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- From: solovay@netcom.com (Andrew M. Solovay)
- Subject: Re: Patrick Stewart & "Space Age"
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.222058.20477@netcom.com>
- Organization: Smiley Abolition Front
- References: <1992Nov17.142003.102979@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 22:20:58 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.142003.102979@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> dh0a@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (DONALD L. HARDY) writes:
- >In a recent episode, Jean Luc was transformed into a 12/13 yearold by a
- >transporter malfunction. I found it fascinating that he spoke with an
- >absolutely FLAWLESS British public school accent. Where did this come from?
- >I thought he was a French fellow, raised in the wine country.
-
- Picard's body was changed, but his mind was not. Since Picard is
- French, he presumably learned English with an English accent
- (since England is closer than the US). Ideally, they would've
- found a kid who could do Stewart's "English-Shakespearean-Actor-
- Doing-a-French-Guy-Speaking-English-Flawlessly" accent, but that
- was too much to hope for, so they just settled for some JV Etonian.
-
- >Does this mean that in the future we have succeeded and finally eliminated
- >French as a language!?!?!?
-
- We can always hope...
- --
- Andrew Michael Solovay
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- "We know that Solovay is a misogynist and an idiot..."
- --Melinda Shore
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