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- Subject: Re: Picard's accent
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- References: <1992Nov16.143307.1@emu.insted.unimelb.edu.au>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 01:58:09 PST
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- In article <1992Nov16.143307.1@emu.insted.unimelb.edu.au>
- s334147@emu.insted.unimelb.edu.au writes:
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- >Patrick Stewart is English.
- >Jean-Luc Picard is French speaking English.
- >He was obviously taught by an English person, therefore he speaks English (as
- >in the English that is spoken in England) with a French accent. I presume that
- >Americans hear it as English with an English AND a French accent.
- >
- >Because Stewart is English, his French accent only comes out when his French
- >background comes up - eg "Where no one has gone before" when he "sees" his
- >French Mother.
- >
- >Katharine "I never met a chocolate I didn't like" Shade.
- >disclaimer: my back hurts.
-
- I am studting french and I can tell you that I have never heard a french
- accent from Jean-Luc Picard. I think a better explanation of the whole thing is
- that in Earth of HIS generation, there are less national boundaries and and
- his father could have been of French ancestry but living in France for a
- hundred years or more!
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- Salut!
- Patrick
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