Boston English
Somewhere in Shanghai, a class of kindergarteners is going "Yooouk!" and doing the Gronkowski Spike
By adamg - 1/29/12 - 10:54 pmPut some ear buds in if you watch this at work.
Via Boston Reddit.
A Dot rat explains being a Dot rat
By adamg - 9/28/11 - 8:40 amMeet George the Dot rat. No word if he know Spikey Em the Dot rat.
You can take the boy out of Boston, but ...
By adamg - 4/27/11 - 5:52 amRobert Corry moved away almost a decade ago and finds himself increasingly drawn to the accent he once rejected - even to the point of taunting his young son, who has a Philadelphia accent. Of course, he realizes that's mean:
So tonight, when everyone's asleep, I'm going to kneel down next to his crib and tell him that I love the way he speaks. I'll pat his sleeping head, blink away a tear and turn out the light.
Then, under cover of darkness, in one final act of nerdy, passive aggressive rebellion, I'll find his set of wooden alphabet blocks and remove all the R's, because where I come from, they're optional.
Via Reddit Boston.
Class promises to teach local actors how to lose their Boston accents
By adamg - 11/14/10 - 5:51 pmIf only local faves Matt Damon and Ben Affleck had taken this course, why, they might be major stars by now.
Producer of New York TV show defends worst attempt ever at Boston accent as authentic
By adamg - 1/26/10 - 8:57 pmI believe the word they use in New York is chutzpah.
Via Carly Carioli, who doesn't believe it for a second.
Worst movie versions of a Boston accent
By adamg - 1/22/10 - 12:29 pmThe AMC Movie Blog compiles a list, unfortunately, with its own stupid headline that suggests the author is not really from Boston, either. Also, they left out Kevin Costner in that Kennedy movie.
The I-93
By adamg - 12/23/09 - 9:23 amSam Baltrusis posts a copy of the trailer for the Tom Cruise/Cameron Diaz movie, which features some cool mayhem on local highways, and includes shots of Diaz talking about her escapades on "the I-93" and Tom Cruise wearing the worst imitation of a Sox hat ever (guys, you're not in California, anymore).
Have Yourself a Wicked Hahdcaw Christmas
By adamg - 12/18/09 - 3:41 pmFrom Left Bank of the Charles (headphones on if at work, people):
English as it is spoken here
By adamg - 10/15/09 - 8:48 amTwo interesting videos: In one, Germans try to pronounce "Massachusetts" (it's an ad for a new German technical university in Karlsruhe, which Germans seem to find easier to pronounce, which makes it better than MIT; via Blogorelli). In the other, members of Red Sox Nation West out in San Francisco contribute "Pardon My Boston Accent:"
