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Hi, everybody.
I asked this question once a long time ago on the DC board, so those of you who've already heard it please bear [sp?] with me. Anyway my question to those of you who haven't heard it before is: when you read the Legion, in your own mind, do the characters speak in the same accent that prevails in the region you are from (eg. if you're from the southern U.S., do you read / hear them speaking with a southern drawl, or if you're an Aussie, do they have an Aussie accent, etc)?
Just wondering, because the first time I asked this I got some very interesting answers.
For my part, I "hear" them speaking with fairly flat, generic English North American accents. The only acception with this was in the Bierbaum days when they had some of the characters saying "s'okay" a lot. I tend to associate this verbal mannerism with Utah and some of the more ruralistic [sp?] American states for some reason, so at that time, I used to imagine the characters as having, shall we say, "Utah-esque" accents.
Anyway, that's my opinion on the matter. What are yours?
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There's another thread on Legionnaire accents here.
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I think I usually "hear" the Legionnaires as generic midwest American English speakers unless there is something about their written words that provides another impression. For example, if a character is depicted saying "youse guys" or "y'all" I would hear them as being from the Bronx or the South etc. It really depends on the scripters choice of words for me.
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My experiences echo Vee's on this one.
It definitely depends on the writer. Like with Gambit's speech patterns, for example, I get the distinct impression of someone pretending to be Cajun.
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Ditto. Generic North American, generally, unless written otherwise. The two Khund assassins from v4 #2 I heard as upper-crust British, tho. Probably the politeness.
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I think I just realised that when I'm reading them, the girls have American accents, the guys kinda generic mild British/Aussie ones. The old Colossal Boy I used to read with a harsh American accent, while Star Boy I always read with an Aussie one, and saw Xanthu as a kind of analogue to Australia (boy did that come true when it was rendered into a desert by the Roboticans!).
Brainiac 5 sounds the most British of all in my imagination. Utterly withering in his delivery.
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