XPost: rec.arts.drwho 
 From: glyn.kennington@ox.spam.compsoc.net 
  
 Ryan P.  announced: 
 >  jon wrote: 
 > > One criticism I read years ago about Doctor Who, from an American was 
 > > that all the aliens had British accents which he found weird, I suppose 
 > > American accents would have been ok. 
 > > 
 > 
 >    Didn't that happen regularly in Star Trek: TNG? 
 > 
 >    A cultured British accent doesn't bother me one bit.  I quite enjoy 
 >  it, actually.  Its whne you get do the more common (I suppose its common 
 >  anyway) person's accent, that it gets a bit difficult to understand. 
 > 
 >    I think its the glottal stops and the dropping of parts of words. 
 >  That makes it less appealing to the "masses." 
  
 It's kind of ironic that a "common" accent is harder for the "masses" to 
 understand... 
  
 How well received (if you'll pardon the pun) is Daphne's pronunciation 
 in Frasier?  To me, it sounds like a slightly sanitised version of an 
 unplaceable northern accent, but I've never worked out what it must 
 sound like to the US audience. 
  
 Glyn 
  
 -- 
 Glyn Kennington - Opinionated elitist and part-time grammar nitpicker 
  
 it's: abbreviation for "it is";  its: belonging to it (cf. his, hers) 
 Plurals don't need apostrophes, except to indicate possession. 
  
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