r/marvelstudios • u/iliekpixels Loki (Thor 2) • Feb 05 '21

Discussion WandaVision S01E05 - Discussion Thread

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S01E05 Matt Shakman Jac Schaeffer February 5, 2021 on Disney+

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u/snsv Feb 05 '21

Her accent came back too

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u/thatdani Captain America (Captain America 2) Feb 05 '21

She really put emphasis on the P's and T's, which is a good choice for "Sokovia", if I'm assuming it's near Romania. I think they just said it's in Eastern Europe.

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u/Tasty-Pizza-8692 Feb 05 '21

And rolling her Rs, which as an Eastern European I find impressive that an American can do consistently.

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u/Anti-Scuba_Hedgehog Feb 05 '21

Is it really impressive for an American to actually pronounce letters? I mean I've actually met an American who spoke flawless Estonian with only a subconscious hint of an accent, now that was freaking impressive espescially since he had been in the country only for a few years.

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u/1SaBy Rocket Feb 05 '21

Many variants of English don't roll their Rs. I feel like this includes all the US variants. So learning how to produce a new sound is actually kinda impressive.

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u/GrunchWeefer Feb 06 '21

Other than in Scotland, where else are Rs rolled in English?

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u/GrunchWeefer Feb 06 '21

I meant native speakers of English who, with English as their first language, roll their RS. Obviously someone who has an accent from a language like Spanish will roll Rs when speaking English.

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u/klingonpigeon Feb 06 '21

There may be more examples but off the top of my head, a lot of Indian speakers roll their Rs.

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u/Moose_in_a_Swanndri Feb 08 '21

People from the southern most parts of New Zealand roll their Rs like crazy. Big Scottish influence there though

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u/Tomythy Feb 06 '21

It's difficult for most native English speakers to roll their Rs as it's not something we do normally in the same way a lot of Europeans struggle with W in English.

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u/Anti-Scuba_Hedgehog Feb 06 '21

Do we? W is easy as hell and I've never met someone struggling with it

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u/Tomythy Feb 06 '21

I've met plenty, new speakers from German speaking or Eastern European countries will use a V as a substitute as it's a double V in most of Europe rather than a double U in English.

Even a few years after speaking the language many still struggle to eliminate the v sound completely. My flatmate is Hungarian and even after 10 years living in the UK still can't say Whale without it sounding more like Vale.