Anglosaská filmová tvorba

7 May: O Brother, Where Art Thou

Accent in the film:

Southern drawl

Vowels

•prolonged vowels: /e:/ friends   
•vowel breaking: /ɔː/ → /ɑːɔ, ə/ law   

                                 /e/ → /eɪ/  treasure   

                                 /ɪ/ → /ɪ:ə/ outfit      

•/ aʊ / → /æʊ/ 
•/ɪ/ x /e/ before nasals => / ɪ / (pin X pen) sense  

Consonants

•L-dropping: help yourself  
•almost non-existent /f/ in “of”  

•mostly non-rhotic / “r-less” accent


Everett's use of language:

•a blind person

  “an organism deprived of its earthly vision”

•silly of me to ask

  “It’d be the acme of foolishness to inquire if …”

•I know you’re bearing me a grudge …

  “… the personal rancor reflected in that remark”

•complaining about women

  “Woman is the most fiendish instrument of torture ever devised to bedevil the days of men!”

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