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oyetpel:
What brought up this discussion was red sparrow.

An American girl portraying a Russian girl, by speaking Russian language and you are telling me you will know if she's speaking it right?

No matter how a linguist learn an accent say, Scouse. You can never speak the English like a scouse never.

oyetpel:
Nobody is saying you won't know the language but i am talking about specific accents and dialect. Like Koice said If one doesn't know Rooney or Gerrard, you will know they are speaking English, but would you know the accent is scouse?

wisino1:
See person when stay 37 years for prison still fresh like moi moi....me when dey outside for Nigeria all this years I be like roasted corn ......en no go better for our leaders especially bubu

KoiceReloaded:
Studied Language and Linguistics for a while at the Uni. I dropped it eventually because it's a lot of work, it's one of the hardest courses you'll ever do.

oyetpel:
This is ridiculous, why countered me in the first place?

oyetpel:
Some of these accents are also hard to understand if someone that doesn't have a deep knowledge of them or if one didn't grow up in the UK.?

So why did you all countered me in the first place?

Ishilove:
I love her accents because it is so crispy and sophisticated

Ishilove:
Mscheeeew. I prefer hard copies. There's something about the smell, the feel and texture, the sound of book pages as you devour it's contents. It almost ethereal

Ishilove:
What accent does the Queen have?

Ishilove:
Can I have one?

KoiceReloaded:
I can tell a Russki accent from a Ukrainian accent, same way I can tell a Cockney accent from a Scouse accent, a Glaswegian accent from an Edinburgh accent, a Cork accent accent from a Derry accent, a Yoruba accent from an Itsekiri accent: Rhotic consonants. Some accents use hard "r", and some use very soft "r", whilst some don't use "r" at all.

KoiceReloaded:
In England itself, there's a lot of dialects. We are more exposed to the RP (received pronunciation) due to it's frequent use in portraying the stereotypical English accent in American media. But there are other English accents like Scouse, Lancashire, York and Cockney. All these aforementioned sound very different to RP accent, and an untrained ear could very easily mistaken them for a scottish accent or non-english accents at first time of hearing them.

Ishilove:
That na why to come this thread these days dey hard me

But to be fair, he did warn us...

oyetpel:
Do you know how to speak Russia, for you to say she try?

Mind you she didn't converse with other casts in Russian, just little words of hers was in Russian.

Only a Russian can adjudge her Russian accent in the movie not you.

oyetpel:
lol, what about high rate of cheating wives? One can just make a portable one.

KoiceReloaded:
Way much more interesting. A typical Agatha Christie work. You won't be able to figure it out until the end, and the reveal will wow you because it was starring you right in the face all along, and you missed it somehow.

KoiceReloaded:
**SPOILER ALERT***


Beorn, so I have finally seen Mindhunters, and here are my thoughts:

10 minutes into the movie I realized I'm familiar with the concept. It's a ripoff of Agatha Christie's Novel "And then there were none". Basically, a group of people met in an isolated island and one after the other met a mysterious end in the hands of an unknown assailant. The killer's MO is inspired by a poem - he killed his victims based on the contents of the poem. When the group concluded that the killer must be one of them after the first murder, he faked his death to effectively eliminate himself from suspicion, and then proceeded to kill the others on the sly.

Now, the plot of Mindhunters put a little spin on this by changing things here and there, but ultimately ruined it by making the mysterious assailant a villain. There wasn't any twist to justify the gruesome murders in the end. While it maintained a good deal of the thriller part, the movie became predominantly action oriented, and just way too cliche and over the top to me. Basically, it lost it's purpose, sense of realism and most importantly, it's intelligence.

In the novel and TV adaptation, the final twist revealed that the mysterious assailant is the protagonist all along. Everyone in that island with the exception of the killer were all guilty of grievous crimes in the past, and got away with it... or so they thought. The killer cunningly lured them to the island to mete out his own brand of justice on them. In the end, nobody walked away from the island unscathed as the killer (the sole survivor) is revealed to be suffering from a terminal cancer.


Bottom line, Mindhunters could have been great if it followed the source as close as possible, but in an attempt to carve out it's own identity, it ended up murking up what would have been a commendable psychological mystery thriller.

5/10.

Dotng:

jmanity:
link to download rampage, pls?

Funjosh:
Don't be surprised if he must have watched all the old movies you might be suggesting unless you will be recommending some 18th century movies to him


I just finished watching Rampage cool movie I must say.

DannyKoice:
Anti-Spambot

KoiceReloaded:
I haven't but I will, I've seen a tv show of the same name but in singular noun, though.

KoiceReloaded:
Gbam. We're finally on the same page. Feels good, doesn't it?

Emekus92:
Thanks
Old movie

Will do

KoiceReloaded:
Forget about what you see there jare. I've played FIFA for a long time, I know my tactics and formations. I know how to change a game completely by switching tactic mid game and whatnot. This is what happened: Rohr officially started with 3-5-2, at least, that is the formation he submitted to fifa. Then, he tried to play a fast one on Iceland by 4-2-3-1 switch (it's not unheard of, many coaches do this all the time). I noticed. because we couldn't utilize the wing play as we would have on 3-5-2, and the midfield looked over-crowded, and the 4 man defense is unmistakable. Then, later in the 2nd half, he finally applied the official formation and tactics. Don't tell me you know more than the professional analysts working for SuperSports or someone that tweak with tactics and formation on football simulation platform like FIFA 18.


This type of statistics don't tell the whole story, so using them as a cornerstone of your argumentation is a bad idea. Having a knowledge of tactics and formation is very useful here because, you can tell exactly what is going on in the field of play without having to consult a website for some bogus stats.