTC 2002


I would have to agree with you there.  I'm from KY
myself and I don't know how many shows, etc. that make
me mad about how they portray Kentuckians with
dialects, personality, etc.

Annie Bush
--- Ed Keer <edkeer at YAHOO.COM> wrote:
> Ok, I have to vent. I watched a few minutes of
> _Hack_
> the other night. It's supposed to take place in
> Philadelphia, but like last year's _Philly_ everyone
> seems to sound like New Yorkers. Don't those
> Hollywood
> people know what a Philly dialect sounds like? It
> makes me miss _Homicide_ where at least the extras
> actually sounded like Baltimorians.
>
> Feel free to commiserate if your city/region fails
> to
> get proper treatemnt on TV!
>
> Ed
>
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