The Official Adam Pascal Love Thread, part ten- Page 122

[Chloe]

Posted: 6/30/06 at 12:29am

Norber Leo Butz is on Law & Order on USA right now.

[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 6/30/06 at 12:30am

Yeah, that was me. I commented to her on AIM that I was shamefully not as familiar with Adam Pascal Online as I should be and sort of wished that there was a direct link. But then, to my defense, realized that that was horrifically lazy and looked them up myself.

Anyway, thanks for directing me to that interview. I love that he obviously has specific book ideas for Chess. Hopefully someone asks him about it in more detail sometime.

Posted: 6/30/06 at 12:34am

LOL, Ashley. You sound so penitent! We love you anyway.

I'll totally ask about Chess book ideas if I ever get the chance, although Adam seems like the type who probably already forgot them.
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[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 6/30/06 at 12:38am

Actually, I bet it would be a really great thing to ask him about. I'm sure he gets comments about Rent (obviously)/Aida/Cabaret much more often than Chess. He seems to have really loved the show, too.

[Chloe]

Posted: 6/30/06 at 12:39am

Possibly he's forgotten, but it seems like he's given it a certain amount of thought.

This is really late, but I just remembered that one slightly disconcerting thing about listening to The Last 5 Years was that Norbert sounded so much like Anthony to me at first. Then I realized that it was partly because they're both midwestern and have similar hard midwestern "r"s. It's kind of funny that both these midwesterners were cast as Jewish New Yorkers.
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Posted: 6/30/06 at 12:42am

No, keep the Last 5 Years discussion coming! Anyway, I never really made that connection before, but you have a point. I think that their voices have very different qualities to them, but you're right in that their pronunication is similar.

... This all reminds me of going to the College of William and Mary and people poking fun at my very midwestern accent. Heh.
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[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 6/30/06 at 12:51am

Aw, midwestern accents are fun. I have a southern accent, but it typically only comes out around other people that have it. Does the strength of one's accent have anything to do with the amount of tv/movies you were exposed to as a child? I've wondered about that, since most everyone on tv has kind of the generalized American accent.

Anyway, I hadn't noticed that about Norbert and Anthony, but I'll look out for it.
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[Chloe]

Posted: 6/30/06 at 12:52am

i grew up in Illinois myself, but I don't think my accent is particularly strong, maybe because my parents weren't from there. I do recognize it very easily though.

Posted: 6/30/06 at 1:05am

Does the strength of one's accent have anything to do with the amount of tv/movies you were exposed to as a child?

That's a really interesting thought. My assumption would be that unless the child was exposed to just an ungodly amount of TV/movies, the sheer amount of exposure to "normal" people around them would outweigh the child's exposure to the standard TV/movies accent. However, knowing the amount of TV some kids watch, I wouldn't be surprised to see it having some sort of an impact. I wonder if there's been a study on this. It seems like something that would be quite difficult to both track and measure.

I'm SO curious to hear everyone's voice on here! I always kind of imagine voices for people and find out that I'm so off. Just to keep this somewhat on-topic (not that it matters, really), when I first heard Cybele talk on Martha Stewart, I was kind of taken aback. In a good way.

[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 6/30/06 at 1:12am

That's true, Lexi. I was just thinking about it in regards to one of my friends, though, who lives near me but a little more out in the country, and when she was younger, since they were more isolated and didn't have cable, she heard that accent more than most others, and it stuck more. (Woah, run-on sentence.)

I'm curious to hear people's voices, too! I try not to form too specific an image of what someone onine would be like in person, but I think it happens unconsciously anyway.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 6/30/06 at 1:14am

Um, I watched Mary Poppins every day as a child and started speaking in a British accent. But I was like 3-4 years old. :-P

My roommate freshman year and a bunch of my friends were from the Chicago suburbs and the combined effect of that and all the Long Island students at school have forever messed up my accent. Vowels are the worst, I randomly slip up with certain words. I had just returned from NC before I went to school as well, so I had a Southern accent leftover (my entire family picks up accents there) and all these Long Island/Chicago guys were like "Wow, don't lose it, it's hot!" So much for that. But I agree Ash, I don't normally have an accent, but Southern accents, I pick up immediately if people around me are speaking with them.

If that didn't make sense, I'm sorry- I'm totally out of it.

Posted: 6/30/06 at 1:19am

I'm curious to hear people's voices, too! I try not to form too specific an image of what someone onine would be like in person, but I think it happens unconsciously anyway.

Okay everyone, come clean, what do I sound like? :P

Heh, skittles, EVERYONE thinks they don't have an accent! I didn't think I had one either until others made fun of my midwestern vowels.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 6/30/06 at 1:22am

I meant I don't normally have a strong Southern accent.

Some of y'all have heard me briefly at a certain event involved a certain non-Adam Rent OBC member...*cough*

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[Fantabulous428]

Posted: 6/30/06 at 1:22am

I didn't think I had any accent until I started going away for the summers and people kept laughing at the way I said words like "long", "class", and "coffee". I guess I sound more from New York than I think I do.

And Lexi, you sound very....perky?

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Posted: 6/30/06 at 1:27am

Hee, skittles. I like the "y'all" in your post.

Wow, Fantab lives! Anyway, I've always thought of you as sounding really warm and friendly.

Aw, group hug, people!

[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 6/30/06 at 1:30am

Fantab does sound very warm and friendly. Lexi, I totally didn't think about the fact that you'd have a midwestern accent until you mentioned it, although of course you would.

i say y'all, but I go into phases where I either say it often or don't at all.

[Fantabulous428]

Posted: 6/30/06 at 1:31am

I've been reading. I just haven't had the energy to join the more serious conversation. Call me lazy.

Posted: 6/30/06 at 1:32am

I don't think I've ever uttered the word (?) "y'all" in my life.

Okay... now just once. Just to try it.

[Fantabulous428]

Posted: 6/30/06 at 1:36am

Aww, I sound warm and friendly? *hugs*

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 6/30/06 at 1:43am

That's because you ARE warm and friendly!

Hee, Lexi, I typed that at first, then realized the irony of it in the context of my post, so I intentionally didn't change it. I do use it from time to time. It's a contraction.

[CanadianSnowbird]

Posted: 6/30/06 at 6:23am

Quickly, before work. Skittles, from what I've heard of you, to me you don't have an accent. So for some reason I expected that no one had an accent. I don't know about you Fantab, but Emcee has an accent, which for some reason totally caught me off guard.

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[Amber_C2003]

Posted: 6/30/06 at 10:37am

Everyone should say y'all...just just an all encompassing word...works in so many situations...

When I was little I had a serious southern accent (stupid Texas and Louisiana!)...luckily I've grown out of the majority of it...occasionally it sneaks up on me though.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 6/30/06 at 10:41am

I say it. I'm from New York. I say it online FAR more than in person.... I've only said it in person like twice. But yeah.

[picturetaker9211]

Posted: 6/30/06 at 5:20pm

I don't think I have an accent of any sort, maybe. I mean when I'm in different situations, My voice, words, or sometimes accents change.Like when I'm around my camp friends, I usually talk more slang-ly & my words are different. I usually talk very preppy & proper English. I squeal & giggle a lot more often.

I've always imagined you all sounding very friendly & warm, with New York accents. Except for Sarah. I just assumed most of you guys were from NY.

[xM3L24x]

Posted: 6/30/06 at 5:25pm

Everybody has an accent.