my week at the movies: nothing
I’m in England. I’m too busy sitting in pubs and flirting with bartenders with cute accents to go to the movies.
Although... I might try to see either Creation or Dorian Gray, which are new in theaters here. You’ll hear about that if I do.
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Creation
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(links here are good for finding recent posts, but will not be fully functional till I finish tagging 11 years worth of reviews and blog entries; I'll post a notice when tagging is done)
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comments
posted by Anonymous (Tue Sep 29 09, 2:09PM)
Please don't call our accent 'cute' - American's often say it and we tend to find it patronising. . .
posted by Accounting Ninja (Tue Sep 29 09, 2:24PM)
She said the bartenders had cute accents. She didn't say Brit accents are wholesale adorable. We can't even 100% assume the bartenders were British. Maybe they had Scottish accents, or something else.
Anyway, better to have your accent thought of as "cute" than "stupid and uneducated" (like a lot of American accents)
posted by Tonio Kruger (Tue Sep 29 09, 9:42PM)
And while you're at it, please stop talking about how smart and handsome English men are, MaryAnn. British modesty can only take so much...
posted by Kim (Thu Oct 01 09, 1:33AM)
I reckon I can mediate a little - there's a big difference in my experience between the English usage of 'cute' and the American usage. Americans seem to use it as 'sexy', y'know - cute boys, cute dress etc. English usage of cute is restricted to puppies and kittens and occasionally small children - we only really use it for small things that can't express themselves all that well.
The Scots and the Welsh have the same usage as us English people.